1 00:00:00,316 --> 00:00:01,350 Hey friends. Welcome back. 2 00:00:01,350 --> 00:00:02,566 Thanks for joining us again. 3 00:00:02,566 --> 00:00:04,350 As we continue through the Gospel of John. 4 00:00:04,350 --> 00:00:08,716 We're in the second chapter, the 13th verse, in an interesting passage 5 00:00:09,116 --> 00:00:12,116 and an interesting passage in John. 6 00:00:12,416 --> 00:00:16,200 I don't know whether to deal with the passage or the interesting part first. 7 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,100 Michael, I guess let's just go through. 8 00:00:18,100 --> 00:00:19,666 Let let me read it. 9 00:00:19,666 --> 00:00:21,983 I'll try to get all the way through it fairly quickly. 10 00:00:21,983 --> 00:00:24,566 It's going to be familiar to many of you, I think. 11 00:00:24,566 --> 00:00:27,566 And so we'll come back and have some discussion. 12 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,316 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 13 00:00:31,316 --> 00:00:35,250 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves and money 14 00:00:35,250 --> 00:00:39,566 changers seated at their tables, making a whip of cords. 15 00:00:39,916 --> 00:00:42,950 He drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. 16 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:46,666 He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned the tables. 17 00:00:47,216 --> 00:00:48,766 He told those who were selling the doves. 18 00:00:48,766 --> 00:00:49,800 Take these out of here. 19 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,800 Stop making my father's house a marketplace. 20 00:00:53,266 --> 00:00:56,816 The disciples remembered that it was written, zeal for your house 21 00:00:56,816 --> 00:00:58,066 will consume me. 22 00:00:58,066 --> 00:01:02,033 The Jews then said, what sign can you show for doing this? 23 00:01:02,566 --> 00:01:05,333 Jesus answered them, destroy this temple 24 00:01:05,333 --> 00:01:08,333 three days again, and I will raise it up. 25 00:01:08,550 --> 00:01:11,516 The Jews then said, this temple has been under construction 26 00:01:11,516 --> 00:01:14,516 46 years, and you will raise it up in three days. 27 00:01:14,750 --> 00:01:17,300 But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 28 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:20,266 After he was raised from the dead, the disciples remembered that he had 29 00:01:20,266 --> 00:01:25,583 said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken 30 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:28,733 when he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival. 31 00:01:28,733 --> 00:01:31,766 Many believed in his name because they saw the sign that he was doing. 32 00:01:32,183 --> 00:01:35,266 But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, 33 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,983 because he knew all people and needed no one to testify 34 00:01:40,016 --> 00:01:44,150 about anyone, for he himself knew what was in everyone. 35 00:01:45,166 --> 00:01:48,500 So a couple of things about this passage. 36 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:52,100 It is one of the passages that is in all four of the Gospels. 37 00:01:52,616 --> 00:01:55,050 It's a visual passage. 38 00:01:55,050 --> 00:01:56,816 It's an interesting passage. 39 00:01:56,816 --> 00:01:59,150 I think it's memorable to people. 40 00:01:59,150 --> 00:02:02,750 Many of us learn this story as kids, and it just kind of sticks with you. 41 00:02:03,450 --> 00:02:06,016 It is a troubling passage for some that Jesus 42 00:02:06,016 --> 00:02:09,116 shows kind of a moment of anger or passion. 43 00:02:09,916 --> 00:02:13,366 I think partly that's why it is remembered. 44 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,800 But the setting here is this is the Passover in Jerusalem. 45 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:21,916 Many Jews were expected. 46 00:02:21,916 --> 00:02:25,433 It was even required in some circles that at some point 47 00:02:25,433 --> 00:02:29,150 you would make a passage, a Passover pilgrimage 48 00:02:29,450 --> 00:02:33,600 to Jerusalem, to the temple, and there you would offer sacrifice. 