Jesus at the Temple 12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” He said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
14 The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things He did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked Him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?” 17 And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.
Footnotes:
Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7 Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11 Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)
Dear Socrates, As you would love to learn of God, so I would prefer to wait until the time you'll finished reading the entire Bible all (I means that "do not miss any of the words" in all the pages from the first page to the last page of every book of the Bible Books set). Then, if you still want to raise again the questions you want to ask, when that time we'll talk more easily, please!
P.S: Tonight, I stay up late until past midnight is for your benefit, it's 12 33 AM here. :)
Talking about the word "beforehand" here I would like to raise my humble opinion, while that English is not my native language, but far as I understand the "beforehand" does not mean "anything it was programmed " or " imposed for one would have to do something ". It is simple for me to understand the "beforehand" has means "the foreknowledge" or "seen before".
About Judas, we cannot fully understand about, but certainly God never intended use anyone used to sacrifice for his program. God loves all people and wants everyone to live a good and happy, He also respect the freedom of every person. God does not force anyone into heaven, nor appoint anyone to hell. We are convinced that human beings are not hinder God's redemptive plan. But he will complete his program through the weakness and incompleteness of us. Suppose if Judas did not sell God, God's plan of redemption of humanity has still to be completed.
Judas had his freedom, as greedy for money so he sold Jesus. Suppose if Judas did not sell Jesus. By any way, Jesus still was arrested. And in the Bible, other events that replaces the events of Judas.
Furthermore, about Judas, we also do not know how he now, because we do not know anything about his final moments. The only thing we can know that Jesus did love him so He has to bow washing his feet, too.
Jesus sat down lower than Judas, to wash his feet, that showed us the humility and great love that Jesus gave Judas. (Though Jesus knew Judas would betray Him). It is also a chance that He gave Judas to change his minds, but Judas did not. (can be understood as Omonoountes said, "Then God lowered the branch of the tree in order to save him, but Judas" closed "his knees,"). JMHO
Thank you Wallops, you are my lovely friend, too. And thank you for your saying that I am an angel. I don't know is it am I an angel? But I can know I am a little kid of all the kids of Jesus, encluding you.
Yes Keys, that's why Jesus said, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” (Luke 12,15) And, “Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Does Jesus have ‘defects’? (This question was raised by Rev Fr John Koovakunnel, a voracious reader, speaker and theologian) Some of us may even think that it’s sacrilegious and blasphemous to even think of any ‘defects’ of Jesus. He is the Son of God. Rev Fr John says our Lord Jesus has five ‘defects’. But wait. He hastened to add: “because of these defects we are saved.”
Yes Keys, that is why Jesus gave us "the Lord's Prayer" and "the Sermon on the Mount", which is great providence and God's love for mankind, His children. God knows all, the Lord looked at the entire page off while humans call just like a ant crawling around within on only one letter.
Dear friends, As I told you in The "defects" of Jesus (part 1) that there is a person has raised defects of Jesus. So who is it? Now I would like to introduce to you some information about that person, he is St. Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
This comment is for someone on SC ( a person claiming himself as a theologian):
That is why Jesus said, 25 "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do." 27 "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." (Matthew 11, 25-27)
Yes, Dragoneer as your words "The first verse is the One That special Attention needs to see the lesson", the Words of Jesus is not any doubt, but it certainly will happen to people in one day, and when the time come to ultimately, the people are going to realize a the extraordinary reversal. But by then it will be too late because time never return. Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” (Matthew 13,9)
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard 1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Thank you Halv for your nice comment, I admire you, you did do exactly what Jesus taught.
"And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward." (Matthew 10:42)
"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." (Matthew 25:40)
Thank you Keys, Correctly as you said. And If Jesus was a prince lived in the palace and was the son of an earthly king, I never loved him. And as we are creatures, if we live in the condition of human misery, which is normal, but Jesus is God Almighty, and He spent His life's with extremely humiliation human life, that was very "weird"! And I so much love "Weird Jesus"! Thank you again.
Do you know why I Saying Jesus is "weird"? Because He inherently is God Almighty, but He did not choose to be born in splendid palaces, but His fate was selected like a the bum, and He wandered ..., and He did communicate, make friends with people who were rated as poor, bad, sinful, ... etc ... Whether whatever He was ... . I still love Him my Jesus!
Isaiah 9:6 "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Wallops, you said that you join me in that great love for him, so... can you help me to find some "defects of Jesus"? Thank you in advance for your help!
I agree with you. And... do you agree with me Jesus is the most weird character in the history of the world ever? If He's normal like everyone then I would not love Him as I've done.
We see this in memory of Jesus seems not working anymore! BUT! That thing is so much good for us because He forgot unconditionally, immediately He forget all the past of us is though good or not good when we returned. He only remembers one thing: each of us is the kid of the Father, is his brother, is His sister. So, when we came back to see Him, we're immediately re-dressed of the glory life of God. Yeah!
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RE: In Search of Truth Pt. 4
Dear Keys,Matthew 21:12-17
Jesus at the Temple
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” He said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
14 The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things He did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked Him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
17 And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.
Footnotes:
Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11
Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)