We have recently seen the Lord caring for others regardless of the harm it will bring him. We have also seen that we are called upon to watch out for those who are in need, suffering, oppressed. In today's reading we see these two themes come together again, as Jesus himself is essentially oppressed by those who are oppressed. He is harmed by those who rightly should be harmed themselves. He is tried in a foolish and blind way by those who are foolish and blinded due to their reliance on themselves rather than on God.
A question - would we treat Jesus any differently, were he on trial today? Would we give him a fair trial, decide he was indeed the Son of God, and turn him loose, even worship him? Doubtless we would like to say that we would. Yet in reality we cannot expect that we would be any different from those who brought him to trial and death. We ourselves are foolish. We are blinded. We do not know what is good and right. We, in short, are exactly those people for whom the Lord suffered and died, people who are not able to care for ourselves, who need God's protective custody.
Let us thank the Lord that he in fact did come to suffer and die in our place that we may have life.
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