Sermon Tone Analysis

George Wilson was a career criminal who, in the 1830s, was indicted on six counts of obstructing and robbing the U.S. mail, including threatening a carrier with bodily harm, and violent assault (wounding a carrier).

The violent assault carried a penalty of death.

Rising public petition against the death penalty prompted then president, Andrew Jackson, to issue a pardon for the assault conviction.

Amazingly, Wilson declined the pardon.

“And now, to-wit, this 21 October, 1830, the defendant, George Wilson, being in person before the court, was asked by the court … whether he wished in any manner to avail himself of the pardon referred to, and the said defendant answered in person that … he did not wish in any manner to avail himself, in order to avoid sentence in this particular case, of the pardon referred to.”

The district court was not sure how to handle the complexities of the case, and eventually the matter was referred to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Night Trial with Caiaphas

Jesus arrested

Peter following at distance

Night trail?

gain condemnation

many not invited

Caiaphas vs. Annas

Going Out

Coming In

Caiaphas

Experience

shrewd

cunning

Matthew 26:59–63 (ESV)

Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward.

At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’

” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make?

What is it that these men testify against you?”

But Jesus remained silent...

False accusations

Anything to condemn

Chaos

disagreement

All of this Jesus is....

silent

Few can be silent

in the face of

such calumny.

Isaiah 53:7 (ESV)

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

All seems lost.

Going to fail.

He must condemn

himself.

Jesus could not

remain silent.

Rule of High Priest

cannot tear robe.

condemned to death.

Matthew 26:66–68 (ESV)

What is your judgment?”

They answered, “He deserves death.”

Then they spit in his face and struck him.

And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ!

Who is it that struck you?”

cruel abuses

Isaiah 53:3 (ESV)

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

The could not see

he was God.

They abused Him.

and rejected Him.

The Albigensian Crusade (1209–29) was called by Pope Innocent III against the Cathari, a dualist religious movement in southern France that the Roman Catholic Church had branded heretical.

When the crusaders captured the city of Béziers in the heart of the Cathar territory, they inquired how they should sort out the orthodox Catholics who still lived there from the heretic Cathari.

The reply came in the form of a decree from a papal representative who said, "Kill them all.

God will know his own."

Consequently, tens of thousands of people--men, women and children--were all massacred in the name of religious zealotry.

Peter’s Denial

Read whole quote:

Jesus had predicted

Peter rejected

“all may deny

but not me!”

Luke adds:

Their eyes meet.

In that look

Hurt

Love

Desire of Ages (Chapter 75—Before Annas and the Court of Caiaphas)

Once more he looked at his Master, and saw a sacrilegious hand raised to smite Him in the face.

Unable longer to endure the scene, he rushed, heartbroken, from the hall.

- DA 713

Goes out in darkness...

Second Trail with Jews

Luke 22:66 (ESV)

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes.

And they led him away to their council...

Next morning.

night trial not official.

call all Sanhedrin

we condemned Him

Less experienced Annas

Convince Jesus

to say same thing

he is done.

Luke 22:66–71 (ESV)

… And they said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.”

But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I ask you, you will not answer.

But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?”

And he said to them, “You say that I am.”

Then they said, “What further testimony do we need?

We have heard it ourselves from his own lips.”

He says is God