Mark 12 - The Passover

 

Mark 12 – The Passover

 

Each family chose its Passover lamb on the tenth day of the month and carefully examined it until the fourteenth day to be sure it had no defects (Exod. 12:1-6). During His last week of public ministry, God’s Lamb (John 1:29) was examined in various ways, and He passed every test. No guile was found in His mouth. (Isa. 53:9).

 

In His replies, Jesus revealed to them who He was; yet they would not accept the truth. He is the Son sent by the father and the Stone rejected by the builders (Psa. 118:22-23). His enemies were so intent on destroying only themselves. The religious leaders immediately grasped that Jesus had spoken the parable against them. Ordinarily the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians were antagonistic against each other, here they start working together against their common enemy, Jesus.

 

All political questions and hypothetical doctrinal questions are chaff compared to the most important question of all: Is Jesus Christ your Lord and do you love Him?

Man bears God’s image, therefor the believer’s life belongs to God.

 

Love for God should naturally issue in love for other human beings, who are made in His image (Rom. 13:9).

 

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