Gospels (42) - John 11:45-54 & Luke 17:11-37

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
Series: Gospels

Rusty's Notes

John 11
THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS
45 Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.
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46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 So the chief priests (Sadducees – didn’t even believe in resurrection) and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs?
 - This is like the Republicans and Democrats plotting together!
 - They recognized Jesus’ miracles.
 - John 14:10 – Jesus says God did all the miracles.
 - 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works.[1]
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
 - They have fear that they will lose titles, position, income and control.
49 One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50 You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”
  -Bob says, “God likes to scheme the schemer.”
 - Prophecy spoken here and he didn’t even know it.
 - Can you see both sides of that statement?
51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God. 53 So from that day on they plotted to kill him.
 - The stage had been set for the greatest drama in history, during which man would do his worst and God would give His best.[2]
 - The leaders wanted to kill Jesus after the Passover but now it was determined that it was to happen ASAP.
 - It is going to happen at the exact hour that God and Jesus had already determined. RIGHT AT THE PASSOVER SACRIFICE HOUR… on the hour!
54 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly (publicly) among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.[3]
 
Luke 17
TEN MEN HEALED
11 While traveling to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

• Possibly meeting with his disciples for the last time and gathering some to travel with Jesus back to Jerusalem.
• Samaritans were half-breed Jews (with Gentiles) after Northern Kingdom was taken into captivity by the Syrians.

12 As he entered a village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13 and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14 When he saw them, he told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”

• Where were the priests? In Jerusalem
• The scheme was turned on the schemer.

And while they were going, they were cleansed.

• Jesus sent ten cleansed lepers to Jerusalem to remind the Sanhedrin one more time that Jesus was the Messiah.
• Leviticus 13 required that the priest do an 8 day investigation on how this healing occurred, was it complete and then a ceremonial cleansing.
• Caiaphas was the priest in charge.
• The same man who condemned Jesus to death had a big pill to swallow for 8 days!

15 But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God. 16 He fell facedown at his feet, thanking him. And he was a Samaritan.

• The Samaritan’s nine friends were declared clean by the priest, but he was declared saved by the Son of God!
• While it is wonderful to experience the miracle of physical healing, it is even more wonderful to experience the miracle of eternal salvation.[4]

17 Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? 18 Didn’t any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 And he told him, “Get up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.”

• How were these 10 healed?
• It was their faith. They simply believed.
  
  

THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM
20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable; 21 no one will say, ‘See here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

• The mystery form of the kingdom is established now because they have rejected the Messianic Kingdom for now.
• The Messianic Kingdom will be established in the end.

22 Then he told the disciples: “The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won’t see it. 23 They will say to you, ‘See there!’ or ‘See here!’ Don’t follow or run after them. 24 For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in his day.

• The 2nd Coming of Jesus.

25 But first it is necessary that he suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

• The present generation of Jews have rejected the Messiah.
• Verses 26-33 are in reference to the 7-year tribulation before the 2nd Coming of Jesus.

26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man: 27 People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. 29 But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

• 2nd Coming of Jesus
• Revelation 19
• Campaign of Armageddon

31 On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife! 33 Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
 
34 I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”

• Not talking about the rapture but the 2nd coming.
• This is in relation to the final judgment.

37 “Where, Lord?” they asked him.
He said to them, “Where the corpse (body) is, there also the vultures will be gathered.” [5]

• At the end of the Tribulation, the remnant of Jews that remain will be believers (Hosea 5:15; Zechariah 12:10; Romans 11:26-27) and will take refuge from the Antichrist in the city of Petra (Bozrah) located in Edom (Isaiah 34:1-7; 63:1-6), which is modern-day southern Jordan.
• The Antichrist, who will be in pursuit of this remnant, will be destroyed at Christ’s 2nd Coming (2 Thessalonians 2:8-10).

The “corpse/body” is the remnant of Jews that will remain while “the vultures” will be the Antichrist and his armies. [6]

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 14:10). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 338). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 11:1–54). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 245). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 17:11–37). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] The Gospels from a Jewish Perspective (2002). Warren, Bob, Hardin, KY: www.LifeontheHill.org.