49 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,450 So it's the busiest time. 50 00:02:35,450 --> 00:02:38,300 And as such, there are people there 51 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:41,183 that instead of having to bring animals, 52 00:02:41,183 --> 00:02:46,133 there are people who will sell animals and also eat at the temple. 53 00:02:46,366 --> 00:02:50,850 Roman, Greek worldly currency was not accepted. 54 00:02:51,383 --> 00:02:54,166 It had to be Jewish currency. 55 00:02:54,166 --> 00:02:55,800 And so there were money changers. 56 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,816 Just as if you go to another country, you can exchange dollars for whatever 57 00:03:00,116 --> 00:03:01,666 that was happening here. 58 00:03:01,666 --> 00:03:05,250 And all of this is the context, Michael, for what 59 00:03:05,250 --> 00:03:08,933 then happens when Jesus sees all of this activity? 60 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:15,850 The the fact that this is happening in the temple is not particularly new. 61 00:03:15,866 --> 00:03:18,716 It's not as if this is just come up, Clint. 62 00:03:18,716 --> 00:03:23,550 So there's a way in which Jesus, his actions here are going to be received 63 00:03:24,050 --> 00:03:28,433 as being particularly pointed and in some ways 64 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:32,966 going to be surprising and some of this does have historical precedent. 65 00:03:32,966 --> 00:03:38,850 You have to recognize that, ultimately, you have multiple courts 66 00:03:38,850 --> 00:03:43,050 within the temple, and each court sort of offers different access. 67 00:03:43,050 --> 00:03:45,466 And one of those courts is the courts of the Gentiles. 68 00:03:45,466 --> 00:03:50,666 And that's the farthest you could go if you weren't a Jewish person. 69 00:03:50,866 --> 00:03:54,000 That was the end of the steps. 70 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:54,950 You could go into the temple. 71 00:03:54,950 --> 00:03:59,183 And then there was also a court for women, and then there's a court for Jewish men. 72 00:03:59,183 --> 00:04:03,000 And then you've got the Holy of Holies, that place where only the high priest 73 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,650 to go or the designated, priest could go once a year. 74 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:09,650 So the temple is this very, 75 00:04:09,833 --> 00:04:13,133 sacred, dated in that way sort of experience. 76 00:04:13,133 --> 00:04:16,366 And here in the court of the Gentiles, the place where Jesus is going, 77 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:19,350 this is the farthest a Gentile could go into the temple. 78 00:04:19,350 --> 00:04:22,950 And this matters, because this is also the place 79 00:04:23,216 --> 00:04:26,550 where the animals would be sold for sacrifice. 80 00:04:26,550 --> 00:04:30,000 And so if you were to stand in the middle of this court, clan, 81 00:04:30,116 --> 00:04:33,650 you might see animals on your left and you might see, 82 00:04:34,216 --> 00:04:38,450 a fervent Gentile on your right trying to worship in the space. 83 00:04:38,450 --> 00:04:42,150 And at the same time that that kind of very chaotic 84 00:04:42,350 --> 00:04:46,766 worship is happening or that blend between commerce and worship is happening, 85 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,516 you also have this thing of the the money actually be exchanged in that place. 86 00:04:52,516 --> 00:04:53,600 And there's a whole thing 87 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,450 that we don't have time to go into with, you know, whose image is on the coin. 88 00:04:57,566 --> 00:05:00,266 And there's a lot of subtleties to what's happening here. 89 00:05:00,266 --> 00:05:05,483 But at the end of the day, the fact that money is being exchanged, 90 00:05:05,850 --> 00:05:09,266 that it's happening in the midst of this place, that certainly 91 00:05:09,350 --> 00:05:13,050 not honoring God, that's the worship of the temples designed to do. 92 00:05:13,366 --> 00:05:16,950 Jesus calls this out, and he, in 93 00:05:16,950 --> 00:05:22,433 what is a very otherwise unique telling of Jesus. 94 00:05:22,433 --> 00:05:23,900 Really, in the Gospels, 95 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:28,550 we don't have a lot of Jesus making a whip of chord stories. 