NOTES for Luk 6:12-19
12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. |
13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; |
14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, |
15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, |
16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. |
17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; |
18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. |
19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all. |
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God truly is with us in everything; as a human being He truly experienced everything we can go through, except sin. There are situations in our life when it seems to us that God cannot know this. Fear? But in the garden of Gethsemane Jesus "was horrified and distressed." Sorrow? God wept over Lazarus. The difficulty of choice?
We do not know whether Jesus knew, when choosing the apostles, that one of them would betray Him. Perhaps He did not know who. Because there is choice. We have the same freedom of choice that God has. We may fail to hear Him and fail to obey Him. But we know for certain that God went through the difficulty of choice. We know from this text that before choosing the twelve apostles, Jesus spent the whole night speaking with the Father alone. That means it was not simple for Him to choose. He went through this too. And He showed us an example; He showed us how to choose.
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