![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve also learnt about how to respond to His corrections. We have learnt to trust in the Lord with all our heart and honour Him with our best. We have learnt that the word of the Lord is our rule and command. We’ve learnt a lot this week about God’s dealings with us. Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. MacArthur New Testament Commentary, The - John 12-21. What that stand is determines each person's eternal destiny, since "there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Whether loving and serving Him, like Mary and Martha, being indifferent and vacillating toward Him, like the crowd, or hating and opposing Him, like Judas and the chief priests, everyone takes a stand somewhere. No one is neutral regarding Jesus Christ as He Himself warned, "He who is not with Me is against Me and he who does not gather with Me, scatters" (Luke 11:23). Their tangled web of deception was expanding, as Leon Morris notes: "It is interesting to reflect that Caiaphas had said, 'it is expedient for you that one man die for the people' (11:50). Unable to counter the incontrovertible testimony Lazarus provided by being alive, they sought to destroy the evidence by killing him. 22:23), and he was an undeniable refutation of that error. Not only that, a resurrected man was also an embarrassment to the Sadducees in another way: they denied the resurrection of the dead (Matt. He was an undeniable testimony to the Lord's messianic claims. As living proof of Jesus' miraculous power, the resurrected Lazarus presented a great threat to the Sadducees, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus (cf. The ruthless chief priests had already plotted to kill Jesus (11:53) now they expanded the plot and planned to put Lazarus to death also. 10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death ġ1 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.īy no means did the crowds that flocked to Bethany to see Jesus and Lazarus escape the notice of the Jewish authorities. ![]()
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