A full day

This picture has NOTHING to do with today’s post…although I guess if you tried really hard you could make a comment about the sun setting on Jesus’ time here on earth.  This picture was taken at The Elder (but not old) Huckablog’s compound.  How lucky are they to have this view every night?

Jesus was really getting around that last Tuesday, to the temple, to the temple courts, to some teaching through parables, to Bethany for dinner……The last Tuesday according to Matthew.  All of this is word for word from Matthew 21-26, but I did leave out some of the parables since I am trying to just show  a time line of Jesus’ last week.

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Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, ” ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers. (Hey You’s P.S.  I think this actually happened on MONDAY, but I missed it and am adding it to today since it is so important.)

Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?”
Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?”

They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.”
So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.” Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

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He is getting tired of us I think.   He just seems to be overall angry on Tuesday.  Who am I to try to read the emotions of the Lord?  I just think it helps ME understand better when I project those human emotions on Him, he is, after all, still very much a man at this point.  Your thoughts?

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