Jesus the Prophet

Killed
Called – Pastor, teacher
Guided

16 “But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Matthew 13 v 16-17

Now that we know that Jesus was and is the Son of God, we tend to forget what else he was. To his disciples, in the scintillating three years between the encounter that took them away from their nets and tax-tables and the resurrection that finally showed him to be God, he was above all else a prophet. Like Elijah before him, he took a small band of followers, travelled with them and showed them how to see the world differently.

The task of the prophet, the biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann writes is, “to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture.”

This Jesus did through parables and teaching, through miracles and acts of love.

In just three years, he established a vision of life so powerful that it has funded the imagination of the church for 20 centuries.

I am currently writing a commentary series on Mark’s gospel, the focus of which is how Jesus turned the norm upside down. Mark’s Gospel series.