Wed Apr 5, 2023 – 5:30 am EDTTue Apr 4, 2023 – 11:55 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The chief priests and the ancients of the people are met today in one of the rooms adjoining the temple, for the purpose of deliberating on the best means of putting Jesus to death.
Several plans are discussed. Would it be prudent to lay hands upon Him at this season of the feast of the Pasch, when the city is filled with strangers, who have received a favorable impression of Jesus from the solemn ovation given to Him three days back? Then, too, are there not a great number of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who took part in that triumph, and whose enthusiastic admiration of Jesus might excite them to rise up in His defense?
These considerations persuade them not to have recourse to any violent measure, at least for the present, as a sedition among the people might be the consequence, and its promoters, even were they to escape being ill-treated by the people, would be brought before the tribunal of the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate. They, therefore, come to the resolution of letting the feast pass quietly
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