“They were looking for a builder to construct the home they thought they wanted, but he was the architect, coming with a new plan that would give them everything they needed, but within quite a new framework. They were looking for a singer to sing the song they had been humming for a long time, but he was the composer, bringing them a new song to which the old songs they knew would form, at best, the background music. He was the king, all right, but he had come to redefine kingship itself around his own work, his own mission, his own fate.”
? N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
Ponder:
Who were/are you looking for, and how has Jesus surprised you?