capture of Jesus
Gospel John 18: 1-11 Jesus went with his disciples over the brook Kidron. There was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples. Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus and his disciples often met there. Judas, having received a band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Jesus, knowing all that had come upon him, came forward and said to them: ŤKogo looking for? T answered him with Nazaretuť ŤJezusa. Jesus said to them: «I jestemť. Also, Judas, who betrayed him, stood between them. When he said to them: «I jestemť, drew back and fell to the ground. Again he asked them ŤKogo looking for? T They said the Nazaretuť ŤJezusa. Jesus replied: ŤPowiedziałem you that I am. So if you looking for me, let these go! T was done to fulfill the word which he spoke: tDo lost none of those dałeśť Mi. Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. A servant's name was Malchus. Jesus said to Peter, ŤSchowaj sword. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me? T
Meditation
He came up to kiss Jesus. Judas led the enemies of Jesus. Be the first one goes to the Master. Became the head of the enemy, is an intimate token of friendship - a kiss. Deceit and hypocrisy of Judas, it puts him at the head of the enemy. Hard question of Jesus, Judas was a turning point. Rejected Jesus in your heart, but remained with him physically. Everything he did as the other students: the teacher walked, but everything he did with a double heart. Judas becomes a man. Judas comes slowly. Betrayal is the last station a long road.
why Judas was not courage to ask for forgiveness? When you reject Jesus, closed in on itself. Years led a double play - she's demoralized and led him to the role of traitor. The long resistance to Jesus, making a treacherous heart. Takes a small man. The game corrupts man. Corrupts the human heart is a double morality. Habituated to evil. Sin does not demoralize a man who confess and acknowledge a man in your life. Demoralizes the human sin that becomes a law. As long as I am ashamed of your sin, I am not corrupt.
Jesus voluntarily appear in the hands of the executioners. He reigns over the situation. Voluntarily appear in the hands of the enemy. "I lay down my life." The apostles slept with sadness, because they were not prepared for this event. Guided by the principle: "An eye for an eye." Jesus, while introducing a new rule - takes evil upon himself. Stopping evil in itself, would be interrupted to break the chain of human wickedness. The essence of harm are: passing of his sin, to share her sin, weakness, inclination, passion.
deprived of the presence of Jesus, his friends and released by the hostile cruelty to each set crowd. It is also a turning point in the life of students. This does not mean that he no longer believe in him. They believe in him, but their faith is limited. He now came to an end, but they choose a different path. That left him does not mean that I do not love him. Still very much love him, but I also love something else - even more because they love their own security. That it is now seriously threatened and changes the direction of the road, after which they go. Either consciously circumscribed border in devotion to Jesus, somehow inevitably leads to betrayal.
Prayer
I feel sorry for you, Lord, but I also feel sorry for Judas. Do not deserved it, so to you treated. Moves me what you said to the disciple, "Friend." He sold you and you show him respect. Is such an attitude is possible for a man? It is essential to your operation. What we're small. Everything depends on you. So some people say that if we believe we are great. What does it mean to be a big or small. What is really good for me about a man, his loyalty to another. Judas was not loyal to You. He watched her walk with you, listen and ... nothing he could not, did not help. Why? Sure, and it does not know. Property that he liked the money and stealing from the purse is not any answer. Why he liked money and not being honest? Who, or what has shaped it so? People are not nasty because they have such a plan! Blind alley. Many respond, but for every answer there is more my question. Did I not put too many questions, Lord?
Judas closed in on itself. How many people I meet so responsive. Whether they are also doomed to race? Is it that man closes in on itself is at fault, or punishment for mistakes their parents, the environment, in which he lived? You can not always justify the fact that the man had a difficult childhood, but most people get no help from the past to live in the present. What will happen to them, Jesus? I feel anxious when I hear the easy answer. Are the trite, obvious slogans that do not explain anything.
It saddens me so much force that would have been sleeping with his disciples in the Garden of Olives. This life is very tiring, when everything seems to be be one big mystery. I ask you God, for clarity of response gives me a sense of security. The truth puts my life is a real support. You are true, which I do not see, you're true, I hear reading the Bible, you are true, which I believe. Students in the Garden of Olives is also loving his security followed him, and you left. They loved you, but at the same time afraid. Fear prevailed. Were they to you if they knew answers to questions that I put? When a man feels the threat is able to change the direction of the path, which follows. They who are dear to me, these students are fleeing in panic when you have been captured.
Yes I love you to stop being afraid for their lives. Do not let me zakreślał any boundaries in their dedication to you. I do not want to betray you, Jesus, you know. Do not count on its own strength, they are hopeless. Help me to be faithful regardless of the consequences that arise from the fidelity you can.
why Judas was not courage to ask for forgiveness? When you reject Jesus, closed in on itself. Years led a double play - she's demoralized and led him to the role of traitor. The long resistance to Jesus, making a treacherous heart. Takes a small man. The game corrupts man. Corrupts the human heart is a double morality. Habituated to evil. Sin does not demoralize a man who confess and acknowledge a man in your life. Demoralizes the human sin that becomes a law. As long as I am ashamed of your sin, I am not corrupt.
Jesus voluntarily appear in the hands of the executioners. He reigns over the situation. Voluntarily appear in the hands of the enemy. "I lay down my life." The apostles slept with sadness, because they were not prepared for this event. Guided by the principle: "An eye for an eye." Jesus, while introducing a new rule - takes evil upon himself. Stopping evil in itself, would be interrupted to break the chain of human wickedness. The essence of harm are: passing of his sin, to share her sin, weakness, inclination, passion.
deprived of the presence of Jesus, his friends and released by the hostile cruelty to each set crowd. It is also a turning point in the life of students. This does not mean that he no longer believe in him. They believe in him, but their faith is limited. He now came to an end, but they choose a different path. That left him does not mean that I do not love him. Still very much love him, but I also love something else - even more because they love their own security. That it is now seriously threatened and changes the direction of the road, after which they go. Either consciously circumscribed border in devotion to Jesus, somehow inevitably leads to betrayal.
Judas closed in on itself. How many people I meet so responsive. Whether they are also doomed to race? Is it that man closes in on itself is at fault, or punishment for mistakes their parents, the environment, in which he lived? You can not always justify the fact that the man had a difficult childhood, but most people get no help from the past to live in the present. What will happen to them, Jesus? I feel anxious when I hear the easy answer. Are the trite, obvious slogans that do not explain anything.
It saddens me so much force that would have been sleeping with his disciples in the Garden of Olives. This life is very tiring, when everything seems to be be one big mystery. I ask you God, for clarity of response gives me a sense of security. The truth puts my life is a real support. You are true, which I do not see, you're true, I hear reading the Bible, you are true, which I believe. Students in the Garden of Olives is also loving his security followed him, and you left. They loved you, but at the same time afraid. Fear prevailed. Were they to you if they knew answers to questions that I put? When a man feels the threat is able to change the direction of the path, which follows. They who are dear to me, these students are fleeing in panic when you have been captured.
Yes I love you to stop being afraid for their lives. Do not let me zakreślał any boundaries in their dedication to you. I do not want to betray you, Jesus, you know. Do not count on its own strength, they are hopeless. Help me to be faithful regardless of the consequences that arise from the fidelity you can.
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