Tag: John
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For you will always have the poor – 2
“For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” – John 12:1 NKJV This remark of Jesus cuts right to the quick, does it not? A sense of urgency here: the Son of Man is about to depart from the company of those the Lord came to save. An…
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For you will always have the poor
Why mention the poor? Once again, Jesus makes what appears to be an offhand remark about the poor. Jesus often criticized the leaders of Temple and Pharisees for their treatment of the poor; doesn’t this remark catch you off guard? It would be easy enough to lose the context of Jesus’ apparent ambivalence toward the…
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for it was not the season for figs – 5
The Lord vs. Kings We began this series examining an incident of the Lord Jesus cursing a fig tree. It seemed so unlike the Son of Man who would a few days later sacrifice His own blood as perfect Passover sacrifice for the sins of man. In the Beginning: It is in Eden where we…
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