16:3
Why do people act in such an illogical way? Why did the Jews oppose Jesus and even kill Him, when if only they had believed they would have received eternal life? It is because they did not know the Father nor the Son. This also shows that “know” here is much more than just “knowing about”. They did know who Jesus was, yet they killed Him. Knowing or not knowing Jesus makes an enormous difference to the way a person lives.
16:4
“When their time comes ..” Ecclesiastes tells us there is a time for this and a time for that. There is a time when evil seems to triumph. It seemed to be triumphing when Jesus was arrested, when He was put on trial, when He was nailed to the cross. In Acts there were times when the church was persecuted, and such times have occurred periodically throughout history. Today they are occurring violently with IS, and now even in the West, though so far without the violence. We need to realise that God’s plans are very different than ours, and His understanding is far greater than ours.
The disciples may have thought Jesus should have warned them about this when He first called them. But they needed to get to know who Jesus was, otherwise they would have turned away right at the start.
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