The Plot to Kill Jesus
Verse by Verse Study of the Gospel of John • Sermon • Submitted
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Previously right here at “The Message” we saw how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and from that event, we learned a couple of things about God’s glory and prayer:
FIRST, I MUST BELIEVE TO SEE THE GLORY OF GOD
I WILL PRAY WITH THANKFULNESS AND CONFIDENCE
Let’s see what happened after that— open your Bible to JOHN 11:45-57, once you get there you know what to do
Today we will finish Chapter 11 of the Gospel of John! Yahoo! We’re halfway to finishing this book!
CHARACTER, COMMAND, PROMISES, CONVICTIONS, EXAMPLES, CHALLENGES AND ENCOURAGEMENT
Read JOHN 11:45-57
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45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 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 signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.” 49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” 51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life. 54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. 55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
WHAT: Plot to Kill Jesus
WHEN: Almost time for the Passover Festival in Jerusalem
WHERE: Village called Ephraim
WHO: Jesus, His Disciples, Crowd when Lazarus was Raised from the Dead, Caiaphas [High Priest}, Pharisees
WHY: Because they are afraid to lose their power over the Jewish people
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IF WE LET HIM GO ON LIKE THIS, EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE IN HIM
They are afraid to lose their power the Jewish people— Jesus was unstoppable!
Hypocrites!— They’d rather stay in power than for people to be saved
IT IS BETTER FOR YOU THAT ONE MAN DIE FOR THE PEOPLE
Caiaphas may have been referring to the prophesy of Isaiah [ISAIAH 53:6, 12]
TO BRING THEM TOGETHER AND MAKE THEM ONE
God was restoring His people— not only their land, but their relationship with Him
Jesus is the facilitator of this work
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THE JEWISH LEADERS ARE AFRAID TO LOSE THEIR POWER
I WILL NOT HUNGER FOR POWER
GOD WAS RESTORING HIS PEOPLE