Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1964 — Page 8

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The Story Os Easter

Story Os Betrayal And Last Supper

By Louis Cassels United Press International Jesus of Nazareth was one of thousands of Jewish pilgrams who came to the holy city of Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of the Passover in the spring of the year 30 A. D. Five days after he arrived, he was seized and slain. Why? The young teacher’s reputation had reached Jerusalem long before he did. For at least a year, and probably two years, he had been attracting huge crowds in his travels through his home province of Galilee. The religious leaders in the capital had heard that he healed the sick, that he associated freely with publicans and sinners, thaF he broke many of the strict rules they had laid down about such things as fasting and keeping the Sabbath. Most shocking of all, he claimed the power to forgive sins. This, to the guardians of orthodoxy, was a blasphemous usurpation of the authority of God. Soon after he arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus went to the Temple. He found its courtyard filled with the booths of moneychangers, pigeon-m er chants and other concessionaires who were charging fraudulent prices for item* which pilgrims required to make the prescribed sacrifices in the Temple. Seizing a whip of knotted cords, Jesus drove them out and overturned their tables. He' said they were turning his Father’s house into a den of thieves. Powerful members of the religious heirarchy had an interest in the Temple rackets. They were now convinced that this troublemaker had to go. While they were plotting how to seize him without creating an uproar among the general populace, they were approached by one of Jesus* disciples, a man named Judas Iscariot. For reasons that can only be guessed — perhaps because he was disillusioned with Jesus’ refusal to become the political liberator that many devout Jews expected the Messiah to be — Judas offered to betray his master. The chief

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priests sealed the deal with 30 pieces of silver. On Thursday evening, Jesus took his disciples to the upper > room of a Jerusalem home for ‘ what proved to be their last supper together. It waa then 24 hours 1 before the start of the Passover Feast. ’ Mark’s Gospel indicates that Jesus, knowing what lay ahead of him the next day, decided to cele--1 brate the Passover one day in advance. But recent discoveries, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggest another explanation. It was customary in those days for rabbis and their pupils to meet on the eve of a great feast day to share a simple “fellowship meal” of bread and wine. Jesus invested this meal with a special significance for his followers, and its re-enactment later became the central feature of Christian worship. The earlist account of the simple rite which Jesus performed and commended to his disciples is given in the 11th chapter of Paul’s first letter. to the Corinthians: “The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way also the cup, after super, saying ‘this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ ” Jesus remained with his disciples in the upper room for several hours. He repeated many of his teachings, urging them to prove their discipleship by loving one another and by serving others with humility and unselfishness. He told them what was going tq happen to him, and sought to explain why it was necessary. But they could not understand then, so he gave them a simple prescription of faith that has come ringing down the ages: “Let not your hearts be troubled: believe in God; believe also in me.” Late that night, Jesus and the 11 disciples still with him went to an olive grove called the Garden of Gethsemane. Drawing a little apart from the rest, Jesus fell down and prayed in words that bear witness to his own tortured humanity, as well as to the spirit »of perfect obedience which the church has always regarded as one of the hallmarks of his Divinity. •» “Oh my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Never- ’ theless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.” It was there that Judas found him, and betrayed him with a • kiss on the cheek. Armed men seized him and carried him away to be tried. Actually, there were two trials, one during the waning hours of the night before an illegal rurnp session of the Jewish Sanhedrin, and the other early in the morning before the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate. Both were travesties of justice, the first because the jury had reached a verdict before the prisoner was brought in, and the second because the judge reversed his ruling in order to appease a mob. Scholars have made many attempts to apportion the blame for Jesus’ condemnation between the Pharisees and Pilate. To the modern reader, however, the fact that stands out is that Jesus was condemned by the most respectable elements of society — the duly constituted reprsentatives of established religion and of Roman civilization. He was rejected, not by the little people of his own nation, but by the custodians of the status quo who rightly regarded him as one who was “turning the world upside down by his teachings.” (Next: The Crucifixion) Indiana Farmer Is Crushed By Truck SHELBYVILLE. Ind. (UPI) — Gene Hoop, 32, R. R. 1, Boggstown, was injured fatally Wednesday when a dump truck bed slipped and fell on him as he installed a hydraulic jack on it at his farm near here. He was crushed between the bed and frame of the truck.

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