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NASB | Matthew 14:12 His disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 14:12 And John's disciples came and took away the body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus. |
Bible Question:
My question deals with the nature of the Son of God, when He was manifested upon the earth in Human form. Referring to Matthew 14:12-13 and the KJV says 'his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.****When Jesus heard of it****'. How come Jesus Christ only knew John the Baptist had died when John's disciples told Him, as per the verses 'when Jesus heard of it'. I would appreciate that you only answer if you've been given the spiritual gift of teaching, we are warned to beware of false teachers. |
Bible Answer: Leslie N, "Christ's soul and his human knowledge 471 Apollinarius of Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also assumed a rational, human soul.(Cf. Damasus 1: DS 149) 472 This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, "increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man",(Lk 2:52) and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience.(Cf. Mk 6 38; 8 27; Jn 11:34; etc) This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking "the form of a slave".(Phil 2:7) 473 But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person.(Cf. St. Gregory the Great, "Sicut aqua" ad Eulogium, Epist. Lib. 10, 39 PL 77, 1097A ff.; DS 475.) "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God."(St. Maximus the Confessor, Qu. et dub. 66: PG 90, 840A) Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father.(Cf. Mk 14:36; Mt 11:27; Jn 1:18; 8:55; etc) The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts.(Cf. Mk 2:8; Jn 2 25; 6:61; etc) 474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.(Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; 14:18-20, 26-30) What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.(Cf. Mk 13:32, Acts 1:7)" http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a3p1.htm#III Emmaus |