96 00:05:28,816 --> 00:05:33,866 And here Jesus, in a kind of prophetic, righteous anger, 97 00:05:34,066 --> 00:05:39,016 he drives out those who are sullying the worship of the one true God. 98 00:05:39,016 --> 00:05:42,083 And this is one of the things that makes this story 99 00:05:42,116 --> 00:05:45,800 unique, I think, is the fact it does paint Jesus and the Gospel of John 100 00:05:45,950 --> 00:05:50,450 so early in his telling, as having that kind of prophetic force. 101 00:05:50,450 --> 00:05:53,633 It's not just the force of his words in this case, 102 00:05:53,633 --> 00:05:57,050 it is the actual manifestation of his righteous anger 103 00:05:57,050 --> 00:06:00,450 against this sullying of the worship of God. 104 00:06:00,533 --> 00:06:01,733 Yeah. 105 00:06:01,733 --> 00:06:05,716 You know, at the risk of overstating it, think of something like Black Friday 106 00:06:06,233 --> 00:06:11,216 if if you are engaged with the temple, if if you are 107 00:06:11,783 --> 00:06:15,116 one of the people charged with selling animals at the temple 108 00:06:15,116 --> 00:06:19,133 or changing money at the temple, this is your day, I mean, your week. 109 00:06:19,133 --> 00:06:25,100 And so here is Jesus and again, I think that's what makes this story so memorable. 110 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:28,216 You have this kind of wild man moment 111 00:06:28,216 --> 00:06:32,216 where Jesus loses himself in his anger at what's happening. 112 00:06:32,416 --> 00:06:37,316 The idea that people are being abused, taken advantage of in the name of worship 113 00:06:37,316 --> 00:06:40,316 at the temple, at a place that is supposed to be sacred. 114 00:06:40,650 --> 00:06:44,550 And his reaction to it is, is one of cleansing. 115 00:06:44,550 --> 00:06:48,266 And in fact, that's what this is usually called, cleansing of the temple. 116 00:06:48,750 --> 00:06:54,466 And so then in John that occasions this question, you know, 117 00:06:54,466 --> 00:06:58,250 they don't say much about the conflict it causes at the time. 118 00:06:59,550 --> 00:07:01,500 That's a bigger deal in the other gospels. 119 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:02,816 And we'll talk about that in a moment. 120 00:07:02,816 --> 00:07:06,750 But, here it says his disciples, remember that it's written, 121 00:07:06,750 --> 00:07:08,933 zeal for your house will consume me. 122 00:07:08,933 --> 00:07:11,750 And the Jews then said, 123 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:14,000 what sign can you show for doing this? 124 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,366 In other words, what authority? What? 125 00:07:16,366 --> 00:07:17,933 Why are you doing this? 126 00:07:17,933 --> 00:07:19,850 And Jesus says, destroy the temple. 127 00:07:19,850 --> 00:07:21,683 They have this conversation. 128 00:07:21,683 --> 00:07:23,933 Remember in John you're going to see, 129 00:07:23,933 --> 00:07:27,000 some pretty significant examples of this in the very near future. 130 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,883 Misunderstanding is one of John's favorite ways to tell a story. 131 00:07:31,883 --> 00:07:35,150 So Jesus says something they misunderstand. 132 00:07:35,333 --> 00:07:37,050 Jesus says something spiritual. 133 00:07:37,050 --> 00:07:38,416 They take it literal. 134 00:07:38,416 --> 00:07:40,816 Jesus says, destroy the temple three days. 135 00:07:40,816 --> 00:07:43,500 They say this temple took 46 years. 136 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:46,050 What are you talking about? You're crazy man. 137 00:07:46,050 --> 00:07:48,266 And then I want you to notice. 138 00:07:48,266 --> 00:07:49,400 John jumps ahead 139 00:07:50,483 --> 00:07:53,066 after he was raised from the dead. 140 00:07:53,066 --> 00:07:56,250 Again, no delaying of this. 141 00:07:56,250 --> 00:08:01,400 John assumes that if you're reading this story, you know where it's going. 142 00:08:01,816 --> 00:08:05,000 And so he's not shy with those details. 143 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 There's no delayed conclusion here. 144 00:08:08,666 --> 00:08:13,850 And it's that kind of mechanism, I think, Michael, that's helpful to keep in mind. 145 00:08:13,850 --> 00:08:17,566 And, John, that that misunderstanding piece is, 146 00:08:17,816 --> 00:08:23,416 is really a powerful storytelling tool that John uses. 147 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:28,816 It's powerful and maybe also, over time, becomes a little numbing maybe. 