Lazarus Fallout(11:45-57)

Lazarus Fallout• The DIVISION of the Crowd– Vs. 45-46

• The DESPERATION of the Council– Vs. 47-48

• The DETERMINATION of Caiaphus– Vs. 49-54

• The DISCUSSION of a New Crowd– Vs. 55-57

How to Justify Murder• Define a Crisis & Assign Blame• Argue that Murder is EXPEDIENT

• Argue that Murder is the LESSER OF 2 EVILS

• Argue that Murder is IN THE PUBLIC’S INTEREST

JOHN 11:45-46

• Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Luke 12:51-53

• Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

Matthew 12:30

• Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters

JOHN 11:47-48

• So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

Leon Morris• Unbelief can mean a complete failure to reckon

with the facts…when people do not want to believe they will always find a way of discounting even the strongest evidence…the reaction of unbelief is always to ignore the power of God, even if it is at work before one’s very eyes

JOHN 11:49-50

• But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all. Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."

JOHN 11:51-52

• He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

JOHN 11:51-52

• He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Isaiah 53:4-5• Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our

sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6• …and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us

all.

Isaiah 53:10• Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he

has put him to grief;…

Piper• CAIAPHUS wanted Jesus dead and out of the

way, so he spoke these words…GOD wanted Jesus dead and risen and reigning forever, so He spoke these words…In the mind of CAIAPHUS, the substitution was this: We kill Jesus so the Romans won’t kill us…In the mind of GOD the substitution was this: I will kill my Son so I don’t have to kill you.

JOHN 11:53• So from that day on they made plans to put him

to death.

Slippery Slope of Anger• Apathy• Irritation• Anger• Hatred• Murder

JOHN 11:54• Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among

the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

JOHN 11:55-57

• Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. They 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 at all?" Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

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Word of God.

INSPIRATIONThe supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit on selected individuals which rendered them

the instruments of God for the infallible communication of his mind and will

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