Did Jesus know everything?
Mar 21
Did Jesus know everything? As I prepare for a sermon I am to preach next Sunday, I read the passage in Mark 11, where Jesus sends his disciples ahead to the next town and instructs them that they will find a donkey there and they are to untie it and bring it to him. If anyone stops them they are to say the Lord needs it. Some people use this verse to say that Jesus stole the donkey, or at least got his disciples to steal it. But we read in Luke 19 that the owner of the donkey did stop and ask the disciples about it and when they told him what Jesus had said, he told them to take it with his blessing. So this was not stealing.
Andrew Wommack reckons this was a word of Knowledge and that Jesus operated in this word as the Son of God. Did Jesus know everything while he was in human form? No, I do not believe so. He has to be told that Lazarus had died, and he wept. There were times when people would come to him and explain how one of their loved ones had died, and he was not aware of it until he was told. I believe that Jesus human form greatly restricted him in terms of the knowledge he had. In fact I believe that Jesus was simpky acting in faith.
Jesus was always reading and studying the Old testament scriptures – we this from when he was a young lad. If he, as God had all knowledge, he would have not needed to read and study. In his Godly existence with the Father and the Holy Spirit before he came to earth, Jesus would have known all things. He would have seen the prophets speaking and he would have know the words in the Old testament because he inspired them all (scripture is given by inspiration of God). So he was not born with that same knowledge – he had to go and learn it like you and me.
So I believe that Jesus knew the time had come for him to enter Jerusalem for the last time at the time of the Passover, and that Zachariah 9:9 had predicted that he would ride in on a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9 (New International Version)
The Coming of Zion’s King
9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!
Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your king [a] comes to you,
righteous and having salvation,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Jesus as a good scholar of the prophets would have known this and he trusted God would provide the beast of burden. I read somewhere that under Jewish law if priest or levite needed a beast of burden which was tied up (not being used) they could commandeer it for their use. I would have to look that up to corroborate it.
But I believe that as Jesus understood the scripture, and that he would need to fulfill it, and he knew that God’s word had to be true, he trusted God the father would provide the donkey, and he did.