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“Therefore they [the Jewish leaders] sought again to take Him [Jesus]: but He escaped out of their hands” (John 10:39).
Recently my wife and I have been reading a most interesting account of Sir Winston Churchill’s escape from prison during the Boer War in South Africa (1899). I imagine any of you who have studied history have heard of Churchill. He was Prime Minister of England and a famous leader during WW2. Churchill was in South Africa as a war correspondent in 1899 at the young age of 23 when he was captured and imprisoned in Pretoria. He attempted and succeeded in escaping. Later in his life he said that those weeks in the prison were the worst time of his life!
Our Lord Jesus was often sought by the Jewish leaders who would have liked to have killed Him. In our verse today, it says that He escaped. It was in His power, as God, just to escape when His enemies came to get Him. At times He simply walked through the midst of His enemies, and His divine power prevented them from taking Him. But we know that He always did His Father’s will, and there came a time when He did not escape.
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