DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 59

Priestly Plottings

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The Sadducees were now thoroughly alarmed. They did not believe in a resurrection of the dead.

Producing so-called science, they had reasoned that it would be an impossibility for a dead body to be brought to life. But by a few words from Christ their theory had been overthrown. They were shown to be ignorant both of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
Thus far the Sadducees had not encouraged the plan of putting Christ to death. But after the resurrection of Lazarus they decided that only by His death could His fearless denunciations against them be stopped.
The Pharisees believed in the resurrection, and they could not but see that this miracle was an evidence that the Messiah was among them. But they had ever opposed Christ's work. From the first they had hated Him because He had exposed their hypocritical pretensions.
---In declaring that one man should die for the nation, Caiaphas indicated that he had some knowledge of the prophecies, although it was very limited. But John, in his account of this scene, takes up the prophecy, and shows its broad and deep significance. He says, And not for that nation only, but that also He should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. John 11:52. How blindly did the haughty Caiaphas acknowledge the Savior's mission!