As most here are aware, Jesus performed many miracles such as healing and curing the sick, infirmed and demon-possessed. While he performed many, this one event really sticks out.
Before the passover, Jesus performed one of his most remarkable miracles-raising a dead man who was buried for 4 years. Because of this there was much popular excitement, and the religious leaders said among themselves: “What are we to do, because this man performs many signs? If we let him alone this way, they will all put faith in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” (John 11:1-48)
The Jewish leaders here acknowledged the resurrection of the deceased individual, not attributing the raising of the dead to any trickery, yet they did not place faith and accept Jesus as the Messiah. How can this be reconciled? Please, serious replies only.
2007-09-26 14:36:33 · 9 answers · asked by Jus.Do.It 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my apologies ...
4 days not years. Thank you for correcting this.
2007-09-26 14:47:29 · update #1
Friend, Lazarus was dead for 4 days.
John 11:17
On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
In addition, consider Jesus' parable about Lazarus in Luke 16. He says that if one were to return from the dead, still they would not believe.
2007-09-26 14:44:14 · answer #1 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Question: Reconciling Jesus Miracles with Jewish Leaders?
Answer: The act of forgiveness.
The Jewish Leaders of the time of Jesus were "in between a rock and a hard place" and under great stress. They feared for their existence and their nation at the hands of the Romans. We must ask, since God and His Son were involved, wouldn't some kind of reconciliation have taken place if Jesus were to bring the Kingdom of God to the earth while he was alive? Perhaps the Jews could have simply turned over Jesus to the Romans. Then the Romans could have witnessed with their own eyes the miracles of Jesus. Instead, we have this dramatic epic of the ascent of religion over the nations of the world, with Christianity leading the way, that we are still living today. After the death and resurrection of Jesus, there was what is called a "diaspora" of the Jews, where the Romans conquered a rebellious Jewish province and sent the Jewish people away from their homeland into all the world. This had also happened several times centuries before Jesus when the Israelites were taken into bondage to Persia (modern day Iran), and almost annihilated from existence, but then saved by the actions of Esther. And before that, were in bondage to the land of Mesopotamia (the Assyrians and Chaldeans, which is now modern day Iraq) where the prophet Daniel prophesied and performed miracles before the King of that country. And before that, were in bondage to the Egyptians, and then brought out of bondage by God and His prophet, Moses. After being conquered by the Romans and having their homeland taken away, the Jewish people have lived throughout the world for almost 2000 years, only returning and re-establishing their homeland after World War II, in 1947. After all the Jewish people have gone through, couldn't these past 2000 years be considered reconciliation?
We cannot go back in time and forgive the mistakes of people 2000 years ago for events we cannot change. However, we can somehow find forgiveness and understanding today.
2007-09-26 23:07:23 · answer #2 · answered by endpov 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus told the story of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man was in hell. The rich man asked that Lazarus would be sent back, raised from the dead to warn the rich man's friends, so they wouldn't end up in hell with him.
The answer was, if they reject the Word of God, they would even reject it if someone is raised from the dead.
The point is that even the greatest miracles don't prove to the unbelieving, the truth of God. They either accept it by believing the Word of God, or they don't.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
That's why Jesus could heal the cut off ear of the Roman guard that night, and nobody was phased by it. Unbelievers are that way because they don't (yet?) believe the Word of God, the Bible.
2007-09-26 21:41:06 · answer #3 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Um, isn't there a small problem with the fact that after 4 years back then a body would be badly decompossed to say the least?
2007-09-26 21:40:09 · answer #4 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's a verse from the Bible, which is believed by many to be untrue. Are there any collaborating documents supporting this?
2007-09-26 21:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It states in Bible and Koran that the Jew's can't be trusted because they have done WRONG to all prophets and they will never see peace in this world because of the sins they committted.
2007-09-26 21:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by HI 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is why PAUL (Rabbi Saul) sacrificed his life to make sure the "renegades" were completely misguided with Polytheism and an abandonment of the LAW.
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2007-09-26 21:44:45 · answer #7 · answered by Mithrianity 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The miracles are fables. The Bible has not been proven as true and without error.
2007-09-26 21:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
So you trust a Christian source for what Jewish leaders said?
Tell me, would you trust what a KKK member told you a black guy said?
2007-09-26 21:40:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