Section 3
of chapter ten, He was forced to desert religion. He forsook the temple, the holy city, and all the good things of the Jewish religion and came to a new standing.
In every chapter from chapter one through chapter ten we can see one point concerning re ligion versus Christ. In chapter one we see that religion was expecting a great leader to come. Religion looked for the so-called Messiah, Elijah, or the promised prophet. However, Christ did not come as a great leader, but as the little Lamb of God to accomplish redemption and with a little dove to produce the transformed stones for God's building. Thus, even in the first chap ter of this Gospel we find an indication that religion takes the wrong way, a way other than the way of life. There is a great discrepancy be tween religion and life.
In chapter two we see that religion will try to destroy life, for religion will try to destroy Jesus. But Jesus as the divine life will raise Him self out of that destruction. Life not only can withstand destruction, but can raise Himself up out of the destruction of death.
In chapter three we see that Nicodemus, a high-class man, held a religious concept of the Lord Jesus, addressing Him as rabbi and