“Your disciples don’t deny themselves food (fasting) like we do,” said some of John the Baptist’s disciples to Jesus. “Would you expect wedding guests to be sad and refrain from food while the groom is at the reception?” Jesus replied. “The time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then… Read More »
“Everybody Is Going To Him”
The disciples of John the Baptist said to him, “The man you call the Messiah is baptizing people and everybody is going to him.” John replied, “Everything comes from Heaven. I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him. Anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal life. Anyone… Read More »
“Did You Hear the News?”
“You know that man named John, the one that’s out along the Jordan, telling people they need to repent; and, then he’s baptizing them in the Jordan River? They call him ‘John the Baptist’. Well, the word around Nazareth is that Joseph’s son…you know, the carpenter’s son…the one called ‘Jesus’…he went out to the Jordan… Read More »