Mark
14:1-2
Religious
Leaders Plot to Kill
Jesus
14:1
Now the Passover and the Feast of
Unleavened Bread were only two
days away, and the chief priests
and the teachers of the law were
looking for some sly way to
arrest Jesus and kill him.
2
"But not during the Feast," they
said, "or the people may
riot."
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This
is the Word of the Lord ... It
is meant to change the way
that we think, and the way
that we live.
Commentary
by Bob Pardue
Religious
leaders make a decision to kill
Christ
This
passage is fairly simple.
If this
were the subject of a court trial
the Jewish leaders would be
guilty of the pre-meditated
murder of Jesus.
They (the
leaders) wanted Jesus dead; not
because of the will of the people
or that his teachings were
unpopular.
On the
contrary; his teachings were
becoming so well-received that
Jesus became a threat to the
religious leaders
themselves.
The leaders
were so fixed on holding their
power over the people that their
only conclusion was: Kill
Jesus.
We need to
be careful not to let our lust
for power go so far as to hurt an
innocent victim just because he
or she is perceived as a threat
to us.
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Love in
Christ
-
Bob
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