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“And every man went unto his own house. Jesus went unto the mount of Olives” (John 7:53; 8:1).
Yesterday we spoke about some cats that were dropped off in our neighborhood, and suddenly they had no home. They could not find their way back to the place where they used to live, and they had to appeal to us to help them.
Have you ever thought of the fact that the Lord Jesus had no home in this world? Sometimes others invited Him to their homes, but in the verses we have for today, it seems that on this occasion everyone went to his own house, leaving the Lord Jesus with nowhere to go for the night. It seems that more than once the Lord Jesus spent the night on the mount of Olives.
Probably those people were not deliberately wanting to be mean; they were just thoughtless, and did not think about where the Lord Jesus would go for the night. Yet the Lord Jesus did not complain, and if you read the next verse in chapter 8, you will find that early in the morning He came again into the temple and began to teach the people. Even if no one showed the Lord Jesus any love, He never stopped showing His love to others.
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