In this morning's text we'll find
Jesus once again in the midst of conflict. There are several layers, but the
one that I want to look at has to do with the Sabbath. Jesus has a little
debate on the proper use of the Sabbath, and he uses the thinking of his
opponents to show that they are inconsistent in challenging him. We're not
going to look at how he does that today. I thought that it would be good,
first, to take another look at the Sabbath. We might come back to this text and
consider how Jesus confounds his antagonists, but not today. Today, we're just
going to think about the Sabbath. Our text is John 7.10-24.