To Believe in Jesus – Part 125

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 11:11-16
11ཡང་ཁོང་གིས་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། བདག་ཅག་གི་གྲོགས་ལཱ་ཟར་གཉིད་དུ་ཡུར་བས་ང་རང་ཁོ་བསླང་དུ་འགྲོ་ཞེས་གསུངས་སོ།། 12དེ་ནས་ཐུགས་སྲས་རྣམས་ན༌རེ། གཙོ་བོ༌ལགས། ལཱ་ཟར་གཉིད་དུ་ཡུར་བ་ཡིན་ན་ནད་སོས་པར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་སྨྲས་སོ།། 13སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་ལཱ་ཟར་ཤི་ཟིན་པ་མཁྱེན་ནས་དེ་སྐད་གསུངས་ནའང་ཐུགས་སྲས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ལཱ་ཟར་དངོས་གནས་གཉིད་དུ་ཡུར་བ་ལ༌གོ་བ་རེད། 14དེའི༌ཕྱིར། སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་ཐུགས་སྲས་རྣམས་ལ་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། ལཱ་ཟར་ཤི་ཟིན༌ཏོ།། 15འོན་ཀྱང་ཁྱོད་རྣམས་དད་པར་འགྱུར་བའི༌ཕྱིར། ང་རང་སྔར་དེར་མེད་པ་ལ་དགའོ།། ད་ལྟ་བདག་ཅག་ལཱ་ཟར་སྡོད་པའི་ཡུལ་དུ་འགྲོའོ་ཞེས་གསལ་པོར་གསུངས་སོ།། 16དེ་ནས་ཐུགས་སྲས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཁྲོད་དུ་མིང་གཞན་ལ་མཚེ་མ་ཞེས་འབོད་པའི་ཐོ་མཱ་ཡིས་ཐུགས་སྲས་གཞན་རྣམས་ལ། བདག་ཅག་ཀྱང་ཁོང་དང་ལྷན་དུ་འཆི་རུ་འགྲོའོ་ཞེས་སྨྲས༌སོ།།

John 11:11-16
11 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” 12 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

So here Jesus tells His disciples plainly Lazarus had died.

The conversation between Jesus and His disciples had been on the issues of “sleep” and “death”, and Jesus finally tells them what He meant, that Lazarus had died.

How do you think Jesus’ disciples would had responded? Most likely kept silence for the moment.

I think Jesus’ disciples might had been struggling in their minds – one moment Jesus said Lazarus is asleep, next He said :Lazarus is dead! What will Jesus say next?

Right after that Jesus said this

 

15འོན་ཀྱང་ཁྱོད་རྣམས་དད་པར་འགྱུར་བའི༌ཕྱིར། ང་རང་སྔར་དེར་མེད་པ་ལ་དགའོ།། ད་ལྟ་བདག་ཅག་ལཱ་ཟར་སྡོད་པའི་ཡུལ་དུ་འགྲོའོ་ཞེས་གསལ་པོར་གསུངས་སོ།།

15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

Jesus said to His disciples “for your sake”.

Apparently Jesus was trying to deal with very deep foundational issues of faith among His disciples. He knew who believe and who continues to doubt and who do not believe.

This issue of believe runs deep throughout the gospel of John.

The first among the disciples of Jesus to manifest his doubts was Thomas! And this is the same Thomas that Jesus after His resurrection said to him –

 

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 20:29 – ཡང་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་ང་རང་མཐོང་ནས་ད་གཟོད་དད་པ་བྱས་པ༌ཡིན། ང་རང་མ་མཐོང་བར་དད་པ་བྱེད་མཁན་རྣམས་ནི་བདེའོ་ཞེས་གསུངས༌སོ།།

John 20:29 – Jesus said to him (Thomas), “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

From the conversation between Jesus and His disciples and there was no records of how Jesus responded to Thomas there and then, we can see the patience and grace of God for those struggling with their faith.

For sincere believers and those who do struggle with their faith in Christ, we can trust that Jesus will show us the truth if we are willing to continue to trust and obey and walk in His light.

Back in John 11, over in Judea, Lazarus’ family were expecting Jesus and their faith remains firm in times of difficulties – the death of a close family.

