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Originally Posted by Igzy
You don't think the people asked where the best wine came from? You don't think the people asked where all that food came from? Did the people asked cover it up?
Jesus obviously didn't want sensationalism, but he did want witnesses to his miracles. Otherwise, he wouldn't have called attention to them at all, as he did with John's disciples, and they never would have been recorded in the Bible,
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Please, let me savor this moment. Please tell me that OBW is reading this! You sound like me and my teaching on Jesse's teaching
I am just speaking from my own personal experience. It seems more accurate to look at those cases that happened to me than it is to talk about what people perceived 2,000 years ago. Without any doubt people spread the word that Jesus was a miracle man, He had trouble going into cities, and people heard of His fame. Other than that I have a sense that the turning of water to wine was done discreetly. As for the feeding of thousands, I find those accounts harder to discern. Were the crowds following Jesus because they were fed in the same way that people vote for a politician who promises them jobs? Or were they following Him because they saw the miracle of the feeding and realized He was an Apostle from God? It seems that the Lord's attitude concerning them was that their following him was not a matter of faith but of the flesh.