John 7:1–2,10,25–30
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near.
But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were in secret.
Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.” Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.
REFLECTIONS:
We are to put ourselves into the story. Do we believe he is from God? One might ask, how can we know? We know because of the truth he taught that resonates within us. “Credo” from which the word creed comes, doesn’t mean “I believe intellectually” but rather “I give my heart to.” Here is pathway to faith in the Messiah. Our hearts tell us he is from the God of love. Peace, Keith
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