Why is Jesus given these weird indirect dancers when important people are asking him to just announce that he's the king of the Jews or the Christ?

Why doesn't Jesus just come out and scream from the mountaintops at the very beginning of his time on earth? I am God in the flesh, I am God in the flesh, I'm the Christ, the Messiah, behold I have lightning hands and eye lasers, check it out, it's awesome,

I can't even fly if I want to do. Why does he do all that stuff?

Everybody would have been super impressed.

But instead he takes this different tack

where he's letting other people and reality

and the way he fulfills the law and the prophets the whole story that's out there

he's letting all of that do the heavy lifting in terms of proclaiming him to be the

Christ and the Messiah he doesn't shoot people down or argue when they say that. He never tells them they're wrong, but he's not out screaming it from the mountaintops, at least verbally with his words.

And as we were talking about last time around, that becomes pretty evident when you look at these three little uses of, you're the one who said it, you say so, kind of phrases here in Matthew chapters 26 and 27 he fires one of those off at

Judas after Judas protests and is like what I'm not like surely it's not going to be me

who betrays you he fires one of those off at the religious

leadership when they're like under oath, tell us the truth, are you the Christ, the

son of God? And he fires one of those off a chapter later when Pontius

pilot with a degree of indifference and confusion and

irritation that he even has to deal with any of this stuff says are you the king of

the Jews and Jesus says the same kind of thing to him you've said it is so

so I'm gonna have Tina play a little bit of music here and then we'll keep

sorting that all through together. I think all of this confession of Christ's language is apparent from the Gentiles in chapter 15 that's 15 right with the Canaanite

woman up north who calls him the son of David I think this theme of confession

comes through as well right after the sermon on the mount with the blind man and

Capurnium who call him the son of David and then I think the theme of

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