Scripture Reading: Mark 2:1-12
Christ Jesus seems to have entered Capernaum quietly, to escape notice. Perhaps He was weary after His incessant labors, and desired to have rest. So He came quietly, perhaps by night that His coming might not be known. But it soon became noised about that He was in the house. “He could not be hid” (Mark 7:24). It was impossible for Him to be long anywhere without His presence becoming known. The people were too eager to get to Him with their needs and their sorrows to allow Him to remain quiet even for a little while. They were even rude and unmannerly in their crowding upon Him. But really it never can be kept quiet when Jesus enters any house or any life. There is diffusiveness in Him, like a fragrance, which cannot be constrained.
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