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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Sunday, October 6, 2024
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Jesus is Arrested; Peter Denies Him Bible Verse:John 18:12-18 (ESV) "So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him. First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people. Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest, but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in. The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.” Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself. " Message:
Caiaphas was the high priest of the Hebrews at the time of Christ’s passion; he was the longest-reigning high priest of the era. Annas, whom Caiaphas had supplanted, was his father-in-law and was (unlike Caiaphas) associated with the Sadducees. There is no modern counterpart for these high priests in Western government; although they were a religious organization for mainstream Judaism, there was a secular head of government, but they still wielded a lot of political power. One might compare them to the Pope in medieval Europe.
Whatever the political struggles for supremacy there might have been between Annas and Caiaphas, or between the Sadducees (the older, more ceremonially-oriented faction) and the Pharisees (who were more theologically and legally oriented), they closed ranks when it came to a heretical movement like the Christ sect.
The Scripture today is interesting primarily in the detail it provides about the passion of Christ. There is almost no history of Christ outside the Bible; scholars have found only the briefest mention of him in Roman documents. He was considered barely a passing footnote to them, at the time. But the detail recorded by this account of Christ's arrest gives us some confidence in the accuracy of the records in the Bible.
The mysterious “other disciple” in John’s account is almost universally thought to be John himself.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, in utter humility I thank you and glorify you, that you might hear the prayer of one so small as myself, amidst the billions of souls among billions of stars in one of billions of galaxies in your universe. Let me go forth in your peace, keeping your Spirit always in my mind; and bless me, I pray, that I might always follow your will and live in the radiance of your blessing.............Amen |
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