It's easy to overlook what's missing.

One amazing aspect of the Bible which almost everyone notices is its blunt honesty about its heroes. Again and again, we see leaders fail in the most embarrassing possible ways. And given the nature of some of the sins, it seems as if the Bible actually goes out of its way to show the faults of its main characters, often revealing events that might easily have simply remained hidden. It’s especially annoying to virtue advocates who want to say the Bible is a set of moral rules since there aren’t any exemplars to emulate. But maybe there’s a purpose.

In stark contrast with this, the disciples lived every moment with Jesus of Nazareth for three and a half years and not a single defect emerged. Although the Pharisees tested Him for a week prior to Passover as the Lamb of God, the inspection of the disciples was far more rigorous. And the verdict is emphatic: this Man alone was without spot or blemish.

Just when I begin to think I’m grasping how the Bible is really all about Jesus, I discover an entirely new and embarrassingly obvious way in which It proclaims His unique Glory.