So, the first thing he said to them was: \u201cYou are wrong.\u201d He didn\u2019t say, let\u2019s discuss this further. He didn\u2019t offer to organize a seminar on differing visions of the afterlife. He didn\u2019t decide to have a conversation on the subject. He simply said: \u201cYou are wrong.\u201d Kind of blunt. Kind of direct. But, friends, this is the only Jesus we know. This is the canonical Jesus. He used strong terms. And he did not suffer fools gladly. It\u2019s kind of refreshing \u2013 certainly different from the \u201cgentle Jesus, meek and mild\u201d that many of us were brought up on in Sunday School. I\u2019m not saying that Jesus isn\u2019t loving. He\u2019s incredibly loving. But like C. S. Lewis\u2019 Lion Aslan, he is good; but he is not tame.<\/p>\n
The second thing that Jesus said to them was \u201cyou are ignorant of the Scriptures.\u201d \u201cYou are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.\u201d (v.29) This was like waving a red flag before a bull. They were the scholars, the elites, the educated ones. They had been to seminary. And they had degrees after their names. And who was he? Somebody from a nowhere place up north….<\/p>\n