the multitudes
I just finished reading through the gospels and wanted to share a bit of what I noticed this time around.
The multitudes in the gospels are mentioned over and over again and I never really noticed it before. There are the obvious references regarding feeding of the 5000, the 4000 etc, but even in that it never registers what an awesome size crowd that really is. Think about it. 5000 men. That is not including women and children. Than means, when you include those they don't count, there were likely 10,000 people there for days, just waiting with anxiousness to hear the words that Jesus would speak and more likely to see the healings and miracles that He would "preform".
There are so many times that Jesus would warn those he healed NOT to tell anyone, and yet the news would spread quickly. There are references to when the crowds pressed in around him... thousands followed him through the streets, multitudes searched him out and met him everytime he got off the boat.
Multitudes heard him preach, multitudes longed to see him. What struck me though was Luke's account of the Pharisee's and the High Priests who were afraid of Him, not because of the power he held in the supernatural, but because of the power he held over the multitudes. They stop questioning him at one point, because of their fear of the reaction of the multitudes. They don't arrest Him in the synagogue because of the multitudes... Judas himself looked for an opportune time when Jesus would be alone in the garden surrounded not by the multitudes, but only the 12... and he (judas) brought a multitude with him bearing clubs and swords.
The multitudes were why Jesus came.
Just something to think about.
The multitudes in the gospels are mentioned over and over again and I never really noticed it before. There are the obvious references regarding feeding of the 5000, the 4000 etc, but even in that it never registers what an awesome size crowd that really is. Think about it. 5000 men. That is not including women and children. Than means, when you include those they don't count, there were likely 10,000 people there for days, just waiting with anxiousness to hear the words that Jesus would speak and more likely to see the healings and miracles that He would "preform".
There are so many times that Jesus would warn those he healed NOT to tell anyone, and yet the news would spread quickly. There are references to when the crowds pressed in around him... thousands followed him through the streets, multitudes searched him out and met him everytime he got off the boat.
Multitudes heard him preach, multitudes longed to see him. What struck me though was Luke's account of the Pharisee's and the High Priests who were afraid of Him, not because of the power he held in the supernatural, but because of the power he held over the multitudes. They stop questioning him at one point, because of their fear of the reaction of the multitudes. They don't arrest Him in the synagogue because of the multitudes... Judas himself looked for an opportune time when Jesus would be alone in the garden surrounded not by the multitudes, but only the 12... and he (judas) brought a multitude with him bearing clubs and swords.
The multitudes were why Jesus came.
Just something to think about.
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