John 7:1-13
The Feast and Jesus (1-2)
Chapter 6 took place during the Jewish feast called Passover. This is in the spring time. Chapter 7 takes place 6 months later in the fall during the feast of Tabernacles (Booths, Ingathering). It is the greatest of all 7 feasts on the Jewish calendar. This was one of the 3 major feasts that each adult male Jew was required to be in Jerusalem for each year. The Feast of Tabernacles is important for reasons concerning the past, present and future:
First, the Feast of Tabernacles was a reminder of to the Israelites of their past - how God provided for and protected the Israelites while He led them in the wilderness. During that time, the Israelites lived in little tabernacles, or booths, or huts made of tree branches. In order to commemorate that time, the Israelites were commanded by God to observe this Feast each year and build those same little tabernacles and live and worship God in them for an entire week. So that’s why throughout Israel’s history, at the Succoth, or, the Feast of Tabernacles, you will see little huts on houses, in the streets, in the public squares and all over the place in Jerusalem.
The second reason this is an important feast is because it is to give thanks for God’s current provision. The Feast of Tabernacles is also known as the Feast of Ingathering, and it takes place right after the harvest is over. This Feast is a great time of joy and giving thanks to God.
Lastly, the reason this Feast is important is that it points to the future. According to the OT prophet Zechariah, this Feast will be observed by all nations during Jesus Christ’s 1000 year kingdom on earth. The next event on God’s timetable is the Rapture of the Church. Then there will be 7 years of Tribulation upon the earth. Immediately after that 7 years Jesus will return to the earth. Then He will begin His 1000 year kingdom on the earth.
During that 1,000 years, Zechariah 14:16-19 says this, “Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”
This Feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, will be celebrated by all nations when Jesus Christ reigns as King over the entire earth. For 1,000 years, all nations will be required to come to Jerusalem to worship Jesus Christ as the King at this Feast.
Now think about that as we go through chapter 7. In chapter 7 it is the fall, the harvest is in, all adult male Jews are in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles and give thanks to God. Their tabernacles are all prepared, and they are ready to worship and remember how their ancestors lived in little huts in the wilderness as God provided for them then too. And here comes Jesus, the very God whom they are there to worship veiled in flesh, in their midst, and they hate Him. He is hated during the Feast now, but, He will be worshipped at this Feast when He reigns as King over the entire earth for 1,000 years.
In chapter 6 Jesus was in the height of His ministry and we saw how those thousands of disciples in Capernaum abandoned Him. From here on out we’re going to see the increasing anger and attempted attacks on Jesus. The hateful hostility will grow more and more towards Him until finally it results in them crucifying Him in chapter 19. People aren’t just walking away like in chapter 6, now they are working to assassinate Him.
Notice that in chapter 6 it was in a synagogue that Jesus was abandoned – the place of religion for Jews. Now, notice chapter 7 verse 1, He was purposely staying in Galilee and not going into Judea because there they wanted to kill Him. He was staying away from Jerusalem – the Jewish center of all life and worship. We’re beginning to see what John mentioned in chapter 1:11, “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.”
They hated Him. Specifically, they were set off because of the last time He was in Jerusalem back in chapter 5. In chapter 5 He did two things that enraged the Jews: He healed someone on the Sabbath, and, He claimed to be equal with God. Ever since then His welcome had been worn out and during chapter 6 He spent His time north in Galilee.
The Family of Jesus (v 3-5)
The Second section we’ll call the Family of Jesus. Notice verses 3-5, “Jesus’ brothers said to him, ‘You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.’ For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.”
Mark chapter 6 tells us that Jesus had 4 other brothers. These are the younger brothers of Jesus that were born to Mary and Joseph. Their problem was simple: they did not believe in Him. And because they did not believe in Him they made two mistakes.
First, they began telling Jesus what to do. Everyone will be in Judea in Jerusalem for the biggest Feast of the year. Now is the perfect time to show yourself to the world. If you want to get back that big crowd you had in chapter 6 in Capernaum then do these things miracles your doing at the Feast where everyone will be.
When you don’t believe in Jesus you don’t submit to Him and His plans. When you don’t believe in Him you try to make Him submit to you. When you don’t believe in Jesus you’re more interested in what you want and seeing things go how you want them to go.
This isn’t the first time someone tries to tell Jesus what to do. In Matthew 16, it’s not his brothers, but, Peter himself who makes the mistake of telling Jesus what to do. Actually, Peter tells Jesus what Jesus won’t do. After Jesus tells His disciples that He must suffer many things from the Jewish religious leaders, be killed, and then raised up on the third day, Peter has heard enough.
