Things Jesus Knew

Jesus understands what life is like for us. He doesn’t ask anything of us that he wasn’t willing to do himself, and he promises to be with us in all we have to go through. Some examples:

• Jesus knew temptation: He was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan” (Mark 1:13).

• Jesus knew poverty: Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20).

• Jesus knew frustration: He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables . . . ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!’ ” (John 2:15-16)

• Jesus knew weariness: “Jesus tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well” (John 4:6).

• Jesus knew disappointment: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks . . . but you were not willing.” (Luke 13:34).

• Jesus knew rejection: “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him” (John 6:66).

• Jesus knew sorrow: “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Matthew 26:38).

• Jesus knew ridicule: “Again and again they struck him . . . and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid (mocking) homage to him” (Mark 15:19).

• Jesus knew loneliness: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46).

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15