A walk through the town…
We visited Bibleland or Holyland experience several years ago in Florida…( I think it is gone now)…walking through the narrow streets….or watching “the Chosen”, their narrow streets …or walking around the real Jerusalem, their old narrow streets …the crowds, the noise, the vendors, the running children, the mothers and dads, the religious leaders, the soldiers…just the masses…
Still reading through John…chapter 7 this time…there were people everywhere….I don’t know how they could get so much information with such crowds…or where the space was for Jesus to talk or teach…and the people sincerely wanted to here him as well as he wanted them to know Him…
He teaches at various synagogues…Capernaum for one…it wasn’t very big by today’s standards …
You’ve got a multitude of groups of people arguing over who this Man was , some for him and some against, while others are still trying to decide …what pandemonium….its no wonder he went secretly into the town before he taught…and then he goes to the temple to teach again…
I often wonder where I would have been, who I would have talked to or listened to…what would have been my response in such masses…
I think I would have liked the hillside settings better…
But, no matter where Jesus taught, in the crowds, the homes, the countryside, people were drawn to Him because he spoke words of truth, God’s words which spoke to the hearts of people…desiring that they believe in Jesus as their redeemer, their Savior, their hope, their healer…
Thank YOU….
John 7:10 However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. 11 Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”
12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.” 13 But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.
Jesus Teaches at the Festival
14 Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15 The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. 17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20 “You are demon-possessed,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”
Division Over Who Jesus Is
25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
I speak Jesus…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcmqSfr1ENY
