By bernie2002xp on Skatehive
The gift of counsel or sacred listening is one of the lesser-known gifts in the Bible, and in the New Testament, there are two instances of Jesus resolving problems with this gift. This gift also has a special importance for Bible scholars; this gift is the demonstration that the origin of ethics is God. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke recount that Jesus, after his messianic entry into the city of Jerusalem, was confronted by spies sent by Pharisees. Seeking to deceive Jesus, they mistakenly asked him if it was permissible to pay taxes to Caesar. Jesus escaped the trap through the gift of counsel, as recounted in the synoptic Gospels. Following this teaching, there is a second case of the gift of counsel, which is the case of the adulterous woman, which is only narrated in the Gospel of John. The Gospel of John relates that Jesus was in the temple in Jerusalem, and there the Pharisees and doctors of the law brought a woman to him and said: "Teacher, this woman was caught sleepin