Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”Ī. For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.” But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. (6-13) A woman anoints Jesus before His death.Īnd when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. Jerusalem’s population swelled perhaps fivefold during the feast and with religious fervor and national messianism at a high pitch, a spark might set off an explosion.” (Carson) 3. “The leaders were right in fearing the people. This is another subtle indication that Jesus was in control of events, as they in fact killed Him on the very day that they didn’t want to. Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar: They didn’t want to put Jesus to death during Passover, but that is exactly how it happened. Caiaphas, unable to bear this disgrace, and the stings of his conscience for the murder of Christ, killed himself about A.D. “About two years after our Lord’s crucifixion, Caiaphas and Pilate were both deposed by Vitellius, then governor of Syria, and afterwards emperor. This was an extraordinarily long time for a High Priest to last, and Caiaphas must have brought the technique of co-operating with the Romans to a fine art.” (Barclay) The suggestive thing is that Caiaphas was High Priest from A.D. 67… there were no fewer than twenty-eight High Priests. Doubtless some continued to call either man ‘high priest.’” (Carson) But since according to the Old Testament the high priest was not to be replaced till after his death, the transfer of power was illegal. 15 and replaced by Caiaphas, who lived and ruled till his death in A.D. The high priest, who was called Caiaphas: “Annas was deposed by the secular authorities in A.D. According to Carson, the use of both assembled and plotted is deliberately suggestive of Psalm 31:13: For I am the slander of many fear is on every side while they take counsel together against me, they scheme to take away my life. Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders… plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him: The long controversy between Jesus and the religious leaders had finally come to this. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”Ī. Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him. Jesus reminded them that this was not the case. You know that after two days…the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified: Perhaps after the triumphal descriptions of the coming kingdom, the disciples were strengthened in their idea that it was impossible that the Messiah should suffer. “Having instructed his disciples and the Jews by his discourses, edified them by his example, convinced them by his miracles, he now prepares to redeem them by his blood!” (Clarke)ī. Now, it was time for Jesus to fulfill His work on the cross. In these last days leading up to His betrayal and crucifixion, He warned the multitudes about the corrupt religious leadership and He spoke to His disciples about things to come. When Jesus had finished all these sayings: In Matthew’s Gospel, the teaching of Jesus is finished here. Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples, “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”Ī. (1-2) Jesus reminds His disciples of His coming suffering and crucifixion. The stage is set for the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus.
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