Category: Jesus’ Life

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 11 – Jesus At The Feast Of Tabernacles (St John) Jesus secretly left Galilee and went to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles, a week-long event. He did so despite knowing that some Jewish Leaders were trying to find a reason to arrest him and have him killed. Not surprisingly, the Jewish…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 11 – Jesus At The Feast Of Tabernacles (St John) It was the Feast of Tabernacles; one of the seven annual Holy Days in the Jewish calendar. People would traditionally travel from throughout Israel to Jerusalem and celebrate the weeklong festival. It was a reminder to them of the forty-year journey of…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem I was too young to even know the meaning of the word Parable when my teacher told my class the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. I thought my teacher was referring to the people in our small village Church. To make matters…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem Tiredness takes its toll but persistence seems to make all the difference. I once witnessed a mum arriving with her husband and two exhausted children at a hotel lobby. It was 9 o’clock at night. They had been cycling on two tandem cycles, children going…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem A matter of great importance to the Pharisees was knowing when the Kingdom of God would come. They expected it to be an event of great pomp and celebration. When they put the question to Jesus he answered, “The coming of the kingdom of God…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem Could you help someone today? Maybe you could help ten! Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem when ten men suffering from leprosy approached him and begged for his mercy. “Jesus Master, have pity on us,” they said. In those days, leprosy was an incurable…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem The disciples asked Jesus to (miraculously) increase their faith, they wanted to have all doubt about his teachings removed from their thoughts. Jesus replied, “Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after ploughing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem Jesus told the disciples this Parable: There was a rich man, who dressed in fine clothes and ate sumptuously every day, and Lazarus, who was poor and lay by the rich man’s gate. Lazarus was covered in sores and would happily have eaten the crumbs that…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem When Jesus preached the Parable of the Dishonest Steward and shared the proverb on “faithfulness” with his disciples, some Pharisees listened in and reacted by “sneering” and “turning up their nose at Him”. The Pharisees “loved money” so, Jesus’ message of honesty, trustworthiness and building riches in…

Jesus’ Life: Chapter 10 – Jesus’ Last Journey To Jerusalem Who do you trust? Having told his listeners the Parable of the Dishonest Steward, Jesus said, “The one who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones, and the one who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in…