Jesus gave the Satanic world trouble. Jesus gave the Jewish leaders trouble. It’s good to be a troublemaker if you give evil doers trouble. Now it seems like Ben needs to be troubled.
He was punished mainly for the temple incident and telling truths and preaching peace leading to a growing resentment for the powers that should not be.
Raising Lazarus from the dead was the icing on the cake, they were worried about losing their power and authority
John 11:43-53
Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him.
But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.
Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.
If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
nor do you consider that it is expedient for [a]us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.
Jesus gave the Satanic world trouble. Jesus gave the Jewish leaders trouble. It’s good to be a troublemaker if you give evil doers trouble. Now it seems like Ben needs to be troubled.
He was punished mainly for the temple incident and telling truths and preaching peace leading to a growing resentment for the powers that should not be.
And I’m not talking about the Romans.
Raising Lazarus from the dead was the icing on the cake, they were worried about losing their power and authority
John 11:43-53
Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him.
But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.
Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.
If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
nor do you consider that it is expedient for [a]us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.
Exactly!