On the contrary, they followed the Pharisees blindly in condemning, judging, and blaspheming the Lord Jesus, and even stoned Him.
They did not ponder whether there was truth in the Lord Jesus’ preaching, whether His preaching was beneficial and edifying to them, or whether His authority to perform miracles came from God. Here we can see that the Jewish people did not take the Lord’s words or work seriously. “For a good work we stone you not but for blasphemy and because that you, being a man, make yourself God” (John 10:33). Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?” (John 10:21). “These are not the words of him that has a devil. But because of listening to the rumors from the Pharisees, some Jewish people stoned the Lord Jesus and said: “He has a devil, and is mad why hear you him?” (John 10:20). In John 10, it is said that on the Sabbath day the Lord Jesus cured a blind person in the temple and testified that He Himself was the good Shepherd, the Son of God, and that His authority came from God. However, there were two kinds of people who treated the coming of the Lord Jesus differently, even after they heard the rumors and slanders.įirst of all, let’s take a look at the first kind of people. They not only didn’t accept the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus, but also deceived the Jewish people into judging and blaspheming the Lord Jesus together with them. They believed that the Lord Jesus couldn’t possibly be the Messiah because-be it the Lord Jesus’ name, His appearance, His parentage or what He had done-nothing about Him conformed to the prophecies about the Messiah in the Old Testament. However, the Pharisees could not comprehend what the Lord Jesus was doing, nor did they think that was God’s deeds. Now let’s study the Bible together, and see during the period of the Lord Jesus’ work which people accepted the Lord Jesus with a pure heart and which people lost the salvation of the Lord because they didn’t have a pure heart.Īt that time, the Lord Jesus preached in many places to spread the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, and He also performed a lot of miracles. What does it mean to be the pure in heart? Why should we be pure in heart? What should we do to be counted as people who are pure in heart? These questions are all very important to us, because only when we act as people with pure hearts, can we welcome the Lord’s return, see Him and hear His voice in the last days, and thus have the opportunity to be saved by Him. “ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
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