SLOW TO BELIEVE

John 2:18-22
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Jesus Clears the Temple

18 But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.”

19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” 21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.


Do you ever get frustrated when someone you are trying to tell something is hard to convince? You give them the best explanation you can but they just don’t get it. They refuse to believe.

Jesus’ disciples were like this. Slow to believe. Yes, they responded to His call. Yes, they followed him three years. But it was not until after the resurrection that they believed.

Remember this the next time you are witnessing for Jesus Christ to someone and they don’t get it right away. Our commission is to go and deliver the message. The timing of the outcome lies in God’s sovereignty.