Acts 5:34-42 / John 6:1-15
People are always fascinated and attracted by the spectacular and the amazing.
Add something miraculous to the spectacular and amazing and the crowds, hordes of them, will be there.
In the gospel, when the people saw the miraculous sign of the multiplication of the loaves that Jesus had given, they immediately proclaimed Him to be a prophet and wanted to make Him king.
And if Jesus had succumbed to the lure of fame and popularity and adulation, He would have just gone with the flow and gone with the crowd.
But Jesus knew what is from God and what is not. Certainly what the crowds wanted was not from God.
On the other hand, the clergy and the religious should know what is from God and what is not.
But we heard in the 1st reading that the Sanhedrin, the highest religious council in Israel could not see that the apostles could be telling the truth and could be saying something that is from God.
Until Gamaliel made this profound wise statement : If this movement of theirs is of human origin, it will break up of its own accord; but if it does in fact come from God you will not only be unable to destroy them, but you might find yourselves fighting against God.
Yes, time will tell, because truth will prevail and stand the test of time, and we will know what is from God and what is not.
As for us, we must pray that we will always be able to listen to the voice of God and do His will, so that whatever we do will give glory to God and that He will bless us even as we face difficulties.