Jesus had done the works that pointed to power that could only have been given by God the Father. Jesus has expressed in words that He is the source of eternal life. Jesus pushed aside all religious activity and has claimed to be the exclusive access point for anyone who wants to be accepted by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Tragically, the crowd chooses to label Jesus as someone trying to trick them into believing that He is somehow uniquely connected to the Father and that only through him (not as the chosen people of God, not Moses, not keeping the Sabbath, not diligent study of Scripture); only through Him is there hope of knowing and relating to God. While the refusal of the crowd was passive at this point, within the year the crowd will be screaming out for the murder of Jesus. This is the turning point.
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