God allows us to bow to him voluntarily rather than automatically. That the Christ came incognito allowed many to simply form an opinion of him.

How different this was than to see and feel terror before a smoking mountain flashing lightning and feeling the ground shaking as God spoke.

But to hear “Thou shalt…” before the smoking mountain is really the same as hearing “Blessed are those…”. The speaker is the same One.

He says the most remarkable things in contrast to his unremarkable appearance. That is the parodox.

No one seems to fear Jesus. Yet, Peter speaks of the great moral difference between them, which compels him to bow.

But there is no bowing among the thousands who eat miraculous bread.

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