Simply Read

[254 words] Have you not read? This phrase is used several times by Jesus when someone was asking him a doctrinal question (Matthew 12:3, 19:4, 21:16, 21:42 Mark 12:26). Many times these questions were asked as traps to try to force him into offending a particular audience or to make him look bad. Yet Jesus answered this tough question with this simple thought: “Have You Not Read?” In doing, so he makes the answer not his alone. He places the burden of answering on another authority. It is not because Jesus doesn’t have the authority to answer, but by doing so he shows that the question isn’t a matter of coming up with your own personal take but seeing the direction God has placed in his word. Maybe we should do the same. People oftentimes will question our beliefs and practices. They may do so out of genuine curiosity but…