Sent By The Father

 John 7: 1-2, 10, 25-30

Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

7 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. ² But the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near. 

¹⁰ However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.

John 7:25-30

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.”

³⁰ At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

In this startling statement, "...but I know him because I am from him and he sent me", Jesus reveals who he is: blasphemy to the ears of his opponents for to them there was only one God, and he was not Jesus.  It took centuries for the formula, "one God in three divine persons" to take shape, and even that is something beyond our human experience or understanding.  A "mystery", we call it, and one we accept on FAITH, a stumbling block to those who do not believe, but the source of life and joy for those who do. Let us pray that our faith grow each day, especially during these days of Lent, that our lives reflect the wonder and goodness of God.

Bro Rene