PT-2 Intro to “Life’s Most Important Question” (Luke 9:18-22)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/15/2026 8:32 PM

My Worship Time                                      Focus PT-2 Intro to “Life’s Most Important Question”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                 Reference:  Luke 9:18-22

Bible Reading & Meditation   “And it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the people say that I am?”  They answered and said, “John the Baptist, and others say Elijah; but others, that one of the prophets of old has risen again.”  And He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.”  But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone, since, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the third day.”

            I will pick up from where I left of earlier this afternoon:  “The Twelve testified that Jesus was Messiah, Savior, and Lord.  Recognizing that he was a sinner in the presence of holy God, Peter ‘fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, ‘Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!’ (5:8).  After Jesus stilled a raging storm on the Sea of Galilee, the apostles ‘were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, ‘Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?’ (8;25).  Immediately after the feeding in Galilee, the disciples were crossing the lake in a storm when Jesus appeared in the night, walking on the water.  Matthew records that ‘those who were in the boat worshipped Him, saying, ‘You are certainly God’s Son!’ (Mat t. 14:33).  But it is here in Luke 9 that the Twelve made a clear, precise, and definitive affirmation that Jesus was the promised Messiah.  It comes in Luke’s narrative immediately after the climactic miracle of the Lord’s Galilean ministry, the feeding of the multitude, although the two events did not actually take place in immediate sequence.  In the intervening time, Jesus ministered in the largely Gentile regions of Tyre and Sidon and the Decapolis easter side of the Sea of Galilee (See Matt. 14:22-16:12, Mark 6:45-8:26).” (You will have to look those up on your own.) “Some question why Luke failed to record those intervening events.  But the vast amount of material available to the inspired gospel writers forced them to be selective (cf. John 21:25).” 

(cf. John 21:25)

“25  Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”

“Luke skipped the intervening material, recorded by Matthew and Mark, because doing so fit the thematic flow of this section of his gospel.  In 8:25 Luke introduced the question of Jesus’ identity when he recorded the disciples’ fearful question, ‘Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?’  Herod Antipas asked uneasily, ‘I myself had John beheaded; but who is this man about whom I her such things?’ (9:9).  The people, influenced by their messianic expectations and their religious leaders, remained confused about who Jesus really was… To insert material that would divert his readers from his focus on Jesus’ identity did not serve Luke’s purpose.”

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