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   ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 08:29:19 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?
   ==Holy Week 2025: Day 3==
   
   :ina_blessed: April 15, 2023: Holy Tuesday :cc_smile:
   
   Konbanwa, Fediverse! :ump9waving:
   
   Like I mentioned yesterday, while certain traditions place certain activities and words of Christ for particular days of this Holy Week, the Bible is not so neat and tidy with what goes when. That is why for today, we will look at certain challenges the Sanhedrin made to Christ, while Christ and the disciples were in Herod's Temple, even if He made those challenges on one of the other days. Most likely, events like asking about Caesar (Mat 22:16-22; Mar 12:14-17, Luke 20:21-25) or the question of Christ being the Son of David (Luke 20:41-44) were spread over these days since Palm Sunday, though we know they all had to be done before Thursday evening.
   
   Let us take a look at the question about David. Matthew places this question right after a lawyer asks Christ what is the greatest commandment in chapter 22. The Synoptic Gospels also give this question, with Mark briefly recording it in 12:35-37 and Luke in 20:41-44. Both Mark and Luke add the question after an interesting parentheses, that Christ asked this after the Sanhedrin, rabbis, and scribes all "no longer dared ask another question." (Lk. 20:40) Perhaps this statement can shine a light on the meaning of the question.
   
   This is the question, as recorded by Luke:
   "But [Jesus] said to them, 'How can they say that the Christ is David's son?
   For David himself says in the Book of Psalms [110:1], 'The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,
   until I make your enemies your footstool.''
   David thus calls him Lord, so how is [the Christ] his son?'"
   
   None of the elites could answer the question (Matt. 22:46). Some of us today would immediately answer, "Well, Jesus is both God and man, which is why He can be both David's Lord in Psalm 110 as well as the Son of David." This is true on the surface, yet that ease for us betrays the problem. Back in the time of Christ, there were no centuries of theological discussions, debates, councils, and creeds. There were no hundreds of commentaries and background books. There was no New Testament yet, not even a written record of the life, actions, and words of Christ. There was no hindsight of the Cross or Empty Tomb. The best you had was the Old Testament Scriptures already given, and the Jewish elites were seen as the only ones capable of teaching the truths of those words. Yet, Christ exposed how deeply inadequate the religious teachers and priests were for feeding the people of God spiritually, having understanding of "neither the Scriptures nor of the power of God" (Matt 22:29).
   
   Mere, rote theological knowledge by itself will not help you know God. As Paul says to the Corinthians, "Spiritual truths" are discerned by "the spiritual", and that "the natural person" cannot accept them (2:13-14). Only those "born again" by the Spirit of God can know and understand truly all important truths about God, His Son, the Word, and the Gospel that saves (John 3:3). Without God, you cannot understand why Christ can be God and man. Without Christ, you cannot understand the means to reconcile your sinful self, with a holy God. Please turn from your sins and believe in Him who has the treasures of wisdom and understanding (Col. 2:3).
   
   May God give you that new birth and a blessed Holy Tuesday. :02_heart: