It’s quite clear that Jesus and his followers are on
different planes. Jesus is talking on a
spiritual plane while the disciples are earthbound in their understanding. Jesus has just finished letting them know
that there is a sense of satisfaction that is lost on those who settle for the
readily accessible and easily understood.
“You have no idea what I’m talking about, but I have food you haven’t
tasted yet!”
They would someday, but they certainly had no idea what he
was talking about at that moment. When
he says he had food they immediately begin to wonder out loud who could have
brought him sustenance. I would not be
surprised at all to discover they may have gotten more than a bit annoyed that someone
had made their trip into town superfluous.
They may have gone through a number of scenarios, none of which made
sense to them. In the end it doesn’t matter,
because they are dealing with the knowledge Jesus has just given them as mere
information to be processed.
The apostle Paul would one day echo the sentiment when he
says, “The man without the Spirit does not
accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1
Corinthians 2:14 NIV) It is easy to fall
prey to merely dealing with the crumbs of a flesh-anchored world when the
banquet of the spiritual realm awaits us if we are willing to delve in
completely and dig a little deeper into the Word.
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