Daily Word - April, 13th 2019

John 11: 45-56

45Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him; 46but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation." 49But one of them, Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all; 50you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish." 51He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, 52and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death. 54Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called E'phraim; and there he stayed with the disciples. 55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

What touched my Soul

“Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.”

This part of today’s gospel touched my soul deeply today as it is so actual.

Not only 2000 years ago we humans keep condemning other humans for what is ment to be a greater good. Does this sound familiar?

In a simplistic view the text above from John’s gospel is a clear example of the fate of the human race.

How many times even today we ‘’condemn” our brothers and sisters to the modern forms of death? Descrimination, exclusion, isolation, poverty? Sometimes, like Caiaphas for the sake of a greater good.

Or we close our eyes to the violence that is going on in countries like Sudan, or Sumalia, or the majority of countries in Africa? The ditatorships in North Korea, South America, Asia?

Let’s beg our Lord Jesus to give us, within our circle of influence, the clarity and strenght to end the ”condemnations” of our brothers and sisters.