So today while waiting for my college bible study to start I was reading through my bible plan for the day. The first section that I needed to read was Matthew 14:1-21. I have Matthew dozens of times before and I truly didn't expect to get much out of this time. However, when I began to read I started to realize something, something that I had never seen before. Let me give you a break down of the text before I tell you what hit me. In this text Herod was in charge and he had heard of Jesus and he knew that Jesus's friend John the baptist was in prison. He himself had sent John the Baptist to prison for the sake of of Herodias his brother Phillip's wife. All this is because John had been telling him that you can not have another mans wife. On his birthyday Herodias daughter danced for Heord and her dance was so, let's just appealing to Herod that he promised her everything and anything that she wanted. She wanted john's head on a platters and she wanted to brought to her. He didn't want to do but since he made the promise he kept it and killed him. This news got back to Jesus and he removed himself from the group to pray however, crowds followed him as he fed them and healed thief sickness .
The thing that I wanted to show y'all is that even though Jesus's best friend had been killed for nothing. He still put himself last and put the needs of many before himself, and the question I have for you even if things are going tough times do you still put yourself first or do you put others first
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