"The King is Naked!"
John 7:25-36
Division Over Who Jesus Is
25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.” 28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him. 33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.” 35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36 What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
Jesus was teaching and crying out to the people in a temple in Jerusalem publicly, although he had known that the chief priests and the Pharisees had been planning to kill Him. He also knew that the time of death was around the corner. However, He didn't stop teaching most people in a temple court who were not able to understand the heavenly things at all.
Here I see two kinds of people and find something interesting: the public and the religious men. The public believed only what they had seen through their eyes at that time, as the acts of Jesus was awesome and no one could do such miraculous signs ever. However, the latter just did intend to kill Him although they had learned, taught, and even memorized the Law of Moses more than the first. Why? What's wrong with them?
I don't think it's because their personalities are bad or they are more wicked than the common people. I guess that the knowledge about the Laws and positions of having authorities made them stuck in a trap, like feeling they are superior to the other men, so they couldn't accept Jesus, who was more superior to themselves, and who was condeming and blaming them. I name it an impasses of thought and they had a blind spot in themselves, like 'The naked king'.
Like a boy, who saw a naked king and shouted, "The king is naked!" at once, we need to see and shout in a moment when we see any scenes of truth, not hiding or distorting the truth etc. Then we can believe Jesus, like a boy who does not have any prejudice or blind spots in himself, which means we need a pure and blank mind to see the Son of God.
