John 7: 49-52
“‘ No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.’ Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?’ They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.'”
Yesterday we examined the topic of rationalizing what one believes. The Pharisees had decided that Jesus was a deceiver because he had people convinced he was the Messiah when he did not follow the Sabbath laws. (The idea that God was not subject to the laws of man obviously hadn’t occurred to them.)
In this passage, Nicodemus tries to reason with his own kind, Pharisee to Pharisee. Continue reading “Plots”