Jesus before Herod
After Pilate, the provisions of the heart of Herod to Jesus may seem a priori more favorable to him. The reputation of Jesus no longer to Herod, out of curiosity, thought it would be interesting to know this strange man who caused so much turmoil and controversy among the Jewish people. He therefore welcomed the opportunity he was given a personal encounter with Jesus as an opportunity to judge for himself what might be called today a social phenomenon.
Herod's disappointment was up to his expectations. Like Pilate, he experienced in another domain that embodies Jesus is not within the categories by which men like to classify their peers. Just as Jesus is not a king like other kings of this world, it is not a freak, an animal show, a sort of super magician or miracle worker. The miracles that Jesus did and that was the basis of this that shaped his public notoriety, had not intended to seduce men to win them to Him. They were the Gospels show, the telltale signs of what he was. They were both carrying a message, the event concrete for the truth of what Jesus claimed to be, and how God used to embody the grace and love that He wanted us to share with His Son at the point where our senses can perceive them: 1 John 1.1 - 2 . Herod's desire to see Jesus working a miracle before his eyes can not reach these goals, the potentate will, despite its large, private.
Besides this, the refusal of Jesus to meet the expectations of Herod has lessons for us. While facing Pilate, His trial bothered him, he was quite prolific, Jesus apparently Herod face that seems open and well disposed towards him, the opposite of what is needed. Jesus' attitude seems almost suicidal: firstly, it does nothing to address the charges relative to Pilate that He is the object, on the other hand, he chose deliberately to deceive Herod, who manifested His attitude toward receptive. How we learn here about the freedom of Jesus. This freedom has one source: the total allegiance, unique, exclusive of the Son to the Father, Allegiance, which alone shows Jesus, enables him to remain faithful in this world that embodies the truth without any pressure, even at the sacrifice of our lives, can lead us to compromise. As He has been all his life, Jesus showed, at the most difficult, exemplary in his conduct. Let us know it: the two realities are not one without the other. We can show resistance to seduction under pressure if, in everyday life, without pressure, we choose constant fidelity to the truth of what is in God. ! God in us forge a consistent personality that he seeks to build through multiple tests to which it exposes us!
Maintenance of Jesus with Herod ends so curious. They were enemies, Pilate and Herod became friends. Friendship, it is building on good causes or not, is always made of the same ingredient: the revelation of a similarity of views or a convergence of interests that brings. This sudden approximation of Herod and Pilate, after their personal encounter with Jesus is speaking. It reflects the fact that anything that we have the position regarding Jesus, the confrontation with him inevitably move the lines. Jesus always brings each other: those who choose to be His enemies become friends, those who choose to be His friends are no longer enemies. Blessed be God for the great family of friends of Jesus!
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