148 00:08:29,033 --> 00:08:29,366 Yeah. 149 00:08:29,366 --> 00:08:32,566 And I think that as we go through this book together, 150 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,150 I think you're exactly right to say this early, Clint, 151 00:08:35,150 --> 00:08:37,283 that we're first of all, we want to point out 152 00:08:37,283 --> 00:08:42,283 that this is the very beginning of this being worked into the gospel, 153 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,066 but we're going to see it so very often, friends, that, you know, 154 00:08:46,066 --> 00:08:48,350 at some point you're going to just get a muscle for this. 155 00:08:48,350 --> 00:08:51,600 It's going to become very familiar, but it's worth 156 00:08:52,166 --> 00:08:56,400 pausing for a second here to reflect upon what you were saying, because 157 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:01,100 in reality, in verse 22, 158 00:09:01,766 --> 00:09:06,716 when John says editorially, his disciples, remember that he had said 159 00:09:06,716 --> 00:09:11,116 that my imagination is that Jesus is going along his ministry 160 00:09:11,216 --> 00:09:14,816 and that they're just, you know, kind of carrying a book or a journal. 161 00:09:14,816 --> 00:09:18,833 And Jesus said stuff, and they write it down with that kind 162 00:09:18,833 --> 00:09:22,733 of quizzical look on their face, like, what in the world is he talking about? 163 00:09:22,733 --> 00:09:25,916 And here John lists 164 00:09:25,916 --> 00:09:29,100 the quote of what Jesus had said previously, 165 00:09:29,216 --> 00:09:33,150 but now with a greater sense of understanding of what he meant. 166 00:09:33,150 --> 00:09:33,416 Right? 167 00:09:33,416 --> 00:09:36,416 In other words, Jesus wasn't talking about 168 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,700 rebuilding the physical temple in three days. 169 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:46,433 It wasn't about going from its current state of 40 plus years of construction 170 00:09:46,433 --> 00:09:49,583 and then finishing off in some Superman like effort. 171 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,266 When Jesus was talking about was the fact that his body would become 172 00:09:54,266 --> 00:09:59,000 the final connecting point between God and humanity, 173 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,200 that he would become the place where that relationship and connection 174 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,666 would be once and forever finally united and Clint's. 175 00:10:07,666 --> 00:10:11,516 That kind of insight of what Jesus 176 00:10:11,516 --> 00:10:15,950 had said compared to with what now John understands it to mean. 177 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:22,350 This is so very important because it shows us the heart behind this gospel. 178 00:10:22,350 --> 00:10:26,266 This is not just merely a historical account 179 00:10:26,266 --> 00:10:29,516 of Jesus's life, it is John is attempting to do so. 180 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:35,116 But many of our astute viewers are going to recognize that in the other gospels. 181 00:10:35,116 --> 00:10:38,333 This story comes at the end of Jesus's ministry. 182 00:10:38,550 --> 00:10:40,700 But in John it comes here in the beginning. 183 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:45,950 And the ordering of that is, I think, partially understandable 184 00:10:45,950 --> 00:10:51,316 when one realizes that John has the entire story in mind from page one. 185 00:10:51,716 --> 00:10:55,650 He's not trying to lay it out in this kind of sequential case. 186 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,866 He's trying to teach us something from all of these moments in Jesus's life. 187 00:10:59,866 --> 00:11:02,550 And this is a powerful moment. 188 00:11:02,550 --> 00:11:06,316 And part of that is I don't want to expand too far into this, 189 00:11:06,316 --> 00:11:11,450 but part of this is because now we're beginning to see how the Jews demand 190 00:11:11,450 --> 00:11:15,016 a sign when Jesus is the sign. 191 00:11:15,383 --> 00:11:18,766 And by definition, therefore, since they are so caught up 192 00:11:18,766 --> 00:11:22,666 in demanding Jesus to do a thing, they miss the Jesus 193 00:11:22,666 --> 00:11:26,366 who stands in front of them, who is the thing that they're looking for? 194 00:11:26,366 --> 00:11:29,366 And this is the fundamental confusion. 