Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Blind Disciples
I found it very interesting the section in the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels on Blindness. After I read Mark 6:14- 9:1, I found it very interesting how the disciples still were not getting it. They were with Jesus when he healed a deaf and mute man, then Jesus feeds the four thousand. After that Jesus warns them to watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod and the disciples think that he is just talking about bread. Following that Jesus heals a blind man and Peter confesses that Jesus is the Christ. Right after that Peter rebukes Christ for Predicting his own death. They just did not get it. They had personal one on one relationship with Christ everyday but yet they could not comprehend the things that Christ was trying to teach them. But like this section in DJG says it was not until after Christ death that they finally realized and understood what he had been teaching them.
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I agree with you on that the disciples didn't get who Jesus was and what he could do. I've became fimilar with this same topic as well. I don't understand how they could be so blind, when they hung out with Jesus and witnessed all the miracles he performed. But I thought what we I be like in that situation. And I realized I may have been the same way as the disciples. I think as a human, I wouldn't have been able to fully understand Jesus and all that he could do. If I had heard about Jesus through the OT scripture, and then Jesus comes to earth, chooses me as a disciple and does all Jesus did. I think I would have been alittle stunned and overwhelmed. I, like the disciples may not have been able to understand and take all of this in as easy as it seems. It's just a thought I had though. I agree with your good, but I think we have to view things in different ways sometimes.
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