The questions in red letters became a curiosity to me because of their depth and scope, but more so, because of who asked them. Albeit some of the questions asked by Jesus Christ were rhetorical, that is, asked for effect, or asked more to provoke thought than to solicit an answer, some questions Christ posed were asked merely because He wanted an answer. For some, it makes them uneasy to think that Jesus did not know the answer in advance. We have been taught that “Jesus knew everything” as if He were some sort of mind reader or telepathic. The Scriptures do not support this idea; it is therefore only conjecture. Poor conjecture, in my opinion. When the Scriptures state, “…Jesus knew their thoughts…” (Luke 6:8 – Matthew 12:25) they simply speak of perception. Jesus was infinitely wise and extraordinarily perceptive and He knew mankind better than they knew themselves. As John states so perfectly, “But Jesus … knew all men… for he knew what was in man.” (John 2:24-25) It is Christ’s keen perception and His unique wisdom that shines from His questions. Sometimes, with His questions, He exposed hypocrites to the world. Once, He asked the sanctimonious Pharisees, “The Baptism of John, was it commissioned from heaven or of men?” knowing they could not answer and remain veiled to the people. Sometimes His questions quietly and discretely exposed the inner thoughts and motives of His own disciples so that their intentions would become apparent to themselves, as when He queried them about their motivation for attending John the Baptist’s meetings in the wilderness, “What went ye out to see?” But, sometimes He asked a question simply because He did not know the answer and wanted one, as when He asked Mary about the burial place of her brother, Lazarus, “Where have ye laid him?” Whatever the reason Jesus asks His questions, in all our conversational encounters with the Savior, it will be His wisdom that beams, His glory that shines, and His Heart of love and compassion that is laid before us. Your answers to His questions will sometimes make you uncomfortable and lay your heart open to Him in return, but to whom, save Christ, could you trust your candid answers and confessions, and before whom could you lay your condition in forthright display in full assurance of acceptance? Who is able to open your life for examination in pure love and unfeigned truth as Jesus can? What a Preacher He was, what a Teacher, and what a Friend we have in Him. As you hear His questions and consider your own answers, you are thrust into His time and He into yours. By quiet contemplation, words on a page become a live conversation. In meditation, ink and paper can become living words in your ears, and it is then that the words of God become The Word of God. It is then that you will experience more than the mere reading of history; you will become part of a verbal exchange, a part of the repartee, banter, and even argument with our Lord Jesus Christ! If you will only answer His questions honestly and with sincerity, you may well peer into depths of your own soul and purpose, heretofore undiscovered and unknown. Ours is a quest to learn of our Messiah and His Father, YHVH. Jesus asked questions of the people in the Bible’s stories to fulfill the will of God, and that was (as it remains with us) to bring the chosen ones closer to His Father. With this devotional, you can experience a daily exchange of thought with the Christ of the Bible, leading you closer to Him, revealing His ways, His thoughts and eventually, if He wills it so, His Father. As He said in Matthew 11:27-28, “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the...

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