195 00:11:29,450 --> 00:11:33,900 The disciples are confused, yes, but the Jews are confused in a different way. 196 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,200 And it's only one is going to lead to faith. 197 00:11:37,350 --> 00:11:39,450 One is going to lead to destruction. 198 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:41,516 And we're going to see that building through this book. 199 00:11:42,750 --> 00:11:44,066 I think there's a sense in 200 00:11:44,066 --> 00:11:47,066 which, as you mentioned, Michael. 201 00:11:47,866 --> 00:11:51,166 So this is in all four gospels, but in the other three 202 00:11:51,166 --> 00:11:54,916 Gospels, in Matthew, Mark and Luke, this happens as part of Holy Week. 203 00:11:54,916 --> 00:11:58,050 In fact, it's one and it's generally thought of 204 00:11:58,050 --> 00:12:01,350 as the first thing that happens or essentially the first thing that happens. 205 00:12:01,366 --> 00:12:01,950 Holy. 206 00:12:01,950 --> 00:12:05,850 And it's one of the lynchpins that cement Jesus's fate. 207 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:09,800 It it is the thing in the aftermath of cleansing the temple 208 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,466 in the synoptic Gospels, the Jews go and plot 209 00:12:13,466 --> 00:12:16,466 a way to kill Jesus. 210 00:12:16,583 --> 00:12:18,600 John doesn't use the story that way. 211 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,600 Not only does he not, he puts this. 212 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,083 I mean, we're not through the second chapter yet. 213 00:12:24,083 --> 00:12:27,233 This is very early in Jesus ministry in John. 214 00:12:27,416 --> 00:12:32,783 Now that that interest Bible scholars and it troubles Bible readers, 215 00:12:32,783 --> 00:12:37,433 because if you want this to be seamless, you now have to try and say something 216 00:12:37,433 --> 00:12:41,600 like, well, either John thinks it happens earlier, John 217 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,416 doesn't care too much when it happened and wants to tell it earlier 218 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,216 because it's so important to him or it happened twice. 219 00:12:49,216 --> 00:12:50,966 And there are people who make that case, 220 00:12:50,966 --> 00:12:55,466 and you can weigh those options and find what works for you. 221 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,266 What I think is true about where 222 00:12:59,266 --> 00:13:02,716 John puts this story is that I think it indicates 223 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:06,150 how well it fits his understanding 224 00:13:06,716 --> 00:13:10,166 and what he's trying to say about who Jesus is. 225 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:16,500 Jesus is a person who attacks what stands between God and people. 226 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:18,683 That's going to be true of the demonic. 227 00:13:18,683 --> 00:13:20,850 That's going to be true of the religious. 228 00:13:20,850 --> 00:13:24,000 That's going to be true of of sin, the devil. 229 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,666 Jesus is 230 00:13:26,666 --> 00:13:30,716 passionately opposed to that which opposes God. 231 00:13:30,716 --> 00:13:35,033 And I think John loves this story for that reason. 232 00:13:35,216 --> 00:13:38,816 Now, again, the early, late question, okay, 233 00:13:38,816 --> 00:13:41,816 that that has to be settled in some way, but 234 00:13:42,150 --> 00:13:45,150 don't let that distract from 235 00:13:45,750 --> 00:13:48,416 what I think is the importance of why 236 00:13:48,416 --> 00:13:52,916 John elevates this story by putting it so early. 237 00:13:52,916 --> 00:13:57,716 I think it just captures for him something important about who Jesus is. 238 00:13:58,133 --> 00:14:02,633 The fact that Jesus goes on Passover 239 00:14:03,083 --> 00:14:07,850 to the temple, to the place where all of these fervent 240 00:14:07,850 --> 00:14:12,083 worshiping Jews from around the world are gathering to to worship God. 241 00:14:12,083 --> 00:14:17,066 The fact that Jesus goes to that place, that he sees people, 242 00:14:17,333 --> 00:14:20,750 he sees systems, he sees economies 243 00:14:21,016 --> 00:14:24,566 built around putting barriers between 244 00:14:24,983 --> 00:14:28,950 the people that God loves and God's presence. 