There is a similar situation whereby Jesus raised a dead person and Jesus addressed the same issue of believe

 

མཱཪ་ཀུ 5:22-24
22དེ་ནས་ཆོས་ཁང་གི་དབུ་འཛིན་པ་ཡ་ཨིར་ཟེར་བ་དེ་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུར་མཇལ་དུ་ཡོང་བ་དང་ཁོང་གི་ཞབས་དྲུང་དུ་ཕྱག་བཙལ་ཏེ་ན༌རེ། 23ངའི་བུ་མོ་ཆུང་བ་དེ་འཆི་ལ་ཉེ༌བས། ཁོ་མོ་ནད་ལས་ཐར་ཏེ་གསོན་པའི༌ཕྱིར། ཁྱེད་རང་ཕེབས་ནས་ཁོ་མོའི་ལུས་སྟེང་དུ་ཕྱག་འཇོག་པར་མཛོད་ཅེས་ཞུ་བ་ཡང་ཡང་བྱས་པ༌ལ། 24སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུའང་ཁོ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ཕེབས་པ་དང་མི་ཤིན་ཏུ་མང་པོའང་ཁོང་གི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲངས་ནས་འཚང་ཁ་བརྒྱབ་ཅིང་མཐའ་བསྐོར༌ཏོ།།

Mark 5:22-24
22 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him (Jesus), he fell at his feet 23 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” 24 And he (Jesus) went with him.

 

Jesus was on the way to Jairus’ house when His journey was disrupted by a woman who was struggling with an issues of blood for 12 years and got healed by Jesus.

མཱཪ་ཀུ 5:35-43
35ཡང་ཁོང་གིས་དེ་ལྟར་གསུང་བཞིན་པའི་དུས༌སུ། མི་འགའ་ཞིག་ཆོས་ཁང་གི་དབུ་འཛིན་པའི་ཁྱིམ་ནས་ཡོང་སྟེ་ན༌རེ། ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ་ཤི་ཟིན་པས་ད་ལྟ་སློབ་དཔོན་ལ་འོ་བརྒྱལ་ཅི་ལ་བྱེད་ཅེས་སྨྲས་པ༌ན། 36སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་གཏམ་དེ་གསན་ནས་ཆོས་ཁང་གི་དབུ་འཛིན་པ་ལ་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། མ་འཇིགས་པར་དད་པ་ཁོ་ན་བྱོས་ཤིག་ཅེས་གསུངས་པ༌དང༌། 37པེ་ཏྲོ་དང་ཡ༌ཀོབ། ཡ་ཀོབ་ཀྱི་སྤུན་ཡོ་ཧ་ནན་བཅས་ཁྲིད་པ་ལས་གཞན་སུ་ཡང་ཁོང་གི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་དུ་མ་བཅུག༌གོ། 38ཁོང་རྣམས་ཆོས་ཁང་གི་དབུ་འཛིན་པའི་ཁྱིམ་དུ་སླེབས་པ༌ན། སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་གནས་དེར་འུར་སྒྲ་ཆེ་བ་དང་མི་མང་པོ་ངུ་ཞིང་མྱ་ངན་བྱེད་བཞིན་པ་གཟིགས༌ཏེ། 39ཁྱིམ་ནང་དུ་ཕེབས་ཏེ་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། འུར་བརྒྱབ་ནས་ངུ་དོན་ཅི་ཡིན༌ནམ། བུ་མོ་འདི་ཤི་བ་མ་ཡིན་པར་གཉིད་འདུག་ཅེས་གསུངས་པ༌དང༌། 40མི་དེ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཁོང་ལ་འཕྱ་དགོད་བྱས་མོད་ཀྱང་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་ཁོ་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཕྱི་རོལ་ཏུ་བསྐྲད༌ཅིང༌། བུ་མོ་དེའི་ཕ་མ་དང་ཁོང་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ཡོད་པ་རྣམས་ཁྲིད་ནས་བུ་མོ་ཡོད་སར་ཕེབས་པ༌དང༌། 41ཁོང་གིས་བུ་མོའི་ལག་པར་འཇུས་ཏེ་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། ཏ་ལི་ཐཱ་ཀུ་མེ་ཞེས་བཀའ་གནང་ཞིང་དོན་ནི་འདི་ལྟ༌སྟེ། བུ་མོ་ཆུང༌ཆུང༌། ངས་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཡར་ལོངས་ཟེར་བ་ཡིན་ཞེས༌པའོ།། 42དེ་མ་ཐག་ལོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ལོན་པའི་བུ་མོ་དེ་ཡར་ལངས་ཤིང་འགྲོ་ཐུབ་པར་གྱུར་པས་གནས་དེར་ཡོད་པའི་མི་རྣམས་ངོ་མཚར་ཆེན་པོ༌སྐྱེས། 43སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་མི་དེ་རྣམས་ལ་དོན་འདི་མི་གཞན་སུ་ལའང་ཤེས་སུ་མི་འཇུག་པར་ནན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ༌ཞིང༌། བུ་མོ་དེ་ལ་ཁ་ཟས་སྟེར་དགོས་པའི་བཀའ་ཡང་གནང༌ངོ༌།།

