Numbers 10 and 11, Luke 3: 1-22, Psalm 41: 7-13
Luke 3: 21-22 (ESV)
“Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also
had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit
descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven,
“You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
I like verses 21-22 from Luke 3. I would have loved to have
been in the crowd when this happened. Were all the people freaked out? Did everyone
hear the voice? Or was it only the people around Christ and John at the time? Did
a report go to the Sanhedrin about it? The baptism of Jesus by John shows up in
all of the four gospels, so it definitely happened. We just don’t have the
little details about the event. I would like to think that if I had been there
and heard the voice and saw the dove, I would have remembered and been awed by
the event and told people about it. I’m sure there were some people present who
experienced the miracle and dismissed it as a hallucination. Others would have
convinced themselves that they weren’t sure what they saw. Others would have
been so freaked out, they would have blocked the event from their memories and said
they saw and heard nothing. It’s easy I think to speculate on what you might
do, but unless you were actually there you have no idea how you would have reacted
to this event. Miracles are such a strange thing in our world.
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