Under the cover of Darkness - Matthew 26:57-75

Children are often afraid of the dark.  Shadows play games with the minds of little ones; visions of bogeymen fill their dreams causing them to sleep with a night-light.  The same fear exits in the adult world as well.  There is an electrical storm, the power goes out and we quickly locate the candles or oil lamps and fill the room with light. Darkness is scary; there is too much unknown waiting in the shadows.

So much darkness surrounded the time of Jesus arrest and conviction.

• The mob came in the middle of the night. 
• Jesus was taken to the home of Caiaphas before daybreak
• Twenty-four hours later the religious leaders met at Caiaphas's house at night
• Upstairs in the high priest's palace the priests and council met before dawn.

"Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the elders had assembled." (Matthew 26:57) 


Evil is drawn to the cover of darkness.  "The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death.  But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward..." (Matthew 26:59-60)

Those who told lies about Jesus did it at night. Those who wanted to kill Jesus spoke against him and beat him that night.  Do you think the leaders felt safer speaking lies in the dark when they thought Jesus couldn't see them.  How much of our sinful ways takes place away from the light?

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