Stumbling over Jesus

[jsimms615]

I was reading in John 7 today when I read John 7:23 where Jesus is talking to John the Baptist's disciples. Jesus said, "And blessed is he who keeps from stumbling over Me."
This was apparently after John had been sent into prison. For he didn't go to Jesus himself, but sent some of his disciples to talk to Jesus and question him. I have been wondering what that conversation was like for Jesus to hear that John was having doubts and perhaps discouraged in prison. I wonder if there is a note of sadness in his tone of voice in verse 23. What do you all think of that verse and conversation?

 

[icxn]

I guess you mean Luke 7:23?

Anyway, St. John did not have any doubts about Christ, his disciples did, so he send them to ask Him, hoping that they will join Him (Christ) and quit following him (John). But they were scandalized (that is the word used in the Greek, not stumbled) because they could only see a human person in Christ, not God incarnate, though His works (see verse 7:22) testified to the latter.

 

[plmarquette]

blessed are those who are not "offended " , the bait stick for a trap (scandelon) , in me

go and tell John (prophecy fulfilled) are not the dead raised, the lame walk , and the blind see

 

[dimwhitt]

John was having doubts because his concept of the messiah was that He would come and turn the old order upside down
and here is john, in prison and destitute - where is the reward of the righteous he had been promised all his life???

i think Jesus response was very tender and very stern
look at this great man John - but the least in the kingdom is greater than he - WOW