Verse 22 says, “Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, ‘Never Lord! This shall never happen to you!” Brace yourself. Then Jesus responds to Him and says in verse 23, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Peter gets a sharp rebuke from Jesus because he did not have in mind the things of God. Jesus’ brothers do not have in mind the things of God.
Jesus was focused on the timetable that His Father had for Him, not what others had for Him. Which is the second point: Peter, and Jesus’ brothers had misconceptions about Jesus’ mission. He came to save sinners which required He go to the cross which required that He be hated enough to be sent to the cross. Acts 2:23 says that God directed this to happen. “This man (Jesus) was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing Him to a cross.” That’s why Jesus left the glory He had with the Father before the beginning of the world, He emptied Himself of His glory and set aside His rights as God and humbled Himself according to Philippians 2 and became a man that He might offer His human body up to death for our sins. That is why He came.
But things were happening according to God’s timetable and no one elses. He says in verse 6, “My hour has not yet come”, and He says that multiple times several in the Gospels. He first used it in John in chapter 2:4 when He was at a wedding and His mother told Him they had run out of wine – implying He should do something. He told His mother His hour had not yet come. Here in chapter 7 we see the phrase comes up again. In verse 6 and then in verse 30 where they try to seize Jesus but his time had not yet come. All throughout the Gospels we see that Jesus is on God’s timing and on God’s plan, and no one else’s.
Jesus’ real family is not biological, but, spiritual. In Mathew 12 Jesus is preaching to a packed crowd in someone’s house. His mother and brothers come to see Him and they can’t get in because it’s so crowded. Someone yells to Jesus that His family is there and Jesus says in verse 48, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” And then pointing to His disciples , he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” The only way to be related to Jesus is to believe in Jesus. They may have had the same mother, but, they didn’t have the same Father. They may have grown up with Him, but, they didn’t get Him.
This brings up an important point: Growing up with Jesus isn’t the same as believing in Jesus. His brothers grew up with Him, they saw Him at all the get-togethers and the holidays. They had an advantage in that they watched Him their whole lives and yet verse 5 says they didn’t believe in Him.
You may have grown up in the Church, you may have grown up in a Christian home – you may be growing up in one now. But, growing up with Jesus is not the same as believing in Jesus. Some people will tell you that if you’re parents are saved, then, since you’re their children, you are saved too. Don’t you believe it. You may be covered under your parents insurance but you’re not covered under their salvation. You have to apply yourself. You have to believe for yourself. No one else can do it for you.
Are you in the family? Jesus real brothers and sisters are those who do His Father’s will. What is God’s will? To believe in His Son, Jesus Christ (John 6:29). When you believe in God’s Son, you are given the right to become a child of God (John 1:11).
The Focus of Jesus (v. 6-10)
The third section is called the Focus of Jesus. Notice verses 6-10, “Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. 8 You go to the festival. I am not[a] going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”
Jesus is hated by the world because He came to tell the world that it is evil. Let’s bring this down to our level: He came into your world and mine to tell you and me that we are evil. The rest of the world will tell us that we are basically good but we make mistakes once in a while. Jesus is clear: we are evil. Listen, if you haven’t accepted that then you haven’t accepted the cross. Why would you believe Jesus died for your evil sins if you didn’t think you were evil?
So Jesus is telling the world that is evil and it’s hurting His image. His miracles were the crowd pleaser. His brothers wanted Him to do miracles at the Feast but Jesus doesn’t do any in chapter 7. He doesn’t do any in chapter 8 either. He faithfully focuses on the purpose for which His Father sent Him and doesn’t stumble from the input of others. Jesus is going to do things His Father’s way and in His Father’s time.
So why doesn’t Jesus Compare with John 14:21-22 “21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
Jesus only reveals Himself to His true disciples. His first miracle was only for His disciples. His private teachings were only for His disciples. His Transfiguration was only for His disciples. Chapters 13-16 are Jesus private teachings to His disciples. After He was raised from the dead He appeared only to His disciples. Speaking of His 2nd Coming, 2 Thess 1:10 says, “On the day He comes He will be glorified in His holy people and He will be marveled at among all those who have believed in Him.” The proof that you love Jesus and that you know Him is that you obey Him. Jesus only shows Himself to those who believe in Him and keep His commands. Really and intimately knowing Him comes by obeying Him.
