"Fulfilled -Who Do You Think You Are? Matthew 21: 23-46" June 16, 2019

The Jewish leaders come to Jesus and basically ask Him, “Who do you think you are and what gives you the right to come in here and try to change everything?”  The response of Jesus does more than just silence His opponents.  Jesus had already revealed to His disciples who John the Baptist was (Matthew 17:11-13).  John was the one who fulfilled the prophecies of Malachi.  He was the forerunner of the Messiah.  Anyone who knew who John was would recognize who Jesus was.  This is why the Jewish leaders were unable to correctly answer the question that Jesus asked.  They were proving their own unwillingness to believe Jesus was in fact the Christ.  Jesus will hammer down on this stubbornness in the following three parables.