What sign can you do?

John 6:30-35 If I wasn't in the same boat as these sinners following Jesus I would probably be laughing right in their face. I often wonder how Jesus kept from rolling on the grass laughing at what some people do. Today we hear the crowd ask Him, "What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?..." Is this not the same crowd who in verse 2 we are told - "followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick ."? Are these not the same people who in verse 14 " when they saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world."? Yet still they seek a sign. However, they are not seeking a sign so that they might believe, they are wanting to be fed. Jesus worked a "sign" with the loaves and the fishes and now they want Him to do it again. Wisely, Jesus is using their bellies to get to their hearts; He is using earthly things to move them,

Everlasting King



Luke 9:7-9

An earthly king
doth question who
be the man who dost such things
Be he a prophet
or Elijah of old
or the one whose neck made sword to ring

The king's perplexed
his vision blurred
his past and future vexed
can bone and sinew
join the spirit and the living flesh

Tis not a prophet
from of old
nor the bane of Baal he sees
tis not the Voice
no, none of these
tis the everlasting King.

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