‘Well, you tell me.’

So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in him.”

- John 18, 37 & 38

So Socratic. It’s on them. When Jesus is questioned, Jesus always puts it back on them.

37 You tell me… Am I a king? Read 38 too!!

38 You tell me… What is the truth? Then in referrencing 37- You are wanting to know the truth, are you listening to my voice?

Did you notice- There was no need for Jesus to say a word in 38 in order for Pilate to make his decision? Not a word from Jesus.

Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished,

and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.”

Luke 2, 41 through 49

And Jesus is great…

And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Yeah why worry Mary, your son was only gone for three days? ;)

Can you imagine what was going through St. Joseph’s mind?

“Mary… just, stay, put. Please just stay put. Real great I just lost God himself. That’s all I need is to lose The Mother of God too.”

Mary & Jesus for sure both knew The Father’s House very very well.  That wonderful little Mary was always looking up to God  to know The Father’s wishes for His Son, and hers.  She kept these things in her heart…

and his mother kept all these things in her heart. 51

This is all these guys did; they were reading and studying Mosaic Law when Jesus enters.

He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”

Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
Luke 4, 16 through 20

‘Oh and ah here’s that back, don’t lose that.’  haha

“Who in the hel..” (22)

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” (And) Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
John 2, 1 through 10

Awesome. Jesus with his Mother. Did you notice… Mary told them to get ready even after the fact that Jesus had told her that now wasn’t the time. Mary still knew what was coming from her son.

‘Okay Mom, here You go.’ And he did, 180 gallons.

In this very instance one can experience the true power of The Twins Hearts- The Hearts of Mary and Jesus. A person can read this to both see and feel that the two were truly sent to change this world in every possible way.

Mary knows her children very very well; she knows about all their needs, she’s a wonderful Mother.  Mary knew they needed more wine and so naturally she asks of God their Father what is only in their best interest. They were celebrating Holy Matrimony.  Jesus heard her and so obeyed his Mother.

Whenever a child of God is in need, turning to Mary their Mother is always a wonderful choice.

Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night. They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; love for life did not deter them from death. Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in them. But woe to you, earth and sea, for the Devil has come down to you in great fury, for he knows he has but a short time.”
Revelation 12, 7 through 12

I can’t wait. And it is.. it’s already here, alive and well.  BUT the final battle is coming;  and so, as soldiers in Christ, we really need to give it 110% during our “basic training,” here on Earth. Wherever and whenever, we need to continue on with living out the Gospel, because in this way we truly are going after satan and putting a stop to his ways. People who love to fight and argue are happy little fellows just chomping on the bit saying let me at’m, haha.

Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believed.

Romans 3, 21 through 22