Mark 5:35-43
35 While he (Jesus) was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” 36 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” 37 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 38 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. 41 Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” 42 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 43 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Jesus raised the dead and addressed the issue of believe.

And we have a well noted scripture in Hebrews for our reference and learning

 

ཨིབ་རི་པ། 11:1 – དད་པ་ནི་རེ་བ་བྱེད་པའི་དོན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བློ་གདེང་དང་མིག་གིས་མི་མཐོང་བའི་དོན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དཔང་རྟགས་ཡིན༌ལ།

Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

 

When we struggles with our faith we need to find our anchor of faith in the resurrection of Jesus!

To be continue …

David Z

 

To Believe in Jesus – Part 124

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 11:9-10
9ཡང་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། ཉིན་དཀར་གཅིག་ལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན༌ནམ། ཉིན་མོར་ལམ་ལ་སྐྱོད་མཁན་དེས་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་འོད་སྣང་མཐོང་བས་སར་མི་འགྱེལ༌ཡང༌། 10མཚན་མོར་ལམ་ལ་སྐྱོད་མཁན་དེར་འོད་སྣང་མེད་པས་སར་འགྱེལ་བར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ༌དང༌།

John 11:9-10
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Continuing on the point about Jesus being the light of the world.

When Jesus gave the instruction to go to Judea His disciples had their concern and questions as they had stayed away from Judea due to the hostility of fanatic Jews who wanted to kill their Master.

Jesus in His explanation uses the opposite comparison of day and night, contrast of light and darkness. And in previous post I pointed out that the key to understand what Jesus said here in John 11 is this particular remark He made in V9

light of this world.

And in v10 Jesus gave a negative warning about walking in the night –

 

10མཚན་མོར་ལམ་ལ་སྐྱོད་མཁན་དེར་འོད་སྣང་མེད་པས་སར་འགྱེལ་བར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ༌དང༌།

10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

 

The interesting English translation to note is the word “stumbles” and the reason being “the light is not in him”.

Jesus did not say that person stumbles because there is no illumination of light, in the environment as if we walk into a dark room and there is no lighting.

Jesus said – that person stumbles because the light is not in him, means within that person’s soul and mind there is no light, and what kind of light is Jesus referring to?

Apparently Jesus was teaching His disciples important lesson about the light of God’s truth, and walking in the light of God means to live in obedience to God’s teaching by means of trust and obedience.

The light of Jesus was shining brightly among the Jewish communities in Jerusalem because He is the light of God!

At that moment when Jesus said that, His disciples might had difficulties understanding what He meant.

For us today, we have the benefits of hindsight and we have the letters of the apostles to help us gain better understanding of what Jesus said here in John 11.

First let’s look at what Peter said that is related to contrast of light and darkness

པེ་ཏྲོ་དང་པོ། 2:9 – འོན་ཀྱང་། ཁྱོད་རྣམས་ནི་བདམས་ཟིན་པའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་དང་། རྒྱལ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་མཆོད་དཔོན། མི་རིགས་དམ༌པ། དཀོན་མཆོག་ལ་གཏོགས་པའི་མི་བཅས་ཡིན་ཏེ། དེ་ནི་ཁྱོད་རྣམས་མུན་ནག་ལས་ཁོང་གི་ངོ་མཚར་ཆེ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་ནང་དུ་ཞལ་འབོད་གནང་མཁན་ཁོང་གི་འཕྲིན་ལས་སྒྲོག་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ།།

1 Peter 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Peter recognized Jesus as the true light and faithfully follow Him.

