Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

For pray the word on this Wednesday of Holy Week

we're actually thinking back to one of the Psalms that helps us understand what is happening during Holy Week.

So Psalm chapter 2 verses 1 through 3, why did the nation rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth

set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed,

saying, let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.

So you think about it for a pretty good period of time

Jewish leaders had been plotting and scheming to end Jesus life

their animosity in a sense had been building since the beginning of

Jesus' public ministry.

You think about John 5, for instance, when Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath.

And the Jewish leaders were outraged.

When Jesus proceeded to equate himself with God,

then they became all the more determined to kill him.

So during this holy week the opposition to Jesus was coming to a head.

Wednesday may well have been the day when the Sanhedron, the ruling council of the Jews, met in order to decide what to do with Jesus.

But their opposition to God and His anointed or the Messiah was nothing new.

Like the Psalmist had spoken of the raging of the nations against, was verse to say,

the Lord and against his anointed like centuries before

just as the nations in the Old Testament had set themselves against King David

his royal line the line God had chosen to rule his people.

So now the opposition was reaching its climax in a sense in this hostility toward Jesus, the King from David's line.

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