Jeremiah
20:10-13 / John 10:31-42
The Jews rebuke Jesus: “You, a man, are
making yourself God.”
One
night the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the baton of Leopold Stokowski, was
performing a Beethoven overture. In
it, a part for a trumpet is played offstage. When the time came for the
offstage trumpet, there was no sound. Stokowski was furious. Again, the time
came for the offstage trumpet. Again,
there was only silence. After the overture ended, Stokowski
stormed off the stage to find the trumpet player. There
he was, his arms pinned to his side by a burly security guard who said, “This
nut was trying to play his horn while your concert was going on out there.”