When I read John 11, my mind goes to Hebrews, where it talks about WHO our HIGH PRIEST is. I'll share some of those verses from Hebrews here before today's reading in John 11:
Hebrews 2:17 "Therefore, HE had to be made like HIS brethren in all things, so that HE might become a merciful and faithful HIGH PRIEST in things pertaining to GOD, to make propitiation for the sins of the people."
Hebrews 2:17 "Therefore, HE had to be made like HIS brethren in all things, so that HE might become a merciful and faithful HIGH PRIEST in things pertaining to GOD, to make propitiation for the sins of the people."
Hebrews 3:1 "Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider JESUS, THE APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST of our confession..."
Hebrews 4:14-15 "Therefore, since we have a GREAT HIGH PRIEST who has passed through the heavens, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a HIGH PRIEST who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin."
Hebrews 7:26-28 "For it was fitting for us to have such a HIGH PRIEST,
Hebrews 4:14-15 "Therefore, since we have a GREAT HIGH PRIEST who has passed through the heavens, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a HIGH PRIEST who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin."
Hebrews 7:26-28 "For it was fitting for us to have such a HIGH PRIEST,
- HOLY,
- INNOCENT,
- UNDEFILED,
- SEPARATED FROM SINNERS AND EXALTED ABOVE THE HEAVENS;
- who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for HIS own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this HE did once for all when HE offered up HIMSELF. For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a SON, made perfect forever."
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John 11:47-57
47 "Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying,
'What are we doing? For THIS MAN is performing many signs.
48 If we let HIM go on like this, all men will believe in HIM, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.'
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,
'You know nothing at all,
50 nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.'
51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that JESUS was going to die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but in order that HE might also gather together into one the children of GOD who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on they planned together to kill HIM.
54 Therefore JESUS no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there HE stayed with the disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.
56 So they were seeking for JESUS, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple,
'What do you think; that HE will not come to the feast at all?'
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where HE was, he was to report it, so that they might seize HIM.
