As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, (Mark 11:1)
The public life of Jesus is composing of the journey starts from Galilee to Jerusalem via Samaria. Galilee is a departing point and Jerusalem ending point. Jesus’ declaration of the kingdom of God greatly highlighted in Galilee but was denounced in Jerusalem. Why does such thing happen?
Such matter is difficult to explain base on a certain fact. The gospels that describe Jesus’ public life don’t have any interest in such social matter. We only can understand such matter indirectly through reading the lines of the Bible.
One of the reasons was that the leaders of Jews didn’t consider Jesus’ ministry in Galilee as a risky thing for their hegemony for it hadn’t actualized and he didn’t make any big power group. In Galilee Jesus might be received as a mere wondering preacher or a general Rabbi. He lived as a friend of sinners and tax collectors. He healed the diseases and drove out evil spirits. And he removed sin consciousness from people.
However, such Jesus’ movement of the kingdom of God gradually got power. Though the description of the gospel that the numbers of 5000 who got experienced the event of five loaves and two fishes is a little overstated the fact Jesus might have huge followers is clear. Such followers made Jewish leader uncomfortable. Especially there were many civil revolts in Galilee in those days.
It is right to say that a decisive cause of betrayal in Jerusalem, executing on the cross was the expression of the desire of Jew’s leader in Jerusalem to keep their present peaceful life or maintenance of the status quo. In such place a paradigm shift cannot be allowed. Is present Korean church not similar to such Jerusalem?
The public life of Jesus is composing of the journey starts from Galilee to Jerusalem via Samaria. Galilee is a departing point and Jerusalem ending point. Jesus’ declaration of the kingdom of God greatly highlighted in Galilee but was denounced in Jerusalem. Why does such thing happen?
Such matter is difficult to explain base on a certain fact. The gospels that describe Jesus’ public life don’t have any interest in such social matter. We only can understand such matter indirectly through reading the lines of the Bible.
One of the reasons was that the leaders of Jews didn’t consider Jesus’ ministry in Galilee as a risky thing for their hegemony for it hadn’t actualized and he didn’t make any big power group. In Galilee Jesus might be received as a mere wondering preacher or a general Rabbi. He lived as a friend of sinners and tax collectors. He healed the diseases and drove out evil spirits. And he removed sin consciousness from people.
However, such Jesus’ movement of the kingdom of God gradually got power. Though the description of the gospel that the numbers of 5000 who got experienced the event of five loaves and two fishes is a little overstated the fact Jesus might have huge followers is clear. Such followers made Jewish leader uncomfortable. Especially there were many civil revolts in Galilee in those days.
It is right to say that a decisive cause of betrayal in Jerusalem, executing on the cross was the expression of the desire of Jew’s leader in Jerusalem to keep their present peaceful life or maintenance of the status quo. In such place a paradigm shift cannot be allowed. Is present Korean church not similar to such Jerusalem?
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