Jesus and His apostles
Jesus is talking to the apostles and they are listening to what
he
says. What is
he telling them that they are listening to so attentively
? Jesus is telling the
apostles that some day the people will kill him.
For although Jesus has been
so kind to them, making sick persons well,
and blind persons see, and dead
persons alive again, yet the people do
not love him for this. And why do they
not love Jesus ? Because he has
told them about their sins. Their sins are
the bad things that they do,
and Jesus says they must stop doing those things;
for if they do not
stop, God will punish them.
But the people do not want to
stop, and they do not want to be told
about their sins. They are angry at
Jesus for telling about them, and
they want to kill him, so that he cannot
speak about them any more.
But Jesus knows what they are going to do to
him, and now he tells the
apostles that some day the people will kill him.
But he says he will
come to life again after they have killed him.
Mark 9:30