245 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,850 You have to understand that in John's gospel writing, 246 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:36,566 the John, the likely the latest gospel written, 247 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,516 when John is putting these words down and has all of the benefit 248 00:14:41,516 --> 00:14:45,683 of understanding that the Christian church and its history 249 00:14:45,683 --> 00:14:49,816 up to the point of of delivering this book and and the moment in which it's 250 00:14:49,816 --> 00:14:53,250 circulating amongst those earliest Christian communities, I think there's 251 00:14:53,250 --> 00:14:56,250 this absolute astonishing 252 00:14:56,250 --> 00:15:01,200 insight of what is happening in this cleansing moment, 253 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,200 because what Jesus is doing 254 00:15:04,250 --> 00:15:08,750 is, is demonstrating physically for all to see 255 00:15:09,116 --> 00:15:14,266 that God is done with these arbitrary lines, that that the 256 00:15:14,633 --> 00:15:20,183 the barriers that are being put in between people and God's presence and God's 257 00:15:20,183 --> 00:15:23,183 redemptive love, that that is a barrier 258 00:15:23,183 --> 00:15:26,483 that that Jesus is unwilling to accept. 259 00:15:26,483 --> 00:15:28,433 And so when when he 260 00:15:29,716 --> 00:15:33,000 does this thing which is out of his character, 261 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,616 in so many other of these stories where Jesus uses wit or wisdom 262 00:15:37,616 --> 00:15:42,800 or Jesus uses miracle power and and that way sort of circumvents this. 263 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,433 Jesus meets head on and the sign 264 00:15:46,766 --> 00:15:50,550 is the intensity of his response to it. 265 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:53,850 And and make no mistake, 266 00:15:53,850 --> 00:15:57,950 you've got the water in the wine from the story yesterday. 267 00:15:57,950 --> 00:15:59,633 The wedding. Right. The celebration. 268 00:15:59,633 --> 00:16:02,900 You now move to this, this radically different emotion, 269 00:16:03,150 --> 00:16:06,450 this radically different affect that Jesus shows here at the temple. 270 00:16:06,750 --> 00:16:11,700 Make no mistake, these both, I think, prefigure the ending of this story. 271 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:15,683 I think John is intentionally, in this case, pointing us towards 272 00:16:15,683 --> 00:16:20,183 the end of Jesus's death at the hands of the people who are disrupted, 273 00:16:20,183 --> 00:16:25,166 the ones who are happy to remain at the center between the people and God. 274 00:16:25,433 --> 00:16:29,150 I make no mistake that this story, it's already 275 00:16:29,150 --> 00:16:33,600 kicking off the impetus that the arc of the conflict, 276 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,150 which is only going to grow between Jesus and as John calls them, the Jews, 277 00:16:38,150 --> 00:16:41,250 this generic term we're going to learn more about as we go, 278 00:16:41,266 --> 00:16:44,266 that this is going to build towards the end. 279 00:16:44,483 --> 00:16:48,983 And John is showing us in this story that it started at the beginning, 280 00:16:48,983 --> 00:16:52,216 that this is a path that Jesus had been on the whole time. 281 00:16:52,966 --> 00:16:57,900 I think there in this, one of the benefits to this story is 282 00:16:58,466 --> 00:17:01,366 that it pushes our understanding 283 00:17:01,366 --> 00:17:05,833 and maybe even our comfort level, with Jesus a little bit. 284 00:17:05,833 --> 00:17:10,850 You know, the idea that Jesus gets upset by things 285 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,300 that are wrong, that are hurtful, 286 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:17,300 that are abusive, that are manipulative, 287 00:17:17,783 --> 00:17:22,016 Jesus is enraged by false 288 00:17:22,016 --> 00:17:26,033 religion or by, religion 289 00:17:26,183 --> 00:17:31,733 that