In this council of the Jews were some influential men who believed on Jesus; but their wishes were overruled by the malignant Pharisees, who hated Jesus because he had exposed their hypocritical pretensions, and had torn aside the cloak of precision and rigorous rites under which their moral deformity was hidden. The pure religion that Jesus taught, and his simple, godly life, condemned their hollow professions of piety. They thirsted for revenge, and nothing short of taking his life would satisfy them. They had tried to provoke him to say or do something that would give them occasion to condemn him, and several times they had attempted to stone him, but he had quietly withdrawn and they had lost sight of him. {2SP 367.3}


Profetiens ånd bind 2 kapitel 31. 367.     Fra side 367 i den engelske udgave.tilbage

Lazarus' opstandelse.

I det råd, som jøderne holdt, var nogle indflydelsesrige mænd, der troede på Jesus; men deres ønske blev overdøvet af de ondskabsfulde farisæer, som hadede Jesus, fordi han havde åbenbaret deres (368) hykleri, spidsfindighed og stive former, der blot tjente til at skjule deres moralske fordærvelse. Den hellige religion, som Jesus lærte, og hans ligefremme guddommelige liv fordømte deres tomme bekendelse. De tørstede efter hævn, og intet andet kunne tilfredsstille dem end Jesu død. De havde forsøgt at opirre ham til at sige eller gøre noget, som kunne give dem anledning til at fordømme ham, og de havde flere gange forsøgt at stene ham. Men han havde rolig undveget dem, og de havde tabt ham af syne.

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