Jn. 5: 39-47: ‘If another comes in his own name, him you will
receive’ (v.43b) Jesus attacks the impostors who come and preached what
people desire – victory and material prosperity but Jesus preaches the
cross. The characteristic of these impostors are to offer the easy way while
Jesus offers the hard way to God. The impostors perished while Christ lives on.
This knowledge of the way to the kingdom of God is being given only to the Jews
then. It become their privilege but failed to use them and thereby had become
their condemnation. Responsibility is always the other side of privilege.
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