Disciples Tour in Galilee

38. Disciples Tour in Galilee

This is the first – and last! – time that Jesus sends his followers out on their own. Why did he never send them out again? Look at the last line: “And they went out, and preached that men should repent.” Repentance was John’s message, not Jesus’! The disciples were preaching that people should repent and get ready for the apocalypse, where the righteous will be rewarded with everlasting life, and the wicked burned in unquenchable fire. As we have seen, Jesus preached a very different message.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that these disciples were not the sharpest tools in the shed. Despite all of Jesus’ teachings, they could never shake the belief that he was the messiah foretold in Jewish prophesy, there to vanquish the Roman enemy.