and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
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… At that time, the feast of dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the colonnade of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, how long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe. the question here, it might sound sincere. Oh, Jesus, are you the Christ we've been waiting for? Wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace, is that you? Just tell us so that we can follow you. But this question is not sincere. It's sinister. They're trying to trap him. They want him to say something clear so that they can kill him. Say it plainly, Jesus. why don't the Jews believe him? Why do his own people try everything possible to stop and kill him when he comes? Problems that's raised, right? The very first verses of the gospel, John 1, verse 11 says, he came to his own and his own people did not receive him. …
… deliverance that they had achieved under Judas Maccabeus. And we're told that Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch, and the Jews surrounded him and said to him, how long do you keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. An interesting charge to Jesus. When I read that, I cannot help but immediately think of a similar circumstance that happened in the sixteenth century in Germany at the Diet of Worms. I'm sure you all were snapped back to that same moment by reading this text, right? When Martin Luther was on trial for his life before the princes of the church and Charles the fifth of the Holy Roman Empire. And there at the Diet, there was a table in the middle of the hall in which all of the books of Luther were stacked up, and his interrogator demanded that he recant, and to say the words, revoco, I recant of his heretical writings. And Luther responded by saying, which writings? I've written many, many things here. …
And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. For My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and the Father are one. He who has ears to hear the word of God, let them hear. You may be seated. Let us pray. Our fathers, we consider these words from the 10th chapter of John. We pray that you would grant to us understanding of the meaning of Jesus' words, how they relate and edify His people even now. For we ask it in His name. Amen. Last week we, for the second time, considered elements of Jesus healing the man born blind. And we didn't finish chapter 9 last week, but at the very end of that chapter, leading up to what I read this morning, the following things took place. Jesus found the man who had been cast out from the presence of the Pharisees because of his testimony to Christ, and he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? …