Bible Study Seattle

It is amazing to think that after 3.5 amazing years of Jesus’ public ministry:

“the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty” Acts 1:15

120 believers after 3.5 years of raising the dead, stumping the Pharisees, and committing no sin. Earlier on, “… those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.” Matthew 14:21 And, “… they all ate and were satisfied; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.  Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.” Matthew 15:37-38

About 1,650 years before this Moses had this many followers: “These are the people of Israel as numbered by their fathers’ houses; all in the camps who were numbered by their companies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.” Numbers 2:32

Jesus had 120 and Moses had more than 603,550?? Yes. Jesus’ followers were meant to grow over time. 2,000 years after he died his followers number in the billions. Jesus shows how difficult it is to have a large following. Moses’ giant crowd was only possible with immense supernatural help from God. It also shows us how hard it is to have many true friends.