November 26, Reading 3 – John 18:28-19:16

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SAA Notes

John bypasses the trial before Caiaphas and concentrates on the trial before Pilate. It is good to read this passage on the passion out aloud.

SJA Notes

* Mighty God, we read Your word of Jesus and the road to Calvary – Thank You for saving us, despite our enmity with You.

“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above.”

Well does the beloved author C.S. Lewis describe the slaying Aslan by the mean and nasty creatures, cackling and laughing as they tormented the King.

Look here in this passage. See the Jews who took Jesus to Pilate. See what they were about.

They would not be denied, regardless of truth or law – This threat to their power had to go!

Time and again Pilate seeks to free Jesus, knowing that this was no ordinary situation, no ordinary man.

Jesus speaks the truth to Pilate.

“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above.”

It was God’s will to slay the Son, the Christ.

Jesus, the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world, went obediently and meekly to the cross. He submitted under the will of His Father.

We will be put into very unjust situations. Times when it all feels so very unfair.

It is good to remember how Jesus was treated, and how He dealt with the most outrageously unfair situation in all of history.

He submitted under the will of the Father.

* Father God,

We pray that Your will would be done here on earth, as it is in heaven.

Mark us as a faithful people who humbly submit under and go about Your will for us.

Amen.

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