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

Or pray the word on this Wednesday of Holy Week,

or 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 do the nations rage and the people's 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. 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, it was verse 2 say, the Lord and against

his anointed, like centuries before.

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

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