AGAIN they picked up stones to stone Jesus? AGAIN? Y'know, when you start looking at what was happening that year, no wonder the disciples weren't keen on Jesus' going to Jerusalem for Passover.
In September, at the Feast of Booths, somebody got excommunicated from the synagogue for daring to admit that Jesus healed his blindness. At the same festival, the Jews tried to kill Jesus by stoning.
A few months later, they tried to stone Him to death again at Hanukkah.
And then He went and raised Lazarus from the dead, as if they weren't ticked off at Him enough before.
He was really making a habit of going to church for the special, high, holy services of the church-year, and setting Himself up for assassination attempts. And then He went and did it again at Passover. Third time's a charm, they say. And the Jews accomplished their mission. Finally.
But so did the God of Compassion.
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