Posted on 12/07/2018 10:10:01 AM PST by Morgana
They didn’t get it wrong- they weren’t sayying only pharisees coudl commit it- their poitn was that these pharisees were i ndanger of beign so hardened that they would never accept the truth and of havign the Holy Spirit stop convicting them because their hearts were hardened beyond repair-
“They were rejecting it by attributing Jesus’ works to the power of the devil. They weren’t just doubting or even denying the truth. They were maliciously contradicting what they had witnessed with their own eyes.”
These folks were maliciously rejecting Christ or in danger of doing so, and Jesus was warning them that if they stepped over the line, they could never be forgiven
that's just a guess, too.
Nobody saw Him so nobody knows for sure.
The pharisees certainly never criticized his looks, and I don't doubt that if He was lacking in that area, or His stature, they would have not failed to mention it.
That could also have been referring to Him on the cross.
Is 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Grow up....not about the crucifixion yet.
This amazing prophecy shows Jesus when growing up and the Jewish reaction to him. He wasn’t esteemed, he was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. (Death of Joseph?)
Remember? He was just the carpenter’s son. How could he be doing this stuff? He wasn’t esteemed at all.
And then it gets much worse.
But I’m a literalist with the bible. Perhaps you aren’t. I don’t know.
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