In the quiet hours of the night, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, was arrested by “great crowd with swords and clubs” (Matthew 26:47) and “a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees” (John 8:3). This shows the injustice He faced, in how it was carried out under the cover of darkness. He was brought and charged with crimes He never committed.

In the quiet hours of the night, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, was arrested by “great crowd with swords and clubs” (Matthew 26:47) and “a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees” (John 8:3). This shows the injustice He faced, in how it was carried out under the cover of darkness. He was brought and charged with crimes He never committed.

In the quiet hours of the night, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, was arrested by “great crowd with swords and clubs” (Matthew 26:47) and “a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees” (John 8:3). This shows the injustice He faced, in how it was carried out under the cover of darkness. He was brought and charged with crimes He never committed.

Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9

The city was in a fever pitch. Jesus was coming. The one who had taught such lessons of the coming Kingdom, who had healed the sick, restored the blind, and most recently, brought Lazarus back from the dead.

12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” Matthew 21:12-13

The Monday after Palm Sunday, Jesus cursed a fig tree and cleared the temple. Let’s focus on the verse above, where Jesus cleared the temple. When Jesus entered the temple, he turned over the tables and demanded the merchants to leave because they were selling sacrificial animals for excessively high prices.

“When He finally came to his Senses….” Luke 15: 17

Two sons—which of them was the prodigal—the one who went to the far country, or the one who stayed at home but was dissatisfied as he felt cheated because he remained with the father? We often make the decision to “do our own thing”, taking with us the blessings of our Father, but not being wise in our living.

In the quiet hours of the night, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, was arrested by “great crowd with swords and clubs” (Matthew 26:47) and “a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees” (John 8:3). This shows the injustice He faced, in how it was carried out under the cover of darkness. He was brought and charged with crimes He never committed.

In the quiet hours of the night, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, was arrested by “great crowd with swords and clubs” (Matthew 26:47) and “a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees” (John 8:3). This shows the injustice He faced, in how it was carried out under the cover of darkness. He was brought and charged with crimes He never committed.