IN THE SILENCE

Some scholars criticize the New Testament because the same words of Jesus are repeated in a different Gospel under different circumstances or in a slightly different form.

But Jesus came to teach. Why wouldn’t He have repeated the same or a similar message many, many times to different audiences whenever the opportunity was presented?

It wasn’t like the AP wire services were going to publish His message and let everyone in Israel read it in their morning paper or the Evening News repeat His sound bites at six and eleven. It was more like the whistlestop tours of politicians. Listen to campaign speeches!

{From A Journal of the Spirit, a Journey of the Soul, by D.C. Ice, Jan. 14, 1999.}