His brothers wanted Him to do miracles at the Feast but Jesus doesn’t do any in chapter 7. He doesn’t do any in chapter 8 either. He faithfully focuses on the purpose for which His Father sent Him and doesn’t stumble from the input of others.
The Fascination with Jesus (v. 11-13)
The last section is the Fascination with Jesus. Notice verses 11-13, “Now at the Feast, the Jews were watching for Him and asking, ‘Where is that man?’ Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about Him. Some said, ‘He is a good man.’ Others replied, ‘No, He deceives the people.’ But no one would say anything publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.”
Jesus has stirred up the whole nation of Israel, and, at the greatest Feast of the year He is the great buzz among the people. But no one is saying anything publicly about Him because they feared the religious leaders. They knew the leaders were looking to kill Jesus and they didn’t want to say anything that would get them in trouble. That’s the difference between a fascination with Jesus and being faithful to Jesus: you’re not afraid of identifying with Him no matter what the cost.
The question in these verses is “who is that man?” This is the greatest question in the history of mankind. This is the most important question before every man or woman. In conversations I like to ask people “What is the most important decision you think you will ever have to make?” And people give answers like, “What college I go to” or “What career I choose”. Some people say “Who I marry”. Those are big decisions, but, they are nothing compared to the decision someone makes about “Who is Jesus Christ?” If you decide right, you will be forgiven of your sins and have the hope of eternal life. John says in chapter 20:31, “I write these things so that you may know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have eternal life.”
John lists two answers that the crowds were giving. Both lead to hell. First is that He was a good man, verse 12. This is a bad answer. This answer is inadequate to identify Jesus. It isn’t enough because Jesus is far more than a good man - He is far more than just a man. He is the eternal Word who was with God in the beginning and was God, who became a human being. He is the Living Son of God and sits at the right hand of God Most High. His name is above every name and He will be worshipped and He will have a kingdom that will never, ever end. He’s more than just a good man.
Secondly, the crowds say He’s a deceiver. If you don’t believe the words that Jesus spoke then you are rejecting the words of God. Jesus spoke only what His Father told Him to speak. He spoke truth. He is the way, the TRUTH, and the life (John 14:6). He is the Faithful Witness (Revelation 1:5). No lie was found in His mouth ever (Isaiah 53:9). To call Jesus a liar is to call the One who is truth incarnate, truth in the flesh, a lie.
The Feast and Jesus (1-2)
Chapter 6 took place during the Jewish feast called Passover. This is in the spring time. Chapter 7 takes place 6 months later in the fall during the feast of Tabernacles (Booths, Ingathering). It is the greatest of all 7 feasts on the Jewish calendar. This was one of the 3 major feasts that each adult male Jew was required to be in Jerusalem for each year. The Feast of Tabernacles is important for reasons concerning the past, present and future:
First, the Feast of Tabernacles was a reminder of to the Israelites of their past - how God provided for and protected the Israelites while He led them in the wilderness. During that time, the Israelites lived in little tabernacles, or booths, or huts made of tree branches. In order to commemorate that time, the Israelites were commanded by God to observe this Feast each year and build those same little tabernacles and live and worship God in them for an entire week. So that’s why throughout Israel’s history, at the Succoth, or, the Feast of Tabernacles, you will see little huts on houses, in the streets, in the public squares and all over the place in Jerusalem.
The second reason this is an important feast is because it is to give thanks for God’s current provision. The Feast of Tabernacles is also known as the Feast of Ingathering, and it takes place right after the harvest is over. This Feast is a great time of joy and giving thanks to God.
Lastly, the reason this Feast is important is that it points to the future. According to the OT prophet Zechariah, this Feast will be observed by all nations during Jesus Christ’s 1000 year kingdom on earth. The next event on God’s timetable is the Rapture of the Church. Then there will be 7 years of Tribulation upon the earth. Immediately after that 7 years Jesus will return to the earth. Then He will begin His 1000 year kingdom on the earth.
During that 1,000 years, Zechariah 14:16-19 says this, “Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”
This Feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, will be celebrated by all nations when Jesus Christ reigns as King over the entire earth. For 1,000 years, all nations will be required to come to Jerusalem to worship Jesus Christ as the King at this Feast.
Now think about that as we go through chapter 7. In chapter 7 it is the fall, the harvest is in, all adult male Jews are in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles and give thanks to God. Their tabernacles are all prepared, and they are ready to worship and remember how their ancestors lived in little huts in the wilderness as God provided for them then too. And here comes Jesus, the very God whom they are there to worship veiled in flesh, in their midst, and they hate Him. He is hated during the Feast now, but, He will be worshipped at this Feast when He reigns as King over the entire earth for 1,000 years.