Peter being called to shepherd the flocks of his Master, Jesus the Christ, teaches us how we believers had been delivered out of darkness by the power and will of God, through His redemption grace revealed in His Son Jesus Christ, that we should walk in the true light. Therefore we are called to trust and obey Jesus and walk in the light of God’s truth.

When we walk in the light of God’s truth we see very clear our future in Christ, but without the true light of God’s word, people stumbles in life.

Let’s look at the letters of Paul

ཨེ་ཕེ་སི་པ། 5:8 – དེ་སྔར་ཁྱོད་རྣམས་ནི་མུན་པ་ཡིན༌ཡང༌། ད་ལྟ་གཙོ་བོ་ལ་གཏོགས་ཤིང་འོད་ཟེར་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཡིན༌པས། འོད་ཟེར་གྱི་བུ་ཕྲུག་བཞིན་དུ་སྤྱོད་འོས་སོ།།

Ephesians 5:8 – For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Paul was remaining the Ephesians not to return to their old sinful ways of darkness which do not produce good fruits. And since they had been delivered from darkness by the power and grace Christ, they should walk in the light of God’s truth.

Let’s look at the letters of John

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན་དང་པོ། 1:5 – དཀོན་མཆོག་ནི་འོད་ཟེར་ཡིན་པས་ཁོང་ལ་མུན་ནག་གཏན་ནས་མེད་དོ།། འདི་ནི་ངེད་ཅག་གིས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུ་ནས་ཐོས་ཤིང་ཁྱོད་ཅག་ལ་སྒྲོག་པའི་བརྡ་འཕྲིན་ཡིན་ནོ།།

1 John 1:5 – This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

We know John was referring to Jesus.

The message of John in his letters was dealing with misleading teachings and false teachers who marginalized the destructive effects of sins that damages our relationship with Jesus Christ and will causes believers to loose their eternal hope in God the Father. In other words, it was warning against those who abuses and take for granted the grace of God and continued in their sinful ways and do not practice walking in the light of God’s truth.

And let’s look at what is written in Psalm

གསུང་མགུར། 119:105 – ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་བཀའ་ནི་མདུན་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མེ༌དང༌། །ང་ཡི་ལམ་གྱི་འོད་ཟེར་དེ་ཡང༌ཡིན།།

Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

 

In the days of the four gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John – Jesus was the true lamp of God that shine brightly among the people around Jerusalem and Judea.

Those who believed and followed Jesus were walking in the light of God’s truth but those who persistently rejected due to their religious and sectarian doctrines continue to live in darkness being blinded by their sins.

Jesus in His plan and intention to go to Judea again to raise Lazarus from the dead, He is going to show His disciple how the true light of God words will overcome darkness of this world.

To be continue …

David Z

 

To Believe in Jesus – Part 123

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 11:7-10
7ཁོང་གིས་ཐུགས་སྲས་རྣམས་ལ་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། བདག་ཅག་སླར་ཡང་ཡ་ཧུ་དཱའི་ཡུལ་དུ་འགྲོའོ་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ༌ལ། 8ཐུགས་སྲས་རྣམས་ན༌རེ། རཱབ་པེ་ལགས། ཁ་སང་ཙམ་ནས་ཡ་ཧུ་དཱ་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཁྱེད་རྡོ་རུབ་གཏོང་བར་རྩོམ༌ཡང༌། ཁྱེད་རང་ད་དུང་ཡུལ་དེར་ཕེབས་སམ་ཞེས་ཞུས་པ༌ན། 9ཡང་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། ཉིན་དཀར་གཅིག་ལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན༌ནམ། ཉིན་མོར་ལམ་ལ་སྐྱོད་མཁན་དེས་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་འོད་སྣང་མཐོང་བས་སར་མི་འགྱེལ༌ཡང༌། 10མཚན་མོར་ལམ་ལ་སྐྱོད་མཁན་དེར་འོད་སྣང་མེད་པས་སར་འགྱེལ་བར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ༌དང༌།

John 11:7-10
7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Again Jesus said something which His disciples would had find it very difficult to understand. And if we had been there at that time we would find it very difficult to understand as well.

However since it was spoken by their Master, the disciples went along with what Jesus intended – “Let us go to Judea again.”.

The disciples of Jesus warned Him about going to Judea again because it was Jesus’ initiative on previous occasion to stay away from Judea due to intense hostility from fanatic Jews who wanted to kill Him.

