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This week's question:

Before Jesus was raised up to the right hand of God, His disciples asked Him, "And so when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, 'Lord, is it at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?'" (Acts 1:6) His disciples were still looking for that earthly kingdom where Israel would be placed as the lead nation with Jesus as King! About eight weeks earlier, Jesus told His followers, "'And I, if I be lifted up from this earth, will draw all men to Myself.' But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. The multitude therefore answered Him, 'We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is the Son of Man?" " But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him."
(John 12:32-34 & 37).

This was spoken the week of His death, after entering Jerusalem on a donkey colt (John 12:14), and many came to believe that He was not the Christ because of these sayings. Much earlier that this Jesus told His followers after miraculously feeding the five thousand, "When therefore the people saw the sign which He had performed, they dais, 'This is of a truth the Prophet who is come into the world.' Jesus perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force, to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone." (John 6:14-15)

As one can see the people have a different perception at this point in His ministry as did they when He taught in the temple in Jerusalem, "But many of the multitude believed in Him; and they were saying, 'When the Christ shall come, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?' (John 7:31) When Jesus was near the pool of Bethesda where an angel stirs up the water and the first one in is healed, a man on a pallet was in his diseased condition for thirty-eight years, "Jesus said to him, 'Arise, take up your pallet and walk.' And immediately the man became well, and took up his pallet and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. Therefore the Jews were saying to him who was cured, 'It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet. But he answered them, 'He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Take up you pallet, and walk.' " (John 5:8-11). The Jewish leaders were not concerned that a man thirty eight years with his affliction now miraculously stood up, but that Jesus healed him on the Sabbath. Therefore breaking it, "For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God." (John 5:18).

That brings us to our question, "Who upset the world'?". There is no doubt that Jesus stirred up the Jewish leaders so that they delivered Him to death by the Romans to the cross (John 18:28-31). Just as Jesus healed the man with an affliction for thirty-eight years, so did Peter and John heal a man who was afflicted from birth for over forty years, a man who was laid at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, who begged for alms to those going into the temple, and as the man was raised up, he went into the temple leaping and praising God which amazed the people who recognized him at what happened to him (Acts 3:1-11 & 4:22). Then the priest, the temple guard and the Sadducees (who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead) came in and arrested them and put them in jail (Acts 4:1-4). But the leaders had their hands full as they even noted, "Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply. But when they had ordered them to go aside out of the council, they began to confer with one another, saying, 'What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But in order that it may not spread any further among the people, let us warn to speak no more in His name.'" (Acts 4:13-17) The apostles stirring answer, "…for we cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard." (Acts 4:20), and again, "…We must obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29)!

So then, for the answer to our question we turn and read, "Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And according to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, 'This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.' And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a great multitude of the God fearing Greeks and a number of leading women. But the Jews, becoming jealous, and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and coming upon the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people. And when they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brethren before the city authorities, shouting, 'These men who have upset the world have come here also; and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus." (Acts 17:1-7).

So there is the answer to our question as it is none other than Paul, along with Silas, and although they could not find them to charge, they took Jason and a few other brethren before the authorities.

May we be as brave as men like Paul and Peter and John who were ready to stand before the courts to proclaim the Lord as the Christ for life eternal!