By a turn of events that the religious leaders who crucified Jesus had not counted upon, His grave was not assigned with wicked men as they had planned but with a rich man of their own number (Isa 53:9). In this way the stigma as an evildoer with which they had hoped to seal His…
All of the religion of the religious leaders who put Jesus to death was of the flesh and political, and not real and of the heart. They had imagined that they would be able to deal with any repercussions politically as they had always done before. For just an instant though, they realized that all the rest of their religion to which they had only given lip-service was really true and had now come upon them. It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Heb 10:31).