Mark 14 vv 43 52
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Mark 14 vv 43 52
- 1. Welcome! JESUS ANSWERED, “THE WORK OF GOD IS THIS: TO BELIEVE IN THE ONE HE HAS SENT.” JOHN 6:29
- 3. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 “Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared. With him was a armed with swords and clubs, sent from the 44 Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The one I is the man; arrest him and lead him away under guard.” 45 Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, “Rabbi!” and 46 The men seized Jesus and arrested him.”
- 4. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 “Then of drew his and struck the cutting off his .”
- 5. John 18:10-11 “Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.) 11 Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
- 6. Luke 22:50-51 “ … one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. 51 But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.
- 7. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 “Am I leading a rebellion,” said Jesus, “that you have come out with to capture me? 49 Every day teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest me. But the
- 8. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 “Then everyone deserted him and fled. “ A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, 52 he fled naked, leaving his garment behind.”
- 9. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 Conclusion
- 10. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 Conclusion betraying Jesus with a kiss Commit to ‘church’ - but not Christ
- 11. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 Conclusion betraying Jesus with a kiss Commit to ‘church’ - but not Christ Commit to Christ – but not fully
- 12. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 Conclusion betraying Jesus with a kiss Commit to ‘church’ - but not Christ Commit to Christ – but not fully Commit to Christ – but not to follow Him “There is a price to pay to be a follower of Jesus. There are some people who want to serve the Lord on their own terms, without committing, and that is not possible. The whole meaning of the cross is dying to self. If we want to follow Him, we need to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him.” - an excerpt from "The Bible in 366 Days For Men
- 13. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 Conclusion betraying Jesus with a kiss Commit to ‘church’ - but not Christ Commit to Christ – but not fully Commit to Christ – but not to follow Him Commit to Christ – but not His people
- 14. Mark 14:43-52 Introduction Betrayal, vv. 43-46 Human response, v. 47 Faithful response, vv. 48-49 Desertion, vv. 50-52 Conclusion betraying Jesus with a kiss Commit to ‘church’ - but not Christ Commit to Christ – but not fully Commit to Christ – but not to follow Him Commit to Christ – but not His people Commit to Christ – but not take Him at His Word
Editor's Notes
- This is the last time in Mark’s Gospel that we see Jesus amongst friends. From now on He will be in the hands of His enemies … so v. 41 ended the last section like this: “Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!” He is now in the hands of those who hate Him, and His ability to soak up both violence and hatred is ASTONISHING.
- Judas appeared Why Judas has had to get out to Gethsemane to be physically present for these guards to arrest Jesus remains to be seen. Jesus was a well known person with a well known face …the chief priests, teachers of the Law and the elders had been the subject of highly memorable encounters with Jesus so they would SURELY have been capable of picking out Jesus for themselves. The crowd This crowd that came to do this to Jesus, though, so clearly didn’t know Him and didn’t recognise Him that they needed Judas to come along and identify the Lord in person to them. Now – there may have been some legal process that was required that we are oblivious to which required Judas as chief witness against Jesus to physically lay hands on Jesus to denounce Him to the authorities. There MAY. But if there were, we are utterly oblivious to it. More than likely these people were only able to do what they did to Jesus simply because they just didn’t know Him, but were acting merely on hearsay. I don’t know how else anyone could possibly have done what they’re about to do for Jesus … coming as a mob armed with instruments of violence to carry off the righteous and the just. Swords and clubs. Chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders. Each sector of the Jewish establishment is identified – each group making up the Jewish ruling council or Sanhedrin – Pharisees, Sadducees the whole kit and caboodle of them. It’s a comprehensive description of the highest authority in Israel. Betrayed with a Kiss Here the Lord is betrayed not with a sword or a club. The Lord is betrayed with a kiss. It wouldn’t be unusual for a disciple to walk up to his rabbi and give the man a kiss. It was an appropriate expression of love for your mentor in faith and in life and it spoke of a right devotion to a Teacher. But in this case it was deceitful and disloyal … v. 44 … a pre-arranged signal, designed in advance, an artifice and a device of foul and self-serving betrayal. The seizure and arrest of the King Here’s the irony. This Gospel began with the proclamation that the Kingdom of God was at hand and that people should repent and believe the Gospel. Now the top religious people of the land had rejected the Gospel and arrested the King, betrayed to them by the disciple group’s treasurer. Things didn’t seem to be going very well. You can understand the very HUMAN response that follows …
- A by-stander went for his sword to swing the balance a bit … The armed force seems to be the Temple Guard and the man who loses his ear is describe not as any old flunky but THE servant of the High Priest … spot the definite article. This isn’t ANY old servant of the High Priest. This individual seems to have been singled out because he was in charge of the arresting detachment drawn out of the high priest’s Temple Guard. In the gesture of cutting off his ear, a gesture of contempt is being made against the person of the High Priest himself. If the High Priest himself had suffered this injury, this disfigurement would have disqualified him from continuing in his office … so it symbolises the de-consecration of Caiaphas as unfit to carry on in his office. Jesus, however, doesn’t allow this offence to persist.
