The Official's Son
Taken from John for Everyone Part 1
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The Official’s Son
John 4.43-54
Remember the treasure hunt and the clues? (Think back to 2.1–12.) Here is the second clue, the second ‘sign’. But this time there’s something strange about it. There’s a bit of a cloud hanging over the whole story. Something is not quite right, not quite as straightforward as the final scene in Samaria.
It’s almost as though, while we’re running the treasure hunt, we discover that several of the competitors have become more interested in the clues for their own sake than in following them and discovering the treasure. After all, the clues have been written in clever little rhymes; some of the participants seem to be keen on poems, so they are reading them to each other in appreciation, forgetting that the point of them is to lead them towards the actual goal...
Taken from John for Everyone – by Tom Wright