Four Responses to a Hard Truth
The Gospel of John - Part 19 • 1/31/21
Key passage: John 6:60-71
Disdain
This teaching is hard to accept.
John 6:60
The hardness was in their hearts.
John 6:61 - Jesus, knowing that his disciples were grumbling asked them, “does this offend you?”.
skandalizō (Greek) - to trigger the trap. To cause someone to stumble or trip.
They felt trapped by this teaching.
Desertion
John 6:66 - From that moment many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him.
John 6:67: So Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”
Devotion
John 6:68 ...Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:69: We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
ginōskō (Greek): to know experiential, in contrast to oida, which means to know intuitively or perceive.
Treachery
John 6:70: Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”
The most negative thing said about Judas in the four gospels.
What is your response?