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Let's pray. We love your word, oh God. It is living and active.

Sharper than a two-edged sword piercing to the division of soul and spirit, bone and marrow, and revealing the secret things of the heart as nothing else can do. So protect me from merely speaking

my words, which would be so fruitless. And grant that I would be so fruitless.

And grant that I would be faithful to draw out of this text

your holy intention.

Just like John drew it out of Caiaphys word,

Caiaphus's word.

Come, Holy Spirit.

Anoint my mouth.

And let there be a converting power and a strengthening power and an edifying power and a reconciling power and

mobilizing confidence-giving power and a peace-giving power and do exceedingly and abundantly beyond all that we could ask or think by your

powerful holy word. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Lassarous has been raised name. Many people have seen it. Some of them believe on Jesus and others run to the Pharisees and tell them what happened.

And then what happens next in this text

shows the fear among the Jewish leaders that finally brought Jesus to execution.

Versus 47 and 48, let's read them again. 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.

Now the council here, as you know, is the Sanhedron. This is the Supreme Court of the Jewish Nation.

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