Section 5
to force the Lord to be their King (6:15). That was a religious concept. The Lord Jesus with drew from them, for He wanted to remain as the small bread good for people's food.
We see another religious concept in chap ter seven. The people at the religious feast were discussing Jesus, but Jesus stood and cried, ask ing them to turn from their dry religion and come to the source of living water.
We see more of religion in chapter eight. The religious scribes and Pharisees tried to trap the Lord by asking Him, in their religious way, how to deal with an adulterous woman. But the Lord answered in the way of life, exposing their folly in holding on to their religion and silencing them with shame.
The opposition of religion to life is strength ened in chapter nine. In chapter five the Lord enlivened an impotent man on the Sabbath. In chapter nine, He gave sight to a blind man. He purposely did this on the Sabbath day. Why did not the Lord Jesus go to the blind man before or after the Sabbath day? He did it purposely to break the dead rituals of dead religion. That stirred religion's opposition against life. The Lord purposely broke the Sabbath regulation before the eyes of the religious Jews. The eyes