People who lived in Jerusalem did not understand why Jesus was speaking publicly.  They knew that the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him, and so surely Jesus would know as well.  He seemed to be immune from arrest.  “Perhaps,” they said, “our leaders have decided that this is the Messiah.”  They brought up the idea [...]

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About six months have passed between the events of chapter six and the events of chapter seven.  The time for the Feast of Tabernacles is at hand.  In this chapter, Jesus travels to Jerusalem and finds hostility and misunderstanding there. His brothers were convinced that he is a powerful person, and they believed that he [...]

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It is not possible to be an uncommitted follower of Jesus Christ.  Either you are for him or you are against him (Luke 11:23).  There is no middle ground.  Jesus has just proclaimed to be a suffering Messiah who would die on behalf of his people.  Though the crowd might not have understood everything that [...]

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