I find it interesting that Jesus spent so much time teaching the Pharisees. They were His greatest opponents, yet shortly after He shares with a Samaritan prostitute we find Him with the religious leaders trying to teach them. Here He pointed out that they did the right thing to a certain extent. They did search the Scriptures. They knew that that is where they could find eternal life. The problem is that that had focused on the law and created traditions while missing the key. Jesus told them that they needed to realise that Jesus spoke of Him. All that they had been reading, searching, and studying was fine, but they needed to see Him in the Scriptures.
There is a lesson for us here. That is the importance of us searching the Scriptures ourselves. It is only there that we find the testimony of Christ. We can’t know about Christ by all of the things that vie for our attention. The only way to learn of Christ is to continue searching the scriptures ourselves. We are not going to be Christ-like if we don’t know what He was like,
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