DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Views about Jesus” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, the crowds and guards had different views of who Jesus was, and no one arrested Him. Ponder on, “We all have faith in Jesus, as our Lord and Messiah. However, we fall into the sin of omission to witness to who Jesus is; in our daily living. Are people not inspired to believe in Jesus, because of our poor witness?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
John 7:40-47
Some of the crowd who had been listening to Jesus said, ‘He is indeed the prophet,’ and some said, ‘He is the Christ,’ but others said, ‘Would the Christ come from Galilee? Does not scripture say that the Christ must be descended from David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was?’
So the people could not agree about him. Some wanted to arrest him, but no one actually laid a hand on him. The guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees who said to them, ‘Why haven’t you brought him?’ The guards replied, ‘No one has ever spoken like this man.’ ‘So,’ the Pharisees answered, ‘you, too, have been led astray?’