Scolding the Apostles
Of the five thousand people who were miraculously fed—and who when their stomachs were full and their hearts empty would have made Jesus king—only about five hundred continued to follow him. But before everyone realized that Jesus was back in Bethsaida, he asked Andrew to bring together the apostles and others, including the women. When everyone was present, Jesus said “How long will I bear with you? Are you all slow of spiritual comprehension and lacking in living faith? All these months I have taught you the truths of the kingdom and yet you are dominated by material motives instead of spiritual considerations. Have you not read in the scriptures where even Moses urged the unbelieving children of Israel, saying ‘Fear not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord’? Said the singer, ‘Put your trust in the Lord.’ ‘Be patient, wait on the Lord and be of good courage. He will strengthen your heart.’ ‘Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you. Trust him at all times and pour out your heart to him, for God is your refuge.’ ‘He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty.’ ‘It is better to trust the Lord than to put confidence in human princes.’
“Now can you all see that working miracles and performing wonders will not win souls for the spiritual kingdom? We fed the people, but it did not lead them to hunger for the bread of life or to thirst for the waters of spiritual righteousness. When their hunger was satisfied they did not seek to enter into the kingdom of heaven, but instead tried to make the Son of Man king like the kings of this world only so that they could continue to eat bread without having to work for it. And all of this that many of you more or less participated in does nothing to reveal the heavenly Father or to advance his kingdom on Earth. Do we not have enough enemies among the religious leaders without doing what is likely to also upset the civil rulers? I pray that the Father will open your eyes so that you can see and open your ears so that you can hear so that in the end you will have full faith in the gospel that I have taught you.”
Son of Man: Urantia, Ch. 31, Events Leading up to the Capernaum Crisis
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