DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Insecurities of life” – Faith: The chief priests and Pharisees discussed what to do with Jesus; who was proclaiming the Good News of Eternal Salvation; and whose believers were increasing in great numbers. Ponder on, “If we have Jesus as our only security in our life; we will no longer have any fears; as God’s Providence will Protect and Care for us.”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
John 11:46-53
Some of them went to the Pharisees to tell them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting. `Here is this man working all these signs,’ they said, `and what action are we taking? If we let him go on in this way everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and suppress the Holy Place and our nation.’
One of them, Caiaphas, the high priest that year, said, `You do not seem to have grasped the situation at all; you fail to see that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people, rather than that the whole nation should perish.’ He did not speak in his own person, but as high priest of that year he was prophesying that Jesus was to die for the nation – and not for the nation only, but also to gather together into one the scattered children of God. From that day onwards they were determined to kill him.