Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” (John 11:47–50, NIV 1984).
My Musings – Had it not been for the death of “that one man,” the “whole [of mankind] would perish in their sins. ” Job asked many years before, “if only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from [us],” (Job 9:33–34, NIV 1984). Nothing short of His death could accomplish this.
My Advice – Still today we fret too much about “both our place and our nation” in the here and now. When what we should really be fretting about is our place in His heavenly Kingdom in the hereafter. “Everyone [should] believe in Him.”
The Brew Is A Musing 