“If You are the Christ, tell us.”
But He said to them, “If I tell you, you will by no means believe." Luke 22:67
It is a part of our Lord's trial before the Sanhedrin, but the prosecution has already decided the case and the judgment. Jesus had previously told His disciples to not throw their pearls before any swine, and in this show trial the oinkers are carrying the prosecution. In our verse for today, our Lord is examined before the court, but states that they will by no means believe His answer even if He states it. This is of course not how a trial is supposed to go, as the entire procedure is to find out the truth of the matter. If a person decides the answer before the trial, then there is no hope for finding the truth no matter how many times it is stated. And what is left is a round and round sort of useless discussion that resembles what is going on here in my writing. We would call it a waste of time. And yet, testimony, even in a show trial, is recorded. And if one enters a trial not wanting the truth, but only his or her own way, then that too is recorded for us to read these many years later.
What will be our testimony today? Let us speak of the One who is the Truth!
Bucky
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