- The onlooker took things into his own hands. Jesus puts them straight back into God’s! He pours scorn on their military expedition … He uses a word for ‘violent insurrectionist’ and says ‘Really, I ask you, am I one of those?’ Now, given that the same word is used of the people crucified later on each side of Him, the choice of word is singularly poignant. They know better. He was in the Temple Courts every day –openly teaching the people in the Temple Courts. But they’ve had to sneak along in the dark, by night, to capture Him. He had sat there teaching the people. They had come with swords and clubs to capture Him. They couldn’t engage His teaching of the Bible, so they were coming along to seize Him with violence. The next bit is absolutely crucial … “But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.” That is the controlling idea in Christ’s mind. His heart, His PASSION is for the fulfilment of God’s holy Word, for the mission it powerfully describes, to save sinners, to redeem the lost, to see the Kingdom of God come amongst the sins of sinful men to bring all things together again under the headship of Christ. ‘The Scriptures must be fulfilled’ is the passion that’s driven Him all along the road from Galilee toJerusalem, through the night in Gethsemane and all the way up to the Cross. Is it ours?
- So they’ve come. They have seized Him. He won’t have resistance. The disciples have no real choice. The guards hadn’t come for them and following along surreptitiously wasn’t going to do any good! Everyone deserted Him and fled. R.T. France: “They ran away because there was nothing else for them to do.” There have been all sorts of suggestions as to the identity of this young man wearing nothing but an outer linen garment who was following Jesus. It’s weird. It’s the first century Palestinian equivalent of ‘going commando’ – trousers but no underwear! It’s startling but it’s probably meant to be. None of the accounts of who it was are convincing because there’s nothing about any of them that makes sense in the context of this passage … we’re just told this as a fact and left there with the idea that people were fleeing Jesus like they were leaving a sinking ship … though we know nothing could be further from the truth.
- So Jesus has been betrayed by an insider, betrayed with a kiss, left in the hands of His enemies (so that Scripture might be fulfilled), left by His closest friends as if they were abandoning some sinking ship. Just in closing let’s think for a moment about what is entailed in betraying the Lord with a kiss. He is FAR more often betrayed with a kiss than He is by the raising of a fist. So that’s literally what happened there and then. But how does this happen today? It happens when the same basic attitudes drive denial and betrayal of Christ. The fruit of this is betraying Jesus with a kiss.
- You see Judas was very committed to the Twelve – the prototype church in his day. A church is a committed group under the leadership of Christ, following Him therefore coming together under His headship and leadership. When the church gathered around Jesus, Judas was there … so committed to the group He was Treasurer! But when a woman did something beautiful FOR JESUS, something that resulted in a high material worth jar of anointing oil getting lavished on Jesus rather than getting sold to put money in the pot ‘for the poor’, and when Jesus stopped the disciples from rebuking her for this, approving of doing beautiful things for Him … At THAT point Judas took severe umbrage and went out to betray Jesus to the leaders of the Jews. Her commitment to Christ Himself rather than to the institutions coffers offended Judas, and Jesus standing up for what she’d done out of pure personal devotion to Jesus NOT THE DEACONS AND THE CHURCH drove Judas finally over the edge. He was committed to ‘church’ not to Christ. The fruit of this is betraying Jesus with a kiss.
- Now of course that is slightly simplistic … Judas had a commitment to the Saviour of sorts … it just wasn’t a thoroughgoing one, and other allegiances took priority in certain sectors of Judas’s life. Where sermons were concerned, where administration and organisation … no doubt Judas was simply ‘full on’ for the cause. But where money was concerned other rules were applied than full on devotion to the Saviour. His avarice led Judas to be dipping into the bag. The fruit of this is betraying Jesus with a kiss.
- Where money and faith and allegiance were concerned, the following Jesus called for as evidence of repentance and faith back in 1:15ff. Wasn’t thoroughly in place in Judas at all. Judas wasn’t going to put down Himself to pick up with Jesus … he wouldn’t follow Jesus where the Word of God led Him, but would lay down all appearance of following Jesus when it didn’t suit him. After the crucifixion and resurrection, Judas wouldn’t be following Jesus into Galilee … because he’d have bailed out long before that became possible. The fruit of this is betraying Jesus with a kiss.
- By the time this came about the lines were very clearly drawn. The camps were pitched and the Jews and the Christians were in opposite ones. Judas had been daily with the Lord, an outwardly credible disciple, but the commitment to God’s people faded and Judas switched sides … Judas wasn’t committed to God’s people. There’s a striking contrast painted in Acts 2 when the Spirit has been given and the believers devoted themselves to the Apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. Fellowship with Christ – when it’s real – breeds commitment also to His people. You can’t commit to Christ without committing to His wayward and sometimes very uncool people. Why? Because the purpose of God through Christ with the Gospel is to unite everything again under the headship of Christ – and He does that by starting with ‘the Church’! The fruit of this is betraying Jesus with a kiss.
- Throughout this account of the passion, Christ is driven by the fulfilment of Scripture and explains this unwelcome stuff’s got to happen so that the Word of God might be fulfilled. Judas doesn’t and won’t accept what the Bible’s saying about Jesus, that He’s the King Who has come in His Kingdom making the woman’s perfume pour the right thing to do. The fruit of this is betraying Jesus with a kiss.