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IVP New Testament Commentary Series – The Trials (26:57â27:26)
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ARREST, MARTYRDOM, RESURRECTION (26:1â28:20)
The Trials (26:57â27:26)
The Trials (26:57â27:26)
- Religious Leaders Versus Jesus (26:57-68)
- The High Priest and Council Ignore Judicial Procedure (26:57-61)
- Truth Engenders Opposition (26:62-68)
- Jesus' Opponents Ironically Confirm His Identity (26:68)
- The First Response to Betrayal (26:69-75)
- Even Disciples Must Watch Lest They Fall (26:69-74)
- The Appropriate Response to Failure Is Repentance (26:75)
- The Other Response to Betrayal (27:1-10)
- Consenting to Wrong Judgments, We Participate in Guilt (27:1-2)
- The Hypocrisy of the Chief Priests (27:3-8)
- Scripture Is Fulfilled (27:9-10)
- Politics Versus Justice (27:11-26)
The disciples proved inept, but the opposition was quite competent. After Judas handed Jesus over to the leaders of Jerusalem's aristocracy, they quickly came to their expected conclusion and sent him off to the Roman governor for execution; before evening he was dead. If we did not know the end of the story, would we have had any confidence at this point that God was executing his own purposes? But like the first disciples, we should have: by this point in the Gospel, both they and we have seen who Jesus is. Is any opposition severe enough to make us doubt that in the end God really has everything under control though we do not? The disciples doubted, but they should have known better.
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