[John] said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
Matthew 11:3 #yeshua
I think there are two interpretations of John's question:
1. He was beginning to doubt what he had known his whole life, that Yeshua was the promised Messiah. He was asking for confirmation.
2. He was observing Yeshua's peaceful approach and wanted to know if there was one Messiah or two separate messiah's, one to suffer and atone for the people's sins and one to drive out foreigners and restore the throne.
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."
#gospelofjohn 3:5-6
The natural born Israelite must be born again, just like the grafted in. In a sense, all men must be grafted into the Root of Jesse, no matter who their parents might be or what religion they were brought up in.
On this date in history, 12/21/1968: Apollo 8 becomes the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit. #otd #tdih #aerospacehistory
Cody Bond
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