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🗓️ 28 November 2025
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When Jesus taught, crowds gathered—but not everyone came for the right reasons. Some sought His wisdom. Others just wanted to witness a miracle or get a free meal. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg looks at how the crowds’ questions revealed their hearts.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Whenever Jesus taught, crowds gathered, but not everyone in the crowd was there for the right reasons. |
| 0:32.8 | Some sought the promised Messiah, others were looking for a political king. |
| 0:37.6 | Some just wanted to witness a miracle or get a free meal. |
| 0:41.6 | Today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:42.9 | Alistur Begg looks at how our questions often reveal our hearts |
| 0:47.4 | and whether or not we really understand who Jesus is. |
| 0:57.9 | Thank you. who Jesus is. Well, we turn to the Gospel of John to Chapter 6 for our reading, beginning at the 22nd verse. |
| 1:06.6 | And here in the scriptures, we are able to see Jesus as he has been revealed to us. |
| 1:14.6 | And having fed the 5,000 and walked out to his disciples on the water, |
| 1:19.4 | John tells us about what was happening on the following day. |
| 1:24.1 | On the next day, the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been |
| 1:29.5 | only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his |
| 1:35.9 | disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberius came near the place where they'd eaten |
| 1:42.3 | the bread after the Lord had given thanks. |
| 1:46.2 | So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into |
| 1:52.6 | the boats and went to Copernium, seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the |
| 1:58.8 | sea, he said to him, Rabbi, when did you come here? |
| 2:03.3 | Jesus answered them, truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me not because you saw signs, |
| 2:10.3 | but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which |
| 2:18.6 | the Son of man will give to you, for on Him God the Father has set his seal. Then they said |
| 2:26.0 | to him, What must we do to be doing the works of God? Jesus answered them, this is the work |
| 2:33.9 | of God that you believe in Him whom He has sent. |
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