HOLY WEEK! #3

DEPICTION: JEWISH HIGH PRIEST (WWW.INNER.ORG)

I discovered something during my Bible study of the crucifixion. Some Jewish high priests thought Jesus was becoming too powerful. He was getting too many followers.This let to the plot to kill Jesus. 

I think the several incidents were instrumental in causing the high

priests to plot to kill Jesus.

LIFE LESSON:

WHY DID THE HIGH PRIEST DISLIKE JESUS?

DEPICTION: JESUS & LAZARUS IN THE TOMB

1JESUS RAISED LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD

JOHN 12:9-11

9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,

11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

2 JESUS & THE MONEY CHANGERS

 

 

JOHN 2:14-16, 18-20

¹⁴ And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.

¹⁵ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.

¹⁶ And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”

 

¹⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days 

I will raise it up.”

²⁰ Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

3 JESUS HEALED ON THE SABBATH

JOHN 5: 8-10, 16

⁸ Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”

⁹ And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

And that day was the Sabbath.

¹⁰ The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.

¹⁶ For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. 

4 JESUS SAID GOD WAS HIS FATHER

JOHN 5: 17-18

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”
¹⁸ Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.