They intended to catch him out. Questions that couldn’t be answered without getting yourself into trouble. Surely this would be the end of Jesus, or would it?
The leaders in Jerusalem were not happy with Jesus. He’d put their noses out of joint and they were ready to fight back. Here’s round one. But who would it go to?
He saw a fig tree in the distance. Getting there, he saw it had no fruit. Not a surprise really, it wasn’t the time for figs. But then he cursed the tree. What? Why? Is this the tantrum of a toddler not getting his way, or is it something else?
They wanted the top jobs going. Who wouldn’t? But they didn’t expect that reply from Jesus.
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About Step by Step
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If you wanted to know whether Jesus was someone worth following, how would you find that out? You could put his name into an internet search and trawl through all the results. I did that and it…
returned almost 1 billion pages. A lot of people have written about him and there are lots of opinions out there. A simpler way would be to turn to the Bible and find out about Jesus at source. That's the plan in this series of short talks.