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Q&A on repartee and innuendos

April 17th, 2015

Laurel J. Davis
April 16, 2015

I’d love your thoughts on this question, thanks!:

What are good Christian repartee or any example/s of Christian repartee from the Bible? Is there a list? I want to know how to use innuendos or repartee the proper way as a Christian.

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  • Jeff Laird Jesus’ use of the same word in three different senses (pneuma) in John 3 comes to mind.
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  • Tim White Repartee’s are a personal thing. The best advice is to speak the truth in love.
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  • Jeff Laird Or, in John 1:47, when He makes a wisecrack about Nathanael being a “true Israelite, in whom there is no guile”, joking about Israelites being the people of Jacob, a habitual liar.
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  • Ed Chait Jeff, out of curiosity over your comment on John 1:47, I read several commentaries and they don’t view Jesus’ comments about Nathanael as being tongue in cheek. This is from Barnes:

    “No guile – No deceit, no fraud, no hypocrisy. He is really what he     professes to be – a Jew, a descendant of the patriarch Jacob, fearing and serving God. He makes no profession which he does not live up to. He does not say that Nathanael was without guilt or sin, but that he had no disguise, no trick, no deceit – he was sincere and upright. This was a most honorable testimony. How happy would it be if he, who knows the hearts of all as he did that of Nathanael, could bear the same testimony of all who profess the religion of the gospel!”
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  • Jeff Laird I think the repartee comes because of what Nathanael said about Jesus which prompted His remark: “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Jesus seems to be wryly responding to Nathanael’s assumption that Jesus (A Nazarite) must be a throwaway bumpkin by quipping about Nathanael being an honest descendant of an infamous liar.
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  • Ed Chait Gotcha, thanks!

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