Saturday, July 9, 2022

Precious Blood of Jesus, Day 8






“The Blood of Christ is His sacrifice applied to us, it enters the souls of the redeemed, it is the inexhaustible source of all heroism.” St. John the Pope XXIII.  

Matthew 23:35 (NJB): and so you will draw down on yourselves the blood of every upright person that has been shed on earth, from the blood of Abel the holy to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Here, Jesus was telling Pharisees and Scribes about their behavior and attitudes towards the Prophets, as they got killed many of them in the last centuries before Christ. He is foreseeing his own condemnation which will lead him to death. He is referring to Abel and how he got killed by his own brother. He is saying it has happened from the beginning of the world and he end with how Zachariah son of Barachiah was dead. There was nothing left to say about the works of Jews especially the Scribes and Pharisees done against plan of God. They disobeyed the Words of God and they condemned His prophets and holy men. Same way they Condemned Jesus Christ and done the condemnation of blaspheming God! So Jews made Jesus crucified. But his crucifixion brought us salvation. 

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