THE PLOT AGAINST JESUS JOHN 11:45-57

Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw what Jesus did and they believed in him. But some of them returned to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.  So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, “What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing! If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our Temple and our nation.”              

One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, “What fools you are! Don’t you realize that it is better for you to let one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?” Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people, and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.

 

From that day on the Jewish authorities made plan to kill Jesus.  So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the desert, to a town named Ephraim, where he stayed with the disciples.

The time for the Passover Festival was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the festival.  They were looking for Jesus, and as they gathered in the Temple, they asked one another, “What do you think?” Surely he will not come to the festival, will he? The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could arrest him.

 Life could be very ironical in the sense that you perform some good deeds in order to promote human dignity, instead of rejoicing and giving glory to God that a creature has been delivered, saved. There are people who are never happy for various reasons. Jealousy, some pure hatred for the person that got saved, others are never happy seeing their fellow creatures happy.  The human heart is indeed incomprehensible. (My heart is sad, my eyes in tears)

 Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of the universe, you could not travel openly, and was compelled to go to Ephraim with your disciples. The people you came to save out of ignorance are fulfilling your mission, and the fulfillment of prophesy that you were going to die for the Jewish people and for humanity (the scattered people of God).  I ponder on this for human it is foolishness, but for God the creator of the universe and humanity it was His divine plan. 

You Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father are one. You obeyed His command. (My reflection: H.G.)  Matt. 26:1-5, Mark 14:1-2, Luke 22:-2


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