Day 9 The King of Kings

The King of Kings

Have you ever read a scripture that really bugged you because you know it couldn’t mean what it seemed to be saying? I’ve had so many over the years. I love now to get to the bottom of such verses.

One is John 6:15

“Jesus, knowing they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself”. If Jesus really was the king (and He was), why did He seem to discourage the people from believing He was?

In the gospels every recognition of Jesus’ kingship by the people is in reaction to His miracles. The people rightly recognised Jesus as the true king of God’s people, but expected Him to overthrow the Roman occupying army using His miraculous powers.

Jesus was and is the true king of God’s people but His kingdom is a spiritual kingdom and not an earthly one – not of this world (John 16:36).

The final charge against Jesus that brought Him before the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish Council, and then before Caesar, was that He claimed to be the true king (Luke 23:2). He was charged and declared guilty of sedition, even though Pilate believed Him innocent of the charge. In Matthew 27:17 and 22, Pilate calls Jesus the “so called Christ.”

So Jesus’ reserve at accepting the term ‘king’ lay in the inability of the crowds to understand His kingdom, and their determination to have Him use His miraculous powers to overcome the Romans, and not because He was not the true king.

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