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"Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?/ And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast."
We shall take this up along with reference to John in 11:2-15 and this embassy from the disciples of John is leading us to the falling apart between the friend of the groom and the groom. According to the Scripture one was intended as a messenger and the other as the Messiah. John practiced the rigors of ascetic life could not see beyond his own lifestyle. He was as perplexed as the Pharisees that he would consort with publicans and the sinners. John lacked the insight as to Jesus as the suffering servant and What the prophet had foretold, 'he hath born our griefs'. "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."(8:17)
Vis-a-vis John his order of priorities differed from the Word concerning their respective ministries. As a suffering servant he was on the road to glory."If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us."(2.Ti.2:12)
John wanted to know, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?/Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see." Jesus making the doctrine of his Father as the Servant-King,- and the path inexorably led to Calvary and beyond, a fact that John missed. The beam in his eye was such how the Messiah-King would conduct his kingdom on the earth prevented him obviously. He had all the credentials of being the greatest born of a woman but in the estimation of Jesus,"notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." (11:11). He thought like everybody else, and not as the Word had spoken.
"Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?/ And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast."
We shall take this up along with reference to John in 11:2-15 and this embassy from the disciples of John is leading us to the falling apart between the friend of the groom and the groom. According to the Scripture one was intended as a messenger and the other as the Messiah. John practiced the rigors of ascetic life could not see beyond his own lifestyle. He was as perplexed as the Pharisees that he would consort with publicans and the sinners. John lacked the insight as to Jesus as the suffering servant and What the prophet had foretold, 'he hath born our griefs'. "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."(8:17)
Vis-a-vis John his order of priorities differed from the Word concerning their respective ministries. As a suffering servant he was on the road to glory."If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us."(2.Ti.2:12)
John wanted to know, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?/Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see." Jesus making the doctrine of his Father as the Servant-King,- and the path inexorably led to Calvary and beyond, a fact that John missed. The beam in his eye was such how the Messiah-King would conduct his kingdom on the earth prevented him obviously. He had all the credentials of being the greatest born of a woman but in the estimation of Jesus,"notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." (11:11). He thought like everybody else, and not as the Word had spoken.
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