The high priest rose and addressed him, “Have you no answer? What are these men testifying against you?” But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I order you to tell us under oath before the living God whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” Jesus said in reply, “You have said so. But I tell you: From now on you will see ‘the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power’ and ‘coming on the clouds of heaven.’”(Mt. 26:62:64)
One time Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter stepped forward and said, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Now, ten chapters later, the high priest puts Jesus under oath and asks if he is “the Messiah, the Son of God.”
Jesus who stand bound and powerless before the highest authority of his people, knows that the cross is the path to fulfillment ("seated at the right hand of God”,) and that though now under judgment, he will come back as judge of all (“on the clouds of heaven.”)
This may well be the moment when Jesus, as a human being, fully realized that death was hours away. He didn’t blink. He trusted that God would bring life out of death.
If I just found out that tomorrow I would die, what would my thoughts be? My feelings? What would I say right now to the Lord?
Spend some quiet time with the Lord.
