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Today’s passage begins the cruelest moment in history.
Man kills God, who loves them and in whom is life itself.
Yet we kill him.
This moment the innocent and righteous is arrested and will soon be put to death on trumped up charges.
Justice has fled the courts of man and yet in this moment the Justice of God will be satisfied.
It is illegal
This happened at night
Trials were to be done in the daytime in the temple for all to see and witness
This trial occured at night with the only witnesses being the soldiers.
some of them aint paying attention!
Annas -not the current high priest but a had been high priest from 7 AD to 15 AD.
He had great influence and had gotten 5 sons and one son in law declared high priest.
He was the power behind the position.
But he was not in charge of the Sanhedrin that was Caiaphas.
It was Caiaphas that should have been doing the questioning.
Annas questions Jesus
According to Jewish law the accuses could not be asked to incriminate themselves.
No witnesses
I taught in public (in contrast to the privacy of the trial)
Everything I told my disciples I told the public
Ask those who heard me.
Officer strikes Jesus
Jesus has been struck for challenging the legality of this trial
Jesus Guilt predetermined
The high priest the leader of the Sanhedrin had already proclaimed Jesus should die for expediency sake.
The witnesses are more concerned with comfort and private conversations that the preceding.
The illegality of the trial also shows a desire to simply gain a conviction rather than to get justice.
The Defense Rests
Notice that Jesus doesn't speak out in defense
No comments on his righteousness
No defense of his teachings
No proclamations of innocence
Jesus only words are to say in effect this trial is not legitimate either release me or put me before the Sanhedrin and the official trial.
He is in complete obedience to the will of God
He is not seeking to sway their minds but rather to get them to make an official pronouncement that he might be put to death for us.
Do you realize the significance of His silence here.
The only man to ever live a perfect life is here accused of sin and will soon be condemned for blasphemy of speaking or doing evil against God.
Yet he never speaks out of his innocence or condemns them for their blasphemy in not recognizing the presence of God in their midst.
He remains silent.
He has spoken all he will say on the matter already.
They know enough to make their choice and they have rejected him and rejected salvation.
yet in doing so they will send him to the cross that he might be the salvation of the world.
If Jesus had spoken here he could have proven his innocence and gained his own freedom but we would have been condemned to hell for all eternity.
Thus in his love for us he remains silent and humbly allows them to speak falsely against him.
He endures the injustice of the world so that he might be satisfy the Justice of God.
In this one act We see man’s most supreme act of injustice against God that God’s most supreme act of mercy can be shown through God’s justice being poured out on Christ for the sake of man.
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