Pay Attention To What Is Actually Happening

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John 10:31-42

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. 40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 41 And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42 And many believed in him there.

 
 

The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy for calling Himself the Son of God, but He makes the point that the Old Testament scriptures speak of spiritual beings called “gods” (see Psalm 82), so why should they be scandalized by the idea of the Son of God?

Then, once again, He makes the point He keeps making: forget about titles, pay attention to works. This makes them angry and Jesus has to escape to the wilderness.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The people remark: “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true” (v. 41). Once again, we have the basic idea: pay attention to what is actually happening and make your judgments accordingly. This principle applies to all of life.