In Genesis 22, Abraham answered “God will provide a sheep for
the burnt offering, my son.” It is amazing to me that Moses adds the words, “ To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: ‘On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.’” Now in our time, we of course can see that this points to the provision of the Lamb of God on the mountain called Calvary.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/gen.24.nlt
As seen in Job 12, Job by now is pretty ticked off, starting off with
“You people really know everything, don’t you?
And when you die, wisdom will die with you!”
Note the irony Job points out:
I am a just and blameless man,
yet they laugh at me.
5 People who are at ease mock those in trouble.
They give a push to people who are stumbling.
6 But robbers are left in peace,
and those who provoke God live in safety—
though God keeps them in his power.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/job.13
In yesterday's reading Jesus fed the 4,000, and then the Pharisees demand a miraculous sign “from heaven”. The reading yesterday ended with the disciples not understanding what Jesus meant by “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
Translation notes:
23 Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then, [applying his own spit to//spitting on] the man’s eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, “Can you see anything now?”
The Greek does actually say that Jesus 'spit' in the man's eyes, but to spit in someone's face is so objectionable that more than one translation softens this a bit!
27 Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the
villages near Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along,
he asked them, “[What do people say as to the position/role I am assuming?”//Who do people say I am?”]
Normally in our language if Jesus said, “Who do people say I am,” the answer would be “Jesus”. Jesus was not asking about his name, so we need a different question opener than “Who”.
28 “Well,” they replied, “some say [you are taking the
position of] John the Baptist, some say [you are replacing]
Elijah, and others say you are [filling the role of] one of the
other prophets.”
29 Then he asked them, “[But in your opinion, whose position am I taking?”//But who do you say I am?”]
…
31 Then Jesus began to tell them that [he— as] the Son of Man, must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He [said, “I will be] killed, but three days later [I will/he would] rise from the dead.
The changes in this paragraph are made to show that Jesus is not talking about some third person named the Son of Man, but about himself. Even in English, a man seldom talks about himself using the pronoun 'he'.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/mrk.8
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