The disciples, like
many of us, took a long time to understand Jesus and His mission. They give
ordinary people like you and me great hope. If God could use these people for
God’s great purposes, He can use anyone!
To meditate/pray upon
John
16:17-18 ‘At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean
by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little
while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” They kept asking, “What does he
mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”’
Isaiah 53:10-11 ‘Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him
to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see
his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in
his hand. After he has suffered, he will see the light of life
and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and
he will bear their iniquities.’
John 12:16 ‘At first his disciples did not understand all this.
Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been
written about him and that these things had been done to him’.
The disciples could not grasp the meaning of Jesus’ words. They could
not see why He would say you will “see me know more… then you will see me”.
They could not envisage any reason for Jesus to die, and they certainly would
not have had any ideas of a resurrection.
The Old Testament prophecies that there would come a Messiah who would
die and rise from death, but the disciples, and the Jews in general, were not
able to grasp these things.
The things of God and the cross seem foolish until we experience the new
birth by the Holy Spirit. Now we understand!
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