takes advantage of people instead of truly focusing on God. 290 00:17:31,733 --> 00:17:35,250 And I think that's a helpful corrective to the idea 291 00:17:35,250 --> 00:17:38,250 that Jesus is quote unquote nice. 292 00:17:38,550 --> 00:17:41,633 That that's too shallow of an idea. 293 00:17:41,633 --> 00:17:43,800 Jesus's is far more complicated 294 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:48,050 and far more wonderful and far more mysterious than that. 295 00:17:48,450 --> 00:17:51,450 Jesus is kind and gracious, 296 00:17:51,916 --> 00:17:54,583 and Jesus, when it comes to it, is 297 00:17:55,550 --> 00:17:58,550 willing to take a stand even, 298 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,233 an aggressive one to try and right or wrong. 299 00:18:03,266 --> 00:18:07,666 And I I've, I appreciate about this story that it 300 00:18:08,516 --> 00:18:10,666 it broadens our horizons. 301 00:18:10,666 --> 00:18:13,250 When we think about who Jesus is a little bit. 302 00:18:13,250 --> 00:18:18,766 It broadens our horizons because it reveals who Jesus is. 303 00:18:18,766 --> 00:18:20,150 And that's the sign, right? 304 00:18:20,150 --> 00:18:21,083 Is this idea. 305 00:18:21,083 --> 00:18:25,050 And, just as we come to conclude, I realize that we're not going to spend 306 00:18:25,050 --> 00:18:28,050 a lot of time talking about this, but verses 23 through 25, 307 00:18:28,133 --> 00:18:32,100 let it be said, this idea of Jesus is not entrusting himself. 308 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:33,616 He knows all people know. 309 00:18:33,616 --> 00:18:35,933 He needs no one to testify. 310 00:18:35,933 --> 00:18:39,616 There are these cryptic passages in John that we're going to find all the time. 311 00:18:39,616 --> 00:18:43,500 Clint, related to this idea of testimony related to the idea of sign 312 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:44,600 miracle wonders. 313 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,316 So just note that we're going to see that often, 314 00:18:48,316 --> 00:18:51,600 and there are going to be times in John where something is 315 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,316 rather worthy in the way it's written, and it may leave you scratching your head. 316 00:18:55,883 --> 00:18:58,500 Some of that is the mystical nature of this book. 317 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:00,383 Some of that's the mystical nature of Christ. 318 00:19:00,383 --> 00:19:04,433 Some of that is us looking back on this with a thousand years of distance, 319 00:19:04,433 --> 00:19:07,433 trying to lean into it, just know that that's there. 320 00:19:07,550 --> 00:19:09,966 We're not passing by it. You're going to see it again. 321 00:19:09,966 --> 00:19:11,183 Just give that voice. 322 00:19:11,183 --> 00:19:16,583 If you're ever in a moment where you need to resonate with the Jesus 323 00:19:16,583 --> 00:19:22,883 who asks questions and has weaknesses and wrestles with doubts, 324 00:19:22,883 --> 00:19:28,850 and in is unsure at times, don't look in the Gospel of John. 325 00:19:28,850 --> 00:19:31,466 Yeah, John. John doesn't. 326 00:19:31,466 --> 00:19:32,666 John doesn't do that. 327 00:19:32,666 --> 00:19:35,183 Jesus knows all the things about all the people. 328 00:19:35,183 --> 00:19:38,666 He doesn't need anyone's counsel because he already knows what's in their heart. 329 00:19:39,266 --> 00:19:43,350 That's just John's going to remind us of that kind of thing regularly. 330 00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:45,833 And so we'll have plenty of chances to talk about it. 331 00:19:45,833 --> 00:19:46,916 Thanks for being with us here today. 332 00:19:46,916 --> 00:19:48,950 I hope there's been something that's encouraged you. 333 00:19:48,950 --> 00:19:50,250 Maybe you've learned something new. 334 00:19:50,250 --> 00:19:52,283 If so, we'd love for you to give this video a like. 335 00:19:52,283 --> 00:19:54,983 It helps others as they study the scriptures themselves. 336 00:19:54,983 --> 00:19:57,116 Subscribe those so that you can stick with us. 337 00:19:57,116 --> 00:19:58,883 There so much more of John to come. 338 00:19:58,883 --> 00:20:02,350 We'd love for you to be with us with the journey and till tomorrow be blessed. 339 00:20:02,366 --> 00:20:03,800 Thanks for spending some time with us.