OUR FATHER WHOSE SON WAS THE STONE THE  BUILDERS REJECTED BUT BECAME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE

John chapter 11 verses 9 - 11 captures the extent to which the religious and political establishments were willing to go to stampt out the effect that Jesus was having on the population. 

 9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

Because Lazarus had been raised from the dead, people swarmed to see him because of how astonishing the miracle of his ressurection was. This groundswell of interest in what had happened threatened the fiefdoms that the religious leaders had established for themselves and they targeted Lazarus in their assasination plans so as to erase any evidence that would revive the peopleˋs interest in spiritual matters and point people to Jesus.

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