Many Believe In Him (John 10:40-42 ESV)

 

That's it!  That's what you have to do!  You have to ascertain if whatever is said about Jesus is true or not.

Look at who the messenger is.  Is he reliable, a person of integrity?   Someone like what preacher and evangelist Billy Graham had been.  But the messenger doesn't even have to be of such worldwide reknown, it could be the quiet brother or sister-in-Christ who is almost invisible to others.  Even so, whomever the messenger, prove their words.  The many who came to see Jesus in that place by the Jordan River where John the Baptizer had been baptizing repentant people, came to believe.  Why so?  Because they respected John the Baptizer, so they trusted John the Baptizer's words.  Nevertheless they did check it out for themselves.  This is known as noble character.

Their conclusion was,

"...everything John said about this man was true."

That caused many of them to believe in Jesus right then and there.

Some of the things we know that John the Baptizer said about Jesus is that

 "He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).  

He also said Jesus was greater than him and that he wasn't even worthy to unlatch Jesus' sandals.

In those days, the servants' servant would be the one to wash peoples' feet and deal with their footwear.  These people believed John the Baptizer to be great.  Yet John the Baptizer put himself in a position as a very lowly, lowly servant (according to the society's perspective of those times).  Therefore, how ever more shocking the contrast in superiority Jesus was placed by John the Baptizer for the throngs who came to him and heard his words.

Actually John the Baptizer didn't place Jesus there,  Jesus was already superior.  However, I state it this way as I believe it would be how the general populace of those times would have been able to relate and view Jesus' position of great importance - a VVIP.

And these people were as noble as the Bereans of Paul's acquaintance (see Acts 17:11).  The Bereans had been described as being "noble" because they searched the Scriptures to see if what Paul was saying about Jesus, was true.

Truth seekers were some of the people who had come to see Jesus out there by the Jordan River.  They too wanted to check it out for themselves.

So I hope that nowadays, we too, will search the Scriptures to see, learn, know understand and accept that everything said about Jesus, based on Scripture, is true.  May many then believe in Him wherever they are in this world.

Amen.

                                             ~  ERC  October 2025  ~

Based on John 10:40-42 ESV.

Sing, I Believe In Jesus, along with Keith Matthew.