Summary: Jesus gets flak from his brothers for doing things in secret, both at home and traveling to Jerusalem for the Feast of Booths, where Jews live in tents to remember the historical time of living in the desert with Moses. But Jesus cannot help but testify about Himself to the crowd and even to the Jewish guard sent by the religious leaders to arrest Him. Everyone is, as usual, amazed but confused, tripping up on little things.
Response: Jesus testifies to Himself as Other; that is, His origin and His authority don't come from an early spot, but from God Himself.
And yet, this is an amazing power but not necessarily scary like it would be in a movie, right? Like, it's not like they showed Jesus to be an Other because He has a lizard tongue or anything. He's still fully human, but being also fully God, He has this compulsion to do God's will in God's timing, which can look odd from the outside. Lord, help me to trust in Your way and Your timing.
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