
John the Baptizer’s Appearance
John the baptizer’s sudden appearance comes at a time in history when people had been back in the promised land and waiting for the Jewish Messiah to finally arrive.

John the baptizer’s sudden appearance comes at a time in history when people had been back in the promised land and waiting for the Jewish Messiah to finally arrive.

The New Testament scriptures were written to people whose entire worldview was saturated with the Hebrew scriptures.

After being asked “who is my neighbor?”, Jesus tells a story that flips the question around and makes us ask “how can I be a neighbor?”

We see suffering and instead of being moved to action by compassion for those who are in the middle of it, we are provoked on an intellectual level – like it is some kind of equation to be solved or a theory to be proved.

Could it be that the lack of information about Jesus’ early life is actually a lesson in itself – another example to imitate?

We will not just spend eternity with God in his new creation, but we will also be adopted into the family of God as sons and daughters of God himself.