Jn.10:22-42
The Jews flat-out asked Jesus if he was the Christ. They told him to quit keeping them in suspense. He replied that he had already told them that he was. I don't understand when people say that Jesus never said he was the Messiah. (Messiah and Christ are the same thing.) He told the Samaritan woman he was the Messiah,and he told Pilate that indeed he was the King of the Jews. For goodness' sake his whole life was one huge sign (miracle)! An interesting thing happens in this reading. These Jews, who saw the signs or heard about them, didn't believe in Jesus. They wanted to kill him. Jesus slips away from them and crosses the Jordan River and encounters some people that had merely heard the preaching about Jesus by John the Baptist (who by now has been beheaded). They saw no miracles yet believed because of the preaching. ---God still uses the preaching of the message of the cross by using the Scriptures to save people. Quit looking for a sign! Some saw signs and still didn't believe. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation. Tell somebody.
