So many words!
I'm going to take a detour from the one-year Bible and I'm going to write about something in John chapter 8 that caught my attention this week. Jesus had just finished with the woman who was caught in adultery. He had just told her no one accuses her so neither does he. And he told her to go and sin no more. His next audience was filled with more Pharisees and more Jewish leaders who were beginning to press him and ask him who he was, who his father was and where he was from. These were things they were doing in order to trap him and seize him. However, in verse 20 the Bible says no one sees him because his hour had not yet come. But the Jews continued to press him and continued to push him, to try to make him trip up with his words. And that is where I found verse 26 and read it in an entirely different way. Verse 26 says" I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I speak to the worl...