a question for Christians?

Question

Mat 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

What does this mean

Answer 1

It means when you don't act like people want you to act, they will think something is wrong with you.

Answer 2

John the Baptist and his disciples fasted (didn't eat or drink as a sign of supplication or mourning) and Jesus and His disciples ate and drank. This verse is a comment on society of the time saying that John the Baptist was demonically possessed (how else could you not eat and drink?) because he fasted, but that Jesus was a drunkard and a glutton because he DID eat and drink. It's society putting the religious men in a hard place. "So, if I eat, I'm a glutton, but if I fast, I am demonically possessed? Pick a side and stick with it. I can't do both!"

Answer 3

Jesus was pointing out the fickle-mindedness of the people who on one hand accused John of having a demon because he apparently ate nothing (they did not count locusts as proper food) nor drank (wine). Yet when Jesus ate and drank they called Him a glutton and a drunk. These people just want to find fault anyway.

Are you like that too?

Answer 4

In that chapter Jesus was preaching in the[Galilean] cities. He was speaking to the people of the city.

18For John came neither eating nor drinking [with others], and they say, He has a demon!
(The people of the city thought there was something wrong with John b/c he did not participate in eating and drinking w/ them)

The people of the city were not accepting what Jesus was saying to them. So he said,

25At that time Jesus began to say, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [and [h]I acknowledge openly and joyfully to Your honor], that You have hidden these things from the wise and clever and learned, and revealed them to babies [to the [i]childish, untaught, and unskilled].

26Yes, Father, [I praise You that] such was Your gracious will and good pleasure.

27All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one [j]fully knows and [k]accurately understands the Son except the Father, and no one [l]fully knows and [m]accurately understands the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son [n]deliberately wills to make Him known.

28Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will [o]ease and relieve and [p]refresh [q]your souls.]

29Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest ([r]relief and ease and refreshment and [s]recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.(E)

30For My yoke is wholesome (useful, [t]good--not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.


If you read the whole chapeter that should help with understand that verse. If that is what you are getting caught up on.

Answer 5

The people who didn't want to believe that John the baptist was sent from God said that he had a demon so they had an excuse not listening and follow after what he said.

Answer 6

They were questioning Jesus for eating with sinners and He told them that because John (the baptist) didn't come eating with people they said he had a demon and then Jesus did eat with sinners and they were accusing Him of partying. They weren't happy with either one.

Answer 7

What Jesus is trying to say is that John was both stone sober and healthy. He treated his body with respect and intelligent, unlike the Pharisees who go drunk a lot and were gluttonous. Basically Jesus is saying "John took better care of himself then YOU did and yet you say he is unclean."

Answer 8

He was saying that because they do not want to accept the things of God they would find any thing to go against, they were against John the Baptist, but He did nothing wrong, except share the truth, and they were agianst Christ, but again He did nothing, except save the lost.

Answer 9

What are the children of wisdom? Good works and good fruit. Whether what we do is wise or foolish is seen in the fruit we bear and in what we accomplish. An alcoholic produces sorrow for himself and his family, battered wives and children, poor health, and a shorter life. A glutton produces a bad example for his family and his brethren, poverty, poor health, and eventually death. We must control our desires because excess desire is the driving force behind gluttony. When we lose control of it, we sin, feeding the god that is in our belly, the god of excess, the god of too much, too fast, too eagerly.

Another interpretation of "wisdom is justified by her children" is that those who follow the wisdom from above recognize and live their lives based on truth. By their example in living wisely and righteously, they justify, prove, that it is the right and reasonable way to live. The way the wise live destroys the credibility of false accusations. Avoiding gluttony is one way to show that we are living in wisdom. The foolish—the opposite of the wise—tend toward gluttony.

Answer 10

He did not fit into their mold and he told them things that they thought no one knew and they did not like it when he uncovered their sins. After all they were "the religious group" and they thought of themselves as better then anyone else. John came telling everyone different. Kind of like what goes on today, huh!

Answer 11

He was neither a drunkard nor a slothful person. They thought John the baptist was crazy because of his actions.....but he wasn't. It was all from God.....preparing the way for Jesus.