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( John 6:44) The Bible describes the extent of Jesus’ truthfulness in these well-known words: “No matter how many the promises of God are, they have become Yes by means of him.” ( 2 Cor. He allowed nothing to sidetrack him from the commission he received from his Father to preach the good news of God’s Kingdom and to make disciples of all whom God drew to Jesus. To what extent did Jesus let his Yes mean Yes?Ĥ Jesus always practiced what he preached by letting his Yes mean Yes. From heaven, Jehovah voiced his complete trust in his Son, though not requiring that Jesus swear to be true to his word.- Luke 3:21, 22.Ĥ. 3:15) No other human has ever volunteered to shoulder such a heavy responsibility. 10:7) With these meaningful words, Jesus presented himself to God to carry out all that was foretold about the promised Seed, including his being ‘bruised in the heel’ by Satan. What did Jesus promise God in prayer, and how did his heavenly Father respond?ģ “Look! I am come. Even so, to emphasize the reliability of his message, he often introduced what he said in this unique way: “Most truly I say to you.” ( John 1:51 13:16, 20, 21, 38) Let us see what else we can learn from the examples of Jesus, Paul, and others whose Yes meant Yes.įrom baptism to death, Jesus proved true to what he promised his Fatherģ. 26:63, 64) Jesus, however, did not need to swear to anyone. In fact, when Jesus himself was put under oath by the high priest, he did not object to it but responded truthfully to the Jewish Sanhedrin. Or, on a rare occasion, a Christian might find it necessary to make a sworn oath to assure others of his intentions or to help settle a matter. 5:21, 22) Thus, it may be necessary for a Christian to swear to tell the truth when testifying in a court of law. ![]() Also, God’s Law required the taking of a sworn oath to settle certain disputes. Explain why it is not always wrong to make sworn oaths.Ģ Do Jesus’ words mean that all making of oaths is bad? How could that be? As we learned in the preceding article, Jehovah God and his righteous servant Abraham made sworn oaths on important occasions. ( John 19:14-16) Jesus was about 30 years old when he began his three-and-a-half-year ministry, so he was born in the early fall of 2 B.C.E.- Luke 3:23.2. We can estimate when Jesus was born by counting backward from his death on Passover, Nisan 14 in the spring of the year 33 C.E. ![]() It then adds: “They passed the winter under cover and from this alone it may be seen that the traditional date for Christmas, in the winter, is unlikely to be right, since the Gospel says that the shepherds were in the fields.” ![]() Shepherds were “living out of doors and keeping watches in the night over their flocks.” ( Luke 2:8) The book Daily Life in the Time of Jesus notes that flocks lived in the open air from “the week before the Passover ” through mid-November. ( Luke 2:1-3) That order-probably made to support taxation and military conscription-would have been unpopular at any time of year, but it is unlikely that Augustus would have provoked his subjects further by forcing many of them to make long trips during the cold winter. Shortly before Jesus was born, Caesar Augustus issued a decree ordering “all the inhabited earth to be registered.” Everyone had to register in “his own city,” which might have required a journey of a week or more. While the Bible does not directly answer the question, ‘When was Jesus born?’ it does describe two events surrounding his birth that lead many to conclude that he was not born on December 25. ![]() “The exact date of Christ’s birth is not known.”- Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. “The true birth date of Christ is unknown.”- New Catholic Encyclopedia. The Bible does not give a specific date for the birth of Jesus Christ, as these reference works show: |
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