CLAIMING to be WISE

The Bible warns about the seductive nature of intellectual pride in chapter one of Romans, verse twenty-two when it says, “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.” This is illustrated in our scripture reading passage below as we see the difference in the Pharisees rejection of Christ and the common folk as they readily believed in and followed him.

(John 7:45-52) 45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” 46 “No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied. 47 “You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted. 48 “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”

50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, 51 “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?” 52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”

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