Mat 26:3-4 | KingComments | STEP | The chief priests and elders of the people gather to the high priest. All of them have the task of connecting, and keeping the people in connection, with God. The high priest is the highest representative of this group with this task. But in the place where the greatest respect for God and the greatest holiness in approach to God on behalf of the people should be, the most evil deliberations that have ever been held take place. They want to get rid of God revealed in goodness! They assume that the Lord would appeal to the people and call upon their support. That is why they don’t want to seize Him at the festival when there are many people in Jerusalem on that occasion. They make their assumption because wicked people cannot think beyond their own wickedness and therefore always count on finding their own evil principles in others. Their devilish deliberations serve only to fulfil the counsel of God. They say: ‘Not during the festival’; God says: ‘During the festival’.

‏ Matthew 26:3-4

Deliberations Against the Lord

The chief priests and elders of the people gather to the high priest. All of them have the task of connecting, and keeping the people in connection, with God. The high priest is the highest representative of this group with this task. But in the place where the greatest respect for God and the greatest holiness in approach to God on behalf of the people should be, the most evil deliberations that have ever been held take place. They want to get rid of God revealed in goodness!

They assume that the Lord would appeal to the people and call upon their support. That is why they don’t want to seize Him at the festival when there are many people in Jerusalem on that occasion. They make their assumption because wicked people cannot think beyond their own wickedness and therefore always count on finding their own evil principles in others. Their devilish deliberations serve only to fulfil the counsel of God. They say: ‘Not during the festival’; God says: ‘During the festival’.