My take this morning is not around a specific verse. But, it is around the conversation Jesus has with Pilate. We have often talked about how Jesus "talks" circles around people. Those who love him and those that hate him. This circumstance is particularly telling of that skill. He is standing in front of the person that will decide if he lives or dies. Pilate has no religious compass, or at least a very different one than the Jews. Pilate is known to be ruthless with the Jews, and killed MANY of them. But, when he is done talking to Jesus, he goes back outside and says he finds no justification for killing him. That is unbelievable to me. Jesus is SO far above and beyond anyone he deals with, its pretty funny. Even the guy who hates all the Jews. The guy who is desperate to keep the Jewish people settled and not in an uproar.....can't find fault with Jesus.
Amazing!
That's a guy I want to follow.
tp
good take, his words come easy.
ReplyDelete5 “Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied.
“I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) 6 When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
I was taken by these verses. How these soldiers who are after Jesus have him on a silver platter and yet they fall backwards to the ground when Jesus says I AM HE. Its a great picture of what Jesus does for us, not just his disciples when he says these words and tells them to let his people go. In one thing I read it said there could be 300-600 soldiers, imagine that picture of them cowering at his words I AM he. There seemed to be an immediate recognition that Jesus was not an ordinary many---they should have stuck to their instincts.
knut