Peter’s question haunts us too. Peter asked, “To whom can we go?” The question came at the end of a long two days. The day before Peter asked his haunting question, a crowd had sought Jesus. Then, after Jesus had taught them, he had miraculously met their physical hunger by feeding this large crowd of five thousand with a boy’s lunch of five loaves and two fish. So impressed was the crowd by Jesus’ meeting their needs that they had wanted to “take him by force to make him king” (John 6:15). To avoid their plan, Jesus had gone away, by himself.
The next day found Jesus and his disciples across the lake, and the crowd came seeking him again. They would not give up. They wanted Jesus!
Or so they thought. After a series of interchanges with Jesus about who he was and what he did, the crowd dwindled. “Many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.” We get the feeling that Jesus’ conversation with the Twelve in this text was to determine the depth of even their own commitment to him.
The crowd and even Jesus’ closest disciples were struggling with what is easily the most important question of anyone’s life—indeed, of all history: Who is Jesus?
Really, who is Jesus? It’s a question that when seriously considered brings about a division in the ranks of every group who asks it. It even brings about a division within our own hearts. Who is Jesus? Read More
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