In chapter 6 Jesus was in the height of His ministry and we saw how those thousands of disciples in Capernaum abandoned Him. From here on out we’re going to see the increasing anger and attempted attacks on Jesus. The hateful hostility will grow more and more towards Him until finally it results in them crucifying Him in chapter 19. People aren’t just walking away like in chapter 6, now they are working to assassinate Him.
Notice that in chapter 6 it was in a synagogue that Jesus was abandoned – the place of religion for Jews. Now, notice chapter 7 verse 1, He was purposely staying in Galilee and not going into Judea because there they wanted to kill Him. He was staying away from Jerusalem – the Jewish center of all life and worship. We’re beginning to see what John mentioned in chapter 1:11, “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.”
They hated Him. Specifically, they were set off because of the last time He was in Jerusalem back in chapter 5. In chapter 5 He did two things that enraged the Jews: He healed someone on the Sabbath, and, He claimed to be equal with God. Ever since then His welcome had been worn out and during chapter 6 He spent His time north in Galilee.
The Family of Jesus (v 3-5)
The Second section we’ll call the Family of Jesus. Notice verses 3-5, “Jesus’ brothers said to him, ‘You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.’ For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.”
Mark chapter 6 tells us that Jesus had 4 other brothers. These are the younger brothers of Jesus that were born to Mary and Joseph. Their problem was simple: they did not believe in Him. And because they did not believe in Him they made two mistakes.
First, they began telling Jesus what to do. Everyone will be in Judea in Jerusalem for the biggest Feast of the year. Now is the perfect time to show yourself to the world. If you want to get back that big crowd you had in chapter 6 in Capernaum then do these things miracles your doing at the Feast where everyone will be.
When you don’t believe in Jesus you don’t submit to Him and His plans. When you don’t believe in Him you try to make Him submit to you. When you don’t believe in Jesus you’re more interested in what you want and seeing things go how you want them to go.
This isn’t the first time someone tries to tell Jesus what to do. In Matthew 16, it’s not his brothers, but, Peter himself who makes the mistake of telling Jesus what to do. Actually, Peter tells Jesus what Jesus won’t do. After Jesus tells His disciples that He must suffer many things from the Jewish religious leaders, be killed, and then raised up on the third day, Peter has heard enough.
Verse 22 says, “Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, ‘Never Lord! This shall never happen to you!” Brace yourself. Then Jesus responds to Him and says in verse 23, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Peter gets a sharp rebuke from Jesus because he did not have in mind the things of God. Jesus’ brothers do not have in mind the things of God.
Jesus was focused on the timetable that His Father had for Him, not what others had for Him. Which is the second point: Peter, and Jesus’ brothers had misconceptions about Jesus’ mission. He came to save sinners which required He go to the cross which required that He be hated enough to be sent to the cross. Acts 2:23 says that God directed this to happen. “This man (Jesus) was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing Him to a cross.” That’s why Jesus left the glory He had with the Father before the beginning of the world, He emptied Himself of His glory and set aside His rights as God and humbled Himself according to Philippians 2 and became a man that He might offer His human body up to death for our sins. That is why He came.
But things were happening according to God’s timetable and no one elses. He says in verse 6, “My hour has not yet come”, and He says that multiple times several in the Gospels. He first used it in John in chapter 2:4 when He was at a wedding and His mother told Him they had run out of wine – implying He should do something. He told His mother His hour had not yet come. Here in chapter 7 we see the phrase comes up again. In verse 6 and then in verse 30 where they try to seize Jesus but his time had not yet come. All throughout the Gospels we see that Jesus is on God’s timing and on God’s plan, and no one else’s.
Jesus’ real family is not biological, but, spiritual. In Mathew 12 Jesus is preaching to a packed crowd in someone’s house. His mother and brothers come to see Him and they can’t get in because it’s so crowded. Someone yells to Jesus that His family is there and Jesus says in verse 48, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” And then pointing to His disciples , he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” The only way to be related to Jesus is to believe in Jesus. They may have had the same mother, but, they didn’t have the same Father. They may have grown up with Him, but, they didn’t get Him.
This brings up an important point: Growing up with Jesus isn’t the same as believing in Jesus. His brothers grew up with Him, they saw Him at all the get-togethers and the holidays. They had an advantage in that they watched Him their whole lives and yet verse 5 says they didn’t believe in Him.
