Sunday 13 October 2024

Jesus drew the crowds

Not far from the end of the Jesus account we read:
David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?” The large crowd listened to him with delight (Mark 12:37 NIV). But - why were the crowd delighted? Apart from the members of the elite whom Jesus questioned, was it true of everyone else there?
Not so long before that, there was a (different) crowd that was far from delighted, in fact it was dangerously disturbed: