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Author Topic:   Jesus: A Man Who Craved Attention?
Brian
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04-04-2006 2:04 PM


If the stories about Jesus in the Gosples were true, then He appeared to love to be the centre of attention. He certainly didn’t go out of His way to keep out of the limelight.
To illustrate this, I would like to use three examples from the NT which demonstrate that Jesus was a bit of a show off as His actions were really not required.
First is in Mark 7:33-25
After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!" ). At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.
Then Mark 8:23
He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"
And John 9:6-7
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 7"Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
Now, we got three incidents where Jesus uses His saliva to conjure up a cure, but why did He do that?
Look at this reference:
Matthew 8:5-13
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. 6"Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering."
Jesus said to him, "I will go and heal him."
The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, "I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! It will be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour.
Now, Jesus didn’t even need to be present to cure someone, so what was all the showmanship with the saliva about?
Topic then, did Jesus crave the limelight?

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04-04-2006 11:48 PM


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