The Healing At The Pool Flashcards
How did Jesus anger the religious leaders?
By questioning their authority and interpretation of the Law
What did Jesus do on the Sabbath?
Healed a crippled man
What did the religious authorities not accept this as?
what did they see it as?
An act of God
- a deliberate and punishable breaking of the commandment to ‘Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy… on it you shall not do any work’
When the authorities questioned Jesus about this what did he do?
He stunned them by talking of his unique relationship with God
“My Father is always at his work to this very day, and i, too, am working… whatever the Father does the Son also does”
By Jesus telling the authorities of his unique relationship with God what did he do?
what would have the religious authorities thought?
He declared that he was the Son of God
- it was blasphemy
- was a direct challenge to their status and authority
(Jesus was making himself equal with God)
Throughout the gospel what do the religious authorities refuse to consider
the fact that Jesus might, indeed, be the Son of God
What do the religious authorities call Jesus?
- demon-possessed
- illegitimate
- Samaritan
What did the religious authorities do to Jesus
- tried to arrest him in vein
- stoned him
Why are the Jews often the villains in the Gospel
- they prosecuted Jesus
- misunderstood him
- they are the ones who refused to believe in him
