Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional for Today February 20, 2025

TOPIC: THEY BOUND JESUS

TEXT: John 18:12-23(NKJV)

• 18:12. Then the detachment [of troops] and the captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.
• 18:13. And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was high priest that year.
• 18:14. Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
• 18:15. And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so [did] another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
• 18:16. But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought Peter in.
• 18:17. Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You are not also [one] of this Man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”
• 18:18. Now the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.
• 18:19. The high priest then asked Jesus about His disciples and His doctrine.
• 18:20. Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing.
• 18:21. “Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them. Indeed they know what I said.”
• 18:22. And when He had said these things, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, “Do You answer the high priest like that?”
• 18:23. Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?”

STUDY:

Jesus was taken, He was bound, and handcuffed. Tradition says,”They and, having bound his hands behind him, they clapped an iron chain about His neck, and with that dragged Him along” (Gerhard Harm). Five reasons why he was bound were that;

(i) they might torment him, and put him in pain.

(ii)they might disgrace and put him to shame.

(iii) Slaves were bound, so was Christ, though free-born.

(iv) they might prevent his escape.

(v) They bound him as one already condemned, for they were resolved to kill him.

Christ’s being bound is very significant; and a mystery;

(a) Before they bound him, He had bound himself by undertaking to be a Mediator.

(b)We are bound with the cords of our iniquities (Prov.5:22) with the yoke of our transgressions(Lam.1:14). Christ himself, being made sin for us, to free us from those bonds, submitted to be bound for us.

To his bonds we owe our liberty, his confinement was our enlargement; thus the Son makes us free. These enabled Paul and Silas to sing in the stocks, and Ignatius (one of the early Church fathers) to call his bonds for Christ, spiritual pearls.

PRAYER:

Thank you Lord for becoming sin for us that we might be set free. Amen

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