So why is Jesus going to Judea again?

In previous post I mentioned of Jesus’ friendship with Lazarus’ family and His willingness to risk His life for a close friend.

Now His disciples raised a valid question which Jesus seems obligated to answer.

In Jesus’ explanation about going to Judea again, which He previously wanted to avoid, He now use the opposite comparison of day and night, contrast of light and darkness.

The disciples of Jesus should had known the difference between day and night, but what did He mean by saying that in this context and circumstances?

Was Jesus speaking in some kind of hidden languages? Some kind of secret message? Allegory? Metaphor? What was Jesus talking about?

I believe the key to understand what Jesus said here in John 11 is this particular remark He made in V9

 

light of this world.

 

I believe Jesus in saying what He said, can be considered a reminder to His disciples – where else did Jesus said about being “light of the world”? Sounds familiar?

Just 2 chapters before John 11, we read this

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 9:5 – ང་རང་འཇིག་རྟེན་དུ་བཞུགས་དུས་བདག་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་འོད་ཟེར་ཡིན་ཞེས་གསུངས༌རྗེས།

John 9:5 – As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Remember in John 9 Jesus healed a man who was born blind and restored his sight.

The man born blind was happy and grateful to Jesus for restoring his sight, but the fanatic Jews who were against Jesus they were furious with both Jesus and the man born blind for breaking the the sabbath rule as according to their sectarian doctrines.

That was the circumstance Jesus taught them a very important lesson – He is the light of the world – and in that circumstances it was life lesson in comparison and contrast between what Jesus do and teaches vs what the religious establishment had been enforcing.

And 1 chapter before Jesus heals the man born blind –

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 8:12
12དེ་ནས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཡེ་ཤུས་མི་དེ་རྣམས་ལ་འདི་སྐད༌དུ། བདག་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་འོད་ཟེར་ཡིན༌ཞིང༌། ངའི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་མཁན་རྣམས་མུན་པའི་ནང་དུ་བགྲོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པར་ཚེ་སྲོག་གི་འོད་དང་ལྡན་པར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ༌དང༌།

John 8:12
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

 

John 8:1-12 – the incident of the woman caught in adultery, there are disagreement if this incident was actually included in the original script. Nevertheless what Jesus said in John 8:12 is a continuous teaching lesson from John 7 in His responses to questions and disputes raised by the Pharisees and fanatic Jews about His teachings.

The events of John 7 happened during the Feast of Booths also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot for the Jews in Jerusalem. Remember it was in the midst of that event that Jesus said

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 7:38 – སུ་ཞིག་གིས་བདག་ལ་དད་པ་བྱེད་ན། གསུང་རབ་ལས་གསུངས་པ་ལྟར་མི་དེའི་ཁོག་ནས་ཚེ་སྲོག་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཆུ་ནི་གཙང་པོ་བཞིན་དུ་འབབ་པར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་གསུངས་སོ།།

John 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

The events of John 7 had the extra important background info as it was considered the only recorded incident whereby the Sanhedrin sent their temple guards to arrest Jesus but they – the temple guards – eventually held back from arresting Jesus and we had records of sharp division within the religious leadership that forms the Sanhedrin.

Apparently the temple guards did not follow through with instructions from the Sanhedrin to arrest Jesus due to their conviction Jesus spoke the truth, and there were members of the Sanhedrin and among the Pharisees who begin to believe Jesus was speaking the truth.

We can go back all the way to the opening chapter of the gospel of John and we read this

ཡོ་ཧ་ནན། 1:4-5
4ཁོང་གི་ནང་དུ་ཚེ་སྲོག་བཞུགས་པ་དང༌།།
ཚེ་སྲོག་དེ་ནི་མི་ཡི་གཟི་འོད་དོ།།
5གཟི་འོད་ཉིད་ནི་མུན་པར་འཕྲོ་བྱེད༌ཀྱང༌།།
མུན་པ་དེ་ལས་རྒྱལ༌བར་མ་གྱུར་ཏོ།།

John 1:4-5
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

 

Jesus in His plan and intention to go to Judea again to raise Lazarus from the dead as according the will of the Father will, the purpose is to let His light shine very brightly so that more people will see the truth and believe.

 

To be continue …
David Z