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The Division in the Jews Continues – Some Still Refuse to Believe
The Division in the Jews Continues – Some Still Refuse to Believe
Over the past few days, we have been looking at the attempts of Jesus to get the Jews to see and understand the evidence that He is the real Good Shepherd and the Christ. He has been trying to help them to distinguish between good and evil so that they could identify the lies of
the thief who hates the sheep. Some believed Him but there were many who did not.
In spite of all of the mighty works that He had done, the doubters who thought He was a mad man had asked Him to just tell them plainly if He was the Christ. Jesus reminded them again that they
In spite of all of the mighty works that He had done, the doubters who thought He was a mad man had asked Him to just tell them plainly if He was the Christ. Jesus reminded them again that they
should believe the evidence of the work that He had done as directed by His Father. Now with eyes that refused to see, the people became enraged because He had repeatedly claimed to be the Son of God (they completely ignored the evidence of the work that He had done).
The LORD is giving all of us evidence everyday of how to distinguish truth from error so that we may choose wisely. But as it was in this situation with Him, it is our tendency to stone the messenger and to ignore the message. Notice how at the end of this exchange, the LORD
quietly slipped away and allowed them to continue to believe their folly.
Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came
(and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me,
believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” 39 Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand. - John 10:31-39
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