Daily Lesson for June 22, 2021

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapters 21 verses 37 and 38; and chapter 22 verses 1 through 6:

Every day he was teaching in the temple, and at night he would go out and spend the night on the Mount of Olives, as it was called. 38And all the people would get up early in the morning to listen to him in the temple.

22Now the festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was near. 2The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus* to death, for they were afraid of the people.

3 Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve; 4he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them. 5They were greatly pleased and agreed to give him money. 6So he consented and began to look for an opportunity to betray him to them when no crowd was present.

Some Bible study:

When Jesus was killed, he was arrested, tried at midnight, and sentenced to death by 9am.

What was done to him had be done when there was nobody awake to stop it. It had to be done under the cloak of darkness. For as Jesus said, "And they loved the darkness, because their deeds are evil."

Crowds upon crowds gathered around Jesus in the day. He amassed probably thousands right in the courtyard square. The Sanhedrine and the Romans didn't dare touch him during the day, because he was a man of the people.

A handful of powerful Jewish leaders conspired with the Roman authorities to kill Jesus. But it had to all be done in the dark and not in the day, due to the crowds. The crowds were for Jesus.

I think we should remember that the next time we hear somebody say the Jews killed Jesus.

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.