I don't
know about you, but there are times when the Word of God fills me with such
awe, that I can't find a way to fully express what it stirs up inside of me…
But that doesn't stop me from trying.
So I
really love the places where the Bible records the words of the people in
reaction to something profound that Christ has spoken. This is what we see here
in Marco, Mark 11:18.
The English Bible uses the word astonished,
saying the people were astonished at His teaching. Other ways of saying this
would be amazed, enthusiastic, in admiration, or
even spellbound. (I really like that last one.)
But after I read this in Italian, it brought me a step closer to being able to express what I often feel in response to God's Word.
In Italian, it says that the people, or the crowd, was rapita in ammirazione.
Rapita, can be translated here as captivated. It literally means kidnapped or taken captive. The words that Christ spoke were so profound that the people were taken captive by it.
But that's not all!
