Jesus in Jerusalem

Jerusalem. A festival filled the city with crowds. The leaders wanted Jesus dead, but He walked straight into the Temple and began to teach. People pressed close, amazed. "How does this man know so much? He never studied with a teacher!" Jesus answered them. "My teaching does not come from Me. It...

Angry voices cut through the crowd. Jesus stood tall and faced them. "I healed one man on the Sabbath, and you are angry. You yourselves work on the Sabbath when the law tells you to. So why be furious that I made a man whole? Stop judging by what things look like. Judge by what is true."

Whispers moved through the crowd like wind through tall grass. "Is this not the man they want to kill? He speaks right out in the open and no one stops Him." Some people shook their heads. Others believed because of the signs He did. The whole city buzzed with it — who was this man?

Jn 7:14