Dance or Weep?

Is it just me, or is that gospel reading a bit odd. What on earth is going on?

Jesus is teaching and some of John’s disciples come and see him to find out if he is the one that John had been waiting for and pointing to. Jesus points out all the signs of the kingdom, people bring healed and released from captivity and says, “look what’s going on, these things show that I am bringing the Kingdom that John announced was coming”

After the disciples go back to John, Jesus starts talking to the crowd about John and his message. The bit we just read was his summary of this discussion.

He quotes a children’s rhyme. Now, the great thing is, nobody now really knows exactly what this rhyme meant.

Continued here…

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