{"id":3889,"date":"2013-08-19T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","slug":"musing-through-matthew-they-searched-the-scriptures-but-were-none-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-They Searched The Scriptures But Were None The Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 2:4-6 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. We find in our text a political leader\u00a0and the religious leaders <strong><em>searched the Scriptures but were none the better<\/em><\/strong>. Herod makes inquiry about where this King of the Jews was to be born. The religious leaders brought back an answer from\u00a0Micah 5:2, Genesis 49:10, and John 7:42, that Christ would be born in Bethlehem the city of David.\u00a0Oh how many today have searched and they know the Scriptures well yet do not know the author of the Scriptures in an intimate and personal way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 2:4-6 and the theme of Jesus the King. We find in our text a political leader\u00a0and the religious leaders searched the Scriptures but were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}