Section 4
referring to Him as a teacher sent from God. All such concepts are religious.
In chapter four we see that even a poor, mean, immoral, low-class Samaritan woman held a religious concept. At a certain point in her conversation with the Lord she began to speak about the worship of God. Although the religion among the Samaritans was not orthodox, it was a religion.
In chapter five we see religion's opposition to life fully aroused. This was due to the fact that the Lord Jesus enlivened the impotent man on the Sabbath day. To the Jews, it seemed that He broke their regulations about the Sabbath. Con sequently, they began to oppose Him. In fact, they began to be very much against the Lord. By this case we can see how the rules and regu lations of religion are in opposition to the Lord as life to the needy. The Lord who is our life is one thing, but religion with all of its rules and regulations is another. Christ as life and religion with its regulations can never go together.
We also see something of religion in chap ter six. When the people saw that Jesus had fed the multitude with five loaves and two fishes they said, "This is truly the prophet who is to come into the world" (6:14). They were about