Some of the people who lived in Jerusalem were saying ‘Isn’t this the man they are seeking to kill?’ and ‘Look he speaks out publicly and they say nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the authorities have actually realised that this man is the Christ? But we know where this man comes from. But when the Christ comes, no-one will know where he comes from.’
Then Jesus cried out in the temple courts, teaching: ‘You know me, and where I come from. I have not come on my own authority but it is true about the one who sent me, whom you do not know. I know him, because I am from him; that one sent me.
So they sought to arrest him, and yet no-one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. In fact many of the crowd believed in him and they said ‘When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than this man has done, will he?’
Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.
George Herbert
One response to “John 7:25-31 Do you really know me?”
I think you have more than an organisational role but one of spiritual inspiration and support. How well this illustrates that the organised religon there at the time was so fixed on their views othat they were not open to changing them. They could not see beyond this to the true realisation that this human being before them and amongst them was indeed a gift to humanity and the son of God who knew intimately his father and ours.