(Суд Синедриона. «Повинен смерти»)
Nikolai Ge (1892)
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Compare Matthew 26:1-5; Mark 14:1-2; 11:18; Luke 22:1-2; 19:47-48
1.
It’s the raising of Lazarus, in the verses immediate preceding this passage (see here) that seems to solidify the decision of the Jewish leaders to seek Jesus’ life. That miracle was simply too big, too obvious, too attractive, for them to let it pass with response.
2.
On the idea “that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish,” see the brief discussion by John W. Welch and Heidi Harkness Parker here.
Scroll down to the heading “Better That One Man Perish.”
(Incidentally, scrolling through that 1998 issue of Insights was a bit nostalgic for me. That’s the kind of thing that FARMS, later the Maxwell Institute, used to do.)
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