Luke 19:41-44
"Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying 'If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you, and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION.' "
"Then He looked at them (to whom He was referring with the parable of the wicked vinedressers) and said, 'What then is this that is written: "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone?" Whoever falls on that stone will be broken (as a wild horse would be), but on whomever it falls, it will ground him to powder (destroyed)." (Luke 20:17,18)
"Then the whole multitude of them (the chief priests, scribes and those willing to follow) arose and led Him to Pilate. And they began to accuse Him, saying, 'We found this fellow perverting the (our) nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King'. Then Pilate asked Him, saying, 'Are You the King of the Jews?' He answered him and said, 'It is as you say.' So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, 'I find no fault in this Man.' " But they were the more fierce......(against Him) (Luke 23:1-5)
When Pilate heard that Jesus' ministry had been in Galilee, under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod. Herod, as Pilate ruled, found no fault in Jesus. Pilate, speaking for both, said, "indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him". "That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other." (Luke 23:12)
The Prince of Peace had ministered to men who ruled over the chief priests and the crowd. Even in their unrighteousness they came to reconciliation and understood the situation accurately. They received understanding in their VISITATION with Jesus and from Him THE THINGS THAT MADE FOR PEACE.
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