Two followers ask a favor at the wrong time. Will Jesus hear two blind men asking to be healed?
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Jesus has just described how he will die—and that he will rise again. Do James and John seem genuinely concerned? If they are, they have a strange way of showing it.
Notice Jesus doesn’t scold them. He gives an honest answer to their request. And expands on that to describe genuine humility.
Two more people have a request, but they’re very humble already. Will Jesus give them what they ask?
Week 4: Genuine