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What lesson do you think Jesus taught the disciples by cursing the fig tree?

have faith, and don't doubt and whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

By: Mike Dunne
Category: The Fig Tree Withers

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Why did Jesus answer a question with a question, rather than just telling the Pharisees by what authority He acted?

It doesn’t occur in the Gospels that Jesus ever attempted to usurp their authority by a physical display of power but, rather, He simply moved in the authority that had been bestowed on Him from God the Father.

The established religious authority no doubt justified their actions by claiming divine authority in the things they were doing - Caiaphas certainly did (John 11:49-50) - and it’s interesting to note that Jesus, when challenged, doesn’t attempt to justify Himself before them but allows them to decide for themselves - something which they’d already done but with the wrong conclusion. inherent within their question there appears to have been deliberate trickery that was designed to compel Jesus to confess that He didn’t have Rabbinic authority and, if not, that His words didn’t have the authority of themselves who ‘sat on Moses’ seat’ (Mtw 23:2).

By: Mike Dunne
Category: The Authority of Jesus Questioned

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Why did Jesus answer a question with a question, rather than just telling the Pharisees by what authority He acted?

THE PHARISEES WHATED TO USED JESUS ANSWER AGAINST HIM BECAUSE THEY KNEW HE IS THE SON OF GOD.THEY WANTED TO KILL HIM BUT HAD NO EVIDENCE AGAINST JESUS.

By: Johan louw
Category: The Authority of Jesus Questioned

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