Arrested… They arrested Him last night. It was a long night. Drug before every judge in town….all of it really illegal. But He never asked for His rights.
Imagine the trials of Jesus today, in our courts. There would be such an outcry about violated rights. But don’t think our system would have prevented His death.
I wonder what methods would be used today to stop Jesus. Our culture seems to have perfected the political smear tactics. But…that’s not a new thing. They did that. They attacked the circumstances of His birth.
John 8:41, when read with some knowledge about the culture, is an accusation that His mother was pregnant when she married Joseph, not a virgin as was claimed. They suggested that Jesus had more than one ‘father’. Questioning someone’s honesty chips away at the foundation of any relationship. Ask Eve, Satan used that tactic successfully on her in the Garden. He questioned the honesty of God…Eve considered the possibility…and you and I live in the rest of the story.
Perhaps today we would scrutinize His finances, look at His tax returns. They did that too. (Luke 20 and Matthew 17)
Or get a loose woman involved…they did that too. (John 8)
“There is nothing new under the sun..” (Ecc. 1:9) Don’t think we’re any different than the people who drug Jesus from court to court all night and saw to it that He was nailed to a Roman cross. We are not.
But He was different. Hallelujah.... what a Savior.
