Matthew 26:1-16
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If you are familiar with the Gospel of Matthew, You know Jesus has just got through in Matthew 24-25 declaring the end times.
What is going to happen at the end of the ages.
In fact Matt 25 ends with the summary statement that some will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion.”
So its just interesting to me, Jesus speak about the end of the world where he declares Himself to be the king who will judge between the righteous and the wicked.
And then, now he tells them that it is now the time that he will be crucified.
They had to be confused.
But he tells them what is going to happen to Him.
He will be crucified at the Passover Feast.
He does this because he is the Sovereign Lord who orchestrates all events past present and future.
How do we know this?
Look at verse 3-5
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas; and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him. But they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people.”
The chief priest Caiaphas calls the elders and the other priests together.
And they are going to plot to kill Jesus.
So they are plotting but their plan is not to do it secretly. They are going to seize Jesus by stealth and kill.
Bear in mind here the plan is not to crucify Him. That wasn’t their original plan.
They had a completely different plan at a completely different time.
They didn’t want to kill him during the Passover Feast.
After all, Jesus was well known among some, and there would be many Jews in Jerusalem at the Passover.
They don’t want to cause a riot.
I think its interesting here when you compare and contrast what Jesus says will happen and what the people who plan to kill him plan to do.
He says, “In two days, I will be crucified.”
They say, “Lets do it secretly, but lets wait till all the people have gone home from the Passover Feast.”
Lets do this on our time, when it works best for us.
Lets do it after because they were more afraid of the people than of God’s wrath.
But what happens?
Who is right? Caipahas the High Priest or Jesus the Highest Priest?
Whose plan succeeds?
I tell you that to tell you this-and I emphasize that to show you that Jesus has not lost one ounce of His sovereign control before during or after His crucifixion.
This event would occur exactly how it has been planned from before the foundation of the world.
He would be crucified, and it would not happen after the Passover, but right smack dab in the middle of the Passover when the most people would have been present.
“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. “But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
Jesus is God He has proven it many times for these people and some believe and some don’t.
Some worship. Some don’t.
I think we see this in the next portion of the passage.
You have one who worships him, and one who betray him.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table. But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, “Why this waste? “For this perfume might have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to Me. “For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me. “For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. “Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”
She worshipped.
Judas objected. We aren’t told that here but John tells us it was Judas who said it.
Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said, “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”
In doing this, Jesus said she was doing it to prepare him for His burial.
She wanted to prepare him for His burial.
Judas was plotting all along to bury him.
Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him. From then on he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.
I wanted to turn your attention this week to this passage because we do celebrate this time of year as the point and time in which Jesus died was buried and then resurrected.
I believe this passage point out two things.
Jesus was always in control of all things.
He knew it all.
It was predetermined.
There is always those who worship.
There are always those reject and oppose God.
That doesn’t stop the plan of God.