“YOU WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN”
“But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man
sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One
and coming on the clouds of heaven”
(Matthew 26:64, NIV).
IN THE GOSPEL of Matthew we find the following statement: «Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death* (Matthew 26:59). This group, also known as the Sanhedrin, was «the most important legislative body in Jewish Palestine; it was the supreme court of justice, the grand jury for important cases. The Sanhedrin had authority over all the Jews, and its decisions were binding; they were to be carried out mandatorily. Its members, distinguished and powerful men, had to be pure-blooded Jews and their jobs were permanent.
According to Josephus, the Sanhedrin had seventy members and was presided by the high priest, with whom they reached seventy-one. The Romans limited its power and forbade it from executing death sentences without due imperial approval. This was the group Jesus faced during the fast moments of His life. There were the most powerful and influential people in the nation, all conspiring against the Lord, full of bravery, sitting in their seats to condemn the Son of God. And it was before the Sanhedrin that Jesus pronounced these words: “But I say to all of you:
From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Matthew 26:64, NIV). On that day, the picture will be radically different, because “the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!’ ” (Revelation ó:15, 16, NIV).
The oppressor will end up being oppressed. Those who were brave to crucify Christ and mock Him will run aimlessly, terrified. Wickedness is nothing less than the living incarnation of cowardice. True bravery is found in accepting Jesus, not in condemning Him. Those of us who are brave to accept Him today will be the brave ones standing on the day when He fulfills the promise He made before the whole Sanhedrin.
» Anthony J. Saldarini, “Sanhedrin» ed. David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), e. 975.
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Taken from: Devotional Readings for Adults 2023
“I AM WITH YOU”
From: J. VLADIMIR POLANCO
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Avineyda Hernandez