Internal consistency of the Bible is it stated that his companions ever heard that Voice in the accusative case". Archer points to similar circumstances where "the crowd who heard the sound of the Father talking to the Son in John 12:28 ... perceived it only as thunder". The verse appear to place Jacob's burial in Shechem, contradicting verses in Genesis which places the patriarchs tomb in Hebron. Albert Barnes writes "the text now stands, it is an evident error." In , Judas returns the bribe Christians believe he had immorally accepted for handing over Jesus, throwing the money into the temple before hanging himself. The
Ethics in the Bible directly underlie the understanding of Jesus as the "son of David" and the messiah (the annointed king) who at some point will govern the world. Political theorist Michael Walzer says "the Bible is, above all, a religious book, but it is also a political book." There is no political theory, as such, in the Bible, however, based on "legal codes, rules for war and peace, ideas about justice and obligation, social criticism, visions of the good society, and accounts of exile and dispossession" the Bible does contain folk presuppositions of comparative politics. He goes on to say politics in the