The officers of the temple went back to the chief priests, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” The officers
answered, “No one ever spoke like this man.” The Pharisees then said, “So you, too, have been led astray! Have any of the
rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? Only these cursed people, who have no knowledge of the Law!”
Yet one of them, Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier, spoke out, “Does our law condemn people without first hearing
them and knowing the facts?” They replied, “Do you, too, come from Galilee? Look it up and see for yourself that no prophet is to
come from Galilee.” And they all went home.
Reflection:
People are divided in their opinion of Jesus. The Pharisees however
are set in their desire to have Jesus eliminated. He is a pain in their neck. The
sooner He is dispatched, the better it would be for their religious group.
However, people saw something in Jesus that not even the hate campaign of
the Pharisees could cover. He seems like a prophet of old. He could even be the
promised Messiah. Some like Nicodemus tries to save Jesus from the wrath
of the Pharisees. But the latter would have none of it. They want Jesus out
of the picture the soonest. They even justified their persecution of Him with
scriptural passage. Once the heart has decided what to do, even scriptures has to
follow it. The word of God is weaponized by an angry heart.
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