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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Jesus at the Temple Festival [Part 2] Bible Verse:John 10:32-42 (ESV) "Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there." Message:
Jesus once again engages his enemies with wordplay, turning their own scripture against them. They can hardly condemn him to death because he has healed and taught; rather they seek to kill him for calling himself the son of God. But he teases them; he cites to them Scripture that calls true believers “gods.”
He actually does not say anything that is necessarily blasphemous under Jewish law. Remember, speech is not capitalized; many Bibles affect capitalization to distinguish between the Son of God, meaning Jesus, and the children of God, being all of us. But the distinction does not exist in the spoken word.
Many people in the Jewish Bible (generally speaking, the Old Testament) were consecrated by God and sent by him on some sort of mission. So neither is that outright blasphemy, as defined by the Jews.
Christ also gives them a reasonable alternative: If they do not believe him, believe in his works. There really is no reason they cannot let him live in peace, except for their pride and envy. His only crime is that he threatens the absolute authority claimed by the Pharisees. And even the Roman governor will refuse to find Jesus guilty—and the Romans were by no means hesitant to execute colonial troublemakers.
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