The Betrayal and apprehension of Jesus
Study No 28 - - - Chapter 18
1. Jesus and the disciples cross the brook and enter the Garden of Gethsemane
A. Jesus prays in the garden
B. He is ‘strengthened’ by an angel.
C. Judas approaches with a band of soldiers
D. Jesus’ words are powerful
E. Peter strikes out with a sword
1. Up to now you have not carried weapons … now, get one.
2. “Here are two swords”. “That will suffice”.
3. “Put your sword in its sheath!” “All who ‘take the sword’ will die by the sword”.
4. “If my kingdom were of this world then my servants would fight.”
2. Jesus is taken to the high priest and Jewish council.
A. To Annas
B. To Caiaphas
3. Taken before the gentile authorities
A. Pilate
B. Herod
C. Pilate
What ‘message’ is Jesus communicating to the disciples in point ‘E’ above?
Php 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
This world is not my home; I’m just a-passing through,
My treasures are laid up … somewhere ‘beyond the blue’.
The Angels beacon me from Heaven’s open door,
And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Mt 6:19 ¶ "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 "but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1Pe 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Heb 11: 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
. . . . .
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Study No. 29 Chapter 19 Jesus on Trial
Jesus endured incredible hostility against Himself during this trial. He was treated shamefully. Yet, ‘as a lamb before the shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth’.
Let’s spend a few moments reading a ‘harmonized account’ of His trial.
_________
John presents us with this progression of facts:
18:33 Pilate’s question: Are you a king?
Jesus’ response : Why do you ask, did someone suggest that I am a king?
Pilate’s rebuttal: Do you think I am really interested? I just want to know what you have done to end up here.
Jesus answers Pilate’s question: Am I a king? Not in the normal sense. If I were a king in the normal sense you would see my servants physically fighting to resist arrest. But I am not a king in the normal sense. My kingdom is not from around here.
Pilate: But you are a king, then?
Jesus: Yes. I came to be a king – a champion of truth. Preaching truth is why I came.
Pilate: what is truth?
To the Jews he said; There’s nothing wrong with this guy.
So, in order to get on with this – you have a tradition, you always want me to execute one of your convicts and to release another one. So how about this … Why don’t I just release Jesus as the one who gets set free at your special holiday?
The People: “NO! We would rather have Barabbas released.”
As we noted at the beginning of our notes; Jesus was treated shamefully and endured incredible hostility against Himself during this trial.
Why do we need to know this? What purpose does it serve, really?
The writer of Hebrews asks us to consider this carefully.
Heb 12:3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
Hostility against his person, denying his deity, his sonship,
mocking him as a King,
Criticizing his works of mercy to men and women when done on the Sabbath day;
Maligning his conversations with sinners for the good of their souls, as if he was an encourager of them in sin, and a partner with them;
Slandering his miracles, as if they were done by the help of the devil;
Opposing his entire life, as if it was criminal.
Jesus said, they hated me and they will hate you also.
Considering what Jesus endured, expecting some level of opposition to enter our lives as well helps us to run the race til the finish.
Heb 12:1 ¶ Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares [us], and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (2 ) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Compared to Jesus … what have you … or are you suffering?
Heb 12:4 ¶ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
2Pe 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
1. Jesus and the disciples cross the brook and enter the Garden of Gethsemane
A. Jesus prays in the garden
B. He is ‘strengthened’ by an angel.
C. Judas approaches with a band of soldiers
D. Jesus’ words are powerful
E. Peter strikes out with a sword
1. Up to now you have not carried weapons … now, get one.
2. “Here are two swords”. “That will suffice”.
3. “Put your sword in its sheath!” “All who ‘take the sword’ will die by the sword”.
4. “If my kingdom were of this world then my servants would fight.”
2. Jesus is taken to the high priest and Jewish council.
A. To Annas
B. To Caiaphas
3. Taken before the gentile authorities
A. Pilate
B. Herod
C. Pilate
What ‘message’ is Jesus communicating to the disciples in point ‘E’ above?
Php 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
This world is not my home; I’m just a-passing through,
My treasures are laid up … somewhere ‘beyond the blue’.
The Angels beacon me from Heaven’s open door,
And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Mt 6:19 ¶ "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 "but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1Pe 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Heb 11: 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
. . . . .
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Study No. 29 Chapter 19 Jesus on Trial
Jesus endured incredible hostility against Himself during this trial. He was treated shamefully. Yet, ‘as a lamb before the shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth’.
Let’s spend a few moments reading a ‘harmonized account’ of His trial.
_________
John presents us with this progression of facts:
18:33 Pilate’s question: Are you a king?
Jesus’ response : Why do you ask, did someone suggest that I am a king?
Pilate’s rebuttal: Do you think I am really interested? I just want to know what you have done to end up here.
Jesus answers Pilate’s question: Am I a king? Not in the normal sense. If I were a king in the normal sense you would see my servants physically fighting to resist arrest. But I am not a king in the normal sense. My kingdom is not from around here.
Pilate: But you are a king, then?
Jesus: Yes. I came to be a king – a champion of truth. Preaching truth is why I came.
Pilate: what is truth?
To the Jews he said; There’s nothing wrong with this guy.
So, in order to get on with this – you have a tradition, you always want me to execute one of your convicts and to release another one. So how about this … Why don’t I just release Jesus as the one who gets set free at your special holiday?
The People: “NO! We would rather have Barabbas released.”
As we noted at the beginning of our notes; Jesus was treated shamefully and endured incredible hostility against Himself during this trial.
Why do we need to know this? What purpose does it serve, really?
The writer of Hebrews asks us to consider this carefully.
Heb 12:3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
Hostility against his person, denying his deity, his sonship,
mocking him as a King,
Criticizing his works of mercy to men and women when done on the Sabbath day;
Maligning his conversations with sinners for the good of their souls, as if he was an encourager of them in sin, and a partner with them;
Slandering his miracles, as if they were done by the help of the devil;
Opposing his entire life, as if it was criminal.
Jesus said, they hated me and they will hate you also.
Considering what Jesus endured, expecting some level of opposition to enter our lives as well helps us to run the race til the finish.
Heb 12:1 ¶ Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares [us], and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (2 ) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Compared to Jesus … what have you … or are you suffering?
Heb 12:4 ¶ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
2Pe 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.