Mid-Pentecost; the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (54-68)
Read
Acts 14:6-18; 1 Peter 5:6-14;
John 7:14-30; Mark 6:7-13
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
In today’s Gospel we have a heated debate happening between Jesus and the Jews. All this was happening in the temple of Jerusalem in the presence of religious leaders and priests that were celebrating the great Feast of Tabernacles. In verse 28, the word rendered “cried,” implies an elevation of voice answering to the intensity of the speaker’s feeling. Here this feeling has been roused by another instance of their misapprehension, because they think of the outward appearance only, and therefore do not grasp the inner truth. They know whence He is; they had been taught that no man should know the Messiah’s origin, and therefore they think He is not the Christ. And this technical reason, the meaning of which they have never fathomed, is enough to stifle every growing conviction, and to annul the force of all His words and all His works!
Dear brother and sisters, let us always grow in our knowledge of Jesus. We might think we know who he is and what he has done for us but let that thought never stop us from discovering the mysteries and truths of our faith and grow evermore deeper in our relationship with Christ Jesus. The more we know Him the more we love Him for to truly love Him we must know Him.