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“After two days was the feast of the passover…and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft, and put Him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people” (Mark 14:1-2).
The chief priests, Pharisees, and scribes, who were the leaders among the Jews, had plotted for some time to get rid of the Lord Jesus. Several times they had tried to kill Him, but He had quietly escaped every time, because it was not yet time for Him to die. Now again they took the occasion of the Passover, when many Jews would be in Jerusalem, to try and kill Him. But they agreed that it should not happen on the feast day, in case there was a big riot among the people.
But the Lord Jesus was the true Passover, and He must be crucified on the exact day of the Passover. Whose word would stand—God’s Word, or the decision of the Jewish leaders? Despite the decision of the Jewish leaders, the Lord Jesus was crucified on the day of the Passover, for that is the way God wanted it. “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).
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