The Scriptures Must Be Fulfilled

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The Scriptures Must Be Fulfilled

Date: Jul. 6, 2022

Passage

Mark 14:43-52 (ESV)

43 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.” 45 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him. 46 And they laid hands on him and seized him. 47 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. 48 And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.” 50 And they all left him and fled.

51 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 14:49

Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”

One disciple was not in the garden with the others. This disciple had gone off and betrayed his master. Now that disciple—Judas—appeared with an armed crowd to capture Jesus. Judas sold Jesus for money (11) and betrayed him with a kiss. When those who were with Jesus saw him being arrested, they responded with force. They intended to defend Jesus, and one of them even drew his sword and cut off the ear of the high priest’s servant.

Jesus saw the scene differently. He was not a rebel; he was a Bible teacher. He did not come to fulfill some political ambition, but to fulfill the Scriptures. Jesus saw God fulfilling his redemptive will, as revealed in his word from the beginning. He even testified about God to his captors and his followers when he was being arrested. At this time the disciples fled. They were blinded to the will of God that Jesus spoke of. The young man introduced in verse 51 is thought to be Mark the author. It is his unique and very personal testimony of the gospel work in him.

Prayer: Prayer: Lord, heal my blindness, that I may see as Jesus saw and that the Scriptures may be fulfilled in me.

One Word: One Word: The Scriptures must be fulfilled?

The End of Northern Israel

2 Kings 17:1-23

Key Verse: 17:15

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

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