Jesus Before Pilot - John 18:28-32

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Jesus, you are the essence of purity and love. And this world hates you. And you gave yourself to save the very ones who would kill you. I am in this group. You died for me while I hated you. Thank you for loving your lost sheep in a way that I can never love. But I want more. I want to know you better. I want to feel it the way I should. Please change me. Amen

…like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth. - Psalm 35:16

John speaks of what follows next. Observe the ridiculous conduct of the Jews. They who had seized the innocent and taken up arms do not enter into the hall of judgment “lest they should be polluted.” And tell me, what kind of pollution was it to set foot in a judgment hall where wrongdoers suffer justice? Those who paid tithes of mint and anise did not think they were polluted when bent on killing unjustly, but they thought that they polluted themselves by even treading in a court of justice. – Chrysostom

While the religious leaders were attempting to preserve their purity, they were about to kill the source of holiness. Amazing. This is how we think.