Dear Father, in today’s Gospel reading (John 11:47–54), we encountered the stubbornness and blindness of the scribes. This was alarming and even led to the decision to kill Jesus. They deceived themselves, and thus the truth could no longer find its way into their hearts.
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Day 38: “Conspiracy against Jesus”
Holy Week is just around the corner, and today’s Lenten reading presents us with the Gospel passage in which Jesus’ enemies decide to kill Him (Jn 11:47–54). It reads as follows:
“So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, ‘What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.’” (vv. 47–48).
Here we see the false pretexts they put forward, for Jesus—through His preaching and His works—posed absolutely no threat to the Romans. In reality, it was the religious leaders who felt threatened and feared losing their influence over the people.
The raising of Lazarus, an unmistakable sign of Jesus’ divine authority, proved intolerable to them. Since they had no way to refute Him or accuse Him of any sin—and thus of having transgressed the Law—they simply decided to kill Him.