This passage was more than one line and Jesus is preaching, while dissing Nicodemus. Telling him that he, the Pharisee, a person who is rich and studies the religious laws that he is wrong and that God is about love and not law. Now that he has done that, Jesus is reading ancient scrolls, written by Isaiah. Isaiah is what you call an oracle, I mean augur, no physic, wait no prophet. That's right. This is what Isaiah for told, " 'The Spirit of God is on me, the Nazarene reads in Hebrew, 'because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.' He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and the recovery for the sight of the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the Lord's favor' " (O'Rielly 130).
This is the most sermon in the chapter because in this reading Jesus (aka the Nazarene ) is proclaiming that he is the Son of God and that he can preform all of these miracles. He is saying that God personally sent him for those purposes. This is in front of a lot of people in a synagogue, including Pharisees who will now target Jesus and hate him for showing them up in their "place" on the Sabbath. that'd be like the President of Greece heading over to Italy and saying, "Hey, I now am the President of Italy because the United States President said so." They would try and do anything they could to stop that change of power from happening. The Pharisees are going to now target Jesus and try to take him down.
SPOILER
You can't bring Him down, to you here what he's tryin' to say
You can't bring Him dooown.
Would you be a Pharisee or a folloer in this situation?
Oh man. I hate conflicts, so I'd probably stay out of it in general. That seems a bit bold of Jesus though.
ReplyDeleteWait - are you reading the Bible? That's huge! Good luck, wow.