You may have grown up in the Church, you may have grown up in a Christian home – you may be growing up in one now. But, growing up with Jesus is not the same as believing in Jesus. Some people will tell you that if you’re parents are saved, then, since you’re their children, you are saved too. Don’t you believe it. You may be covered under your parents insurance but you’re not covered under their salvation. You have to apply yourself. You have to believe for yourself. No one else can do it for you.
Are you in the family? Jesus real brothers and sisters are those who do His Father’s will. What is God’s will? To believe in His Son, Jesus Christ (John 6:29). When you believe in God’s Son, you are given the right to become a child of God (John 1:11).
The Focus of Jesus (v. 6-10)
The third section is called the Focus of Jesus. Notice verses 6-10, “Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. 8 You go to the festival. I am not[a] going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”
Jesus is hated by the world because He came to tell the world that it is evil. Let’s bring this down to our level: He came into your world and mine to tell you and me that we are evil. The rest of the world will tell us that we are basically good but we make mistakes once in a while. Jesus is clear: we are evil. Listen, if you haven’t accepted that then you haven’t accepted the cross. Why would you believe Jesus died for your evil sins if you didn’t think you were evil?
So Jesus is telling the world that is evil and it’s hurting His image. His miracles were the crowd pleaser. His brothers wanted Him to do miracles at the Feast but Jesus doesn’t do any in chapter 7. He doesn’t do any in chapter 8 either. He faithfully focuses on the purpose for which His Father sent Him and doesn’t stumble from the input of others. Jesus is going to do things His Father’s way and in His Father’s time.
So why doesn’t Jesus Compare with John 14:21-22 “21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
Jesus only reveals Himself to His true disciples. His first miracle was only for His disciples. His private teachings were only for His disciples. His Transfiguration was only for His disciples. Chapters 13-16 are Jesus private teachings to His disciples. After He was raised from the dead He appeared only to His disciples. Speaking of His 2nd Coming, 2 Thess 1:10 says, “On the day He comes He will be glorified in His holy people and He will be marveled at among all those who have believed in Him.” The proof that you love Jesus and that you know Him is that you obey Him. Jesus only shows Himself to those who believe in Him and keep His commands. Really and intimately knowing Him comes by obeying Him.
His brothers wanted Him to do miracles at the Feast but Jesus doesn’t do any in chapter 7. He doesn’t do any in chapter 8 either. He faithfully focuses on the purpose for which His Father sent Him and doesn’t stumble from the input of others.
The Fascination with Jesus (v. 11-13)
The last section is the Fascination with Jesus. Notice verses 11-13, “Now at the Feast, the Jews were watching for Him and asking, ‘Where is that man?’ Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about Him. Some said, ‘He is a good man.’ Others replied, ‘No, He deceives the people.’ But no one would say anything publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.”
Jesus has stirred up the whole nation of Israel, and, at the greatest Feast of the year He is the great buzz among the people. But no one is saying anything publicly about Him because they feared the religious leaders. They knew the leaders were looking to kill Jesus and they didn’t want to say anything that would get them in trouble. That’s the difference between a fascination with Jesus and being faithful to Jesus: you’re not afraid of identifying with Him no matter what the cost.
The question in these verses is “who is that man?” This is the greatest question in the history of mankind. This is the most important question before every man or woman. In conversations I like to ask people “What is the most important decision you think you will ever have to make?” And people give answers like, “What college I go to” or “What career I choose”. Some people say “Who I marry”. Those are big decisions, but, they are nothing compared to the decision someone makes about “Who is Jesus Christ?” If you decide right, you will be forgiven of your sins and have the hope of eternal life. John says in chapter 20:31, “I write these things so that you may know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have eternal life.”
John lists two answers that the crowds were giving. Both lead to hell. First is that He was a good man, verse 12. This is a bad answer. This answer is inadequate to identify Jesus. It isn’t enough because Jesus is far more than a good man - He is far more than just a man. He is the eternal Word who was with God in the beginning and was God, who became a human being. He is the Living Son of God and sits at the right hand of God Most High. His name is above every name and He will be worshipped and He will have a kingdom that will never, ever end. He’s more than just a good man.
Secondly, the crowds say He’s a deceiver. If you don’t believe the words that Jesus spoke then you are rejecting the words of God. Jesus spoke only what His Father told Him to speak. He spoke truth. He is the way, the TRUTH, and the life (John 14:6). He is the Faithful Witness (Revelation 1:5). No lie was found in His mouth ever (Isaiah 53:9). To call Jesus a liar is to call the One who is truth incarnate, truth in the flesh, a lie.
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