Real Authority
Who really has authority on earth?
The chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to Yeshua, who had just cleaned the robbers out of the Temple, and said:
Marqos 11 28and they said to Him, “By what authority are You doing these? And who gave You this authority to do these?”
Authority to do what things?
Besides cleaning out the temple, casting out demons from the demonically oppressed, healing the sick, deaf, blind and lame, and raising the dead; doing many miracles demonstrating authority over nature itself. Teaching the real meaning of the Torah and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom – and actually putting the Kingdom into operation – to summarize the many thousands of amazing things that Yeshua did.
Oh, let me see. Where could He possibly have received authority to do those things?
From Herod? No. There is no record of the Herods ever doing any of that.
From Caesar then? No. Not even the Emperor of Rome could do any of that.
Perhaps from “the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders”? What a joke. They couldn't do any of that either.
Can you believe it? They actually said: “By what authority do you do these things?” to the Son of God!
Now, some might want to excuse their stupid and insubordinate question by suggesting they didn't know of the matchless deeds that authenticated Yeshua as being sent with divine authority. However, ignorance is no excuse for treason. Besides, they were not ignorant. As we have gone through the Gospel accounts these people and/or their representatives were constantly popping up to challenge Yeshua at every turn. There can be no doubt that they knew of His amazing deeds – this is why they hated them – and Him.
None is so blind as he who will not see. They were beneficiaries of the power of the system, the status quo, and they were not going to give that up.
The real truth is: they needed to find some pretext on which to attempt to invalidate His authority, because they could not compete for one second with what He had done and could continue to do. Hence, the question:
“By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”
The more things change the more they stay the same.
End-of-week: day 6 (friday) 22 november/ Einde-van-week: dag 6 (vrydag) 22 november 2024
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