The True Story of Jesus — Page 39
Chapter Seven—Enemies Plan to Kill Jesus 39 Be on your guard against the teachers of the Law, who like to walk about in their long robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplace; who choose the reserved seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts; who take advantage of widows and rob them of their homes, and then make a show of saying long prayers! Their pun- ishment will be all the worse. 1 The Jewish clergy, therefore, turned against Jesus as. They were determined to put an end to his message and bring about his ruin. Jesus as in Jerusalem We now take up the story of the arrest of Jesus as, his subsequent trial and orders of crucifixion by Pontius Pilate, his survival from the cross and meeting his disciples, as mentioned in the Bible. As the Passover festival was drawing near, large numbers of Jews began preparations to visit Jerusalem to commemorate the delivery of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt many hundreds of years earlier. This is an important Jewish festival. The Orthodox Jews abstain from eating leavened bread during the festival. Instead they use unleavened bread usually in the form of matzoth. By eating matzoth they recall the unleavened bread eaten by the Israelites during their flight because they had no time to pre- pare raised bread. During Passover, meals are also prepared and 1. Luke 20:46–47