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Day of Conspiracy Pascha Wednesday

Day of Conspiracy Pascha Wednesday. Holy Pascha Week. Monday: Day of Authority - Isa 5:1-9  Fig tree Cleansing the Temple Tuesday: Day of Opposition - Hosea 4 Christ vs. Scribes and Pharisees Wednesday: Day of Conspiracy - Zac 11:11-14 Judas “Wednesday of Job”

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Day of Conspiracy Pascha Wednesday

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  1. Day of Conspiracy Pascha Wednesday

  2. Holy Pascha Week • Monday: Day of Authority - Isa 5:1-9  • Fig tree • Cleansing the Temple • Tuesday: Day of Opposition - Hosea 4 • Christ vs. Scribes and Pharisees • Wednesday: Day of Conspiracy -Zac 11:11-14 • Judas • “Wednesday of Job” • Thursday: Day of Covenant - Ezk 20:39-44 • Last Supper • Day of farewell • Friday: Day of Crucifixion - Isa 12:2-13:10

  3. Pascha Wednesday: Day of Conspiracy • The conspiracy of the Scribes and Pharisees to destroy Jesus and Judas’ plot to deliver him. • “It is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” (John 11)

  4. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 1st Hour (Matins ) – Conspiracy to kill Him • Exo 17 – “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!” • Prov 3– “Do not be wise in your own eyes;       Fear the LORD and depart from evil.” • Sirach 1- “Exalt not thyself, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, and so God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation, because thou camest not in truth to the fear of the Lord, but thy heart is full of deceit.”

  5. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 1st Hour (Matins ) – Conspiracy to kill Him • Ps 33: The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. • Jn11 – Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs… And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” … Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.

  6. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 3rd Hour – Plotting with Judas • Sir 22:  ”Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.” • Fool: Judas • Job 27: Though he heaps up silver like dust, and piles up clothing like clay—He may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. • Judas, the lover of silver, who profited nothing of it. • Prov 5: For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. • The lips of Judas: sweet words (“Rabbi”), but are swords

  7. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 3rd Hour – Plotting with Judas • Ps 41: “And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;         His heart gathers iniquity to itself;          When he goes out, he tells it.” • Lk 22: Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude.

  8. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 6th Hour – Conspiracy to entrap Christ • Exo 14 – “And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.” • Sir 23– “There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.”

  9. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 6th Hour – Conspiracy to entrap Christ • Ps 83 – “Your enemies make a tumult;  And those who hate You have lifted up their head.For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:.” • Jn 12– “But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”” • Infuriation against Christ • “… This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief”

  10. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 9th Hour – Judas’ agreement of betrayal • Num 20 – “Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” This was the water of Meribah,because the children of Israel contended with the LORD” • Prov 1- “My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait to shed blood… Cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse.” My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path”

  11. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 9th Hour – Judas’ agreement of betrayal • Isa 59 – “For your hands are defiled with blood,       And your fingers with iniquity;       Your lips have spoken lies,       Your tongue has muttered perversity. ” • Zac 11 - “Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. ” • Homily of Abba Shenouda – “Let us awake before the door of repentance is closed and we ask and hear “I do not know you” if we keep our sinful path.”

  12. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 9th Hour – Judas’ agreement of betrayal • Ps 41– “All who hate me whisper together against me; against me they devise my hurt.And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;         His heart gathers iniquity to itself ” • Matt 26 - “Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.”

  13. Readings of Pascha Wednesday • 11th Hour – Christ’s warning against darkness • Jn 12 - “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.”

  14. The Syrian “Shammy” Psalm • Peky~ronoc – Au[non • 3rd Hour of Tuesday: Peky~ronoc • “Your throne, God, is forever and ever.” • Matt 26 - “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” • 3rd Hour of eve of Thursday – Judas’ agreement of betrayal • Ps 55 – “His words were softer than oil,          Yet they were drawn swords.” : Au[non

  15. The Syrian “Shammy” Psalm • 1st Hour of Thursday: Au[non • “His words were softer than oil Yet they were drawn swords.” • Act 1- “Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;” • 12th hour of Friday: Peky~ronoc • “Your throne, God, is forever and ever.” • The hour of burial; to the world He is dead, to us, He lives forever and ever

  16. Betrayal of Christ • Read: Zackiah 11:4-14

  17. Rejection of the Shepherd • The people rejected the true Shepherd • He left them in the hands of poor shepherds and did not pity them any more: • For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD. (6)

  18. Two Staffs • “I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds;” (7) • Shepherds held 2 staffs: • Rod: to chase away wild animals • Staff: to guide the flock • Christ holds 2 staffs: • Beauty (grace) to guide us • Bonds to unite us in His Spirit • When they rejected Him, He removed His grace from them: • Ruin of the old testament church • “Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.” And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. (9-10)

  19. The Price of Betrayal • “Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.” (12) • What is the silver? • St. Didymus: Divine words and inspirations • “The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” (Ps 12:6) • “The tongue of the righteous is choice silver” (Pro 10:20)

  20. The Price of Betrayal • The silver (words) in itself is not the problem, rather the deception behind it (impurity): • “People will call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.” (Jer 6:30) • He rejected those who deceive and break the law • “His words were softer than oil,          Yet they were drawn swords.” (Ps 55) • “Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.” (Matt 26:49) • “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 7:21) • The price of betrayal is impure words of deception

  21. The Price of Betrayal • “And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me.” (13) • Potter – works with dirt – earth • Their words (silver) is concerned only with dirt (earthly things) • The price of betrayal is earthly gain

  22. The Price of Betrayal • They considered the Lord as a slave/servant • “If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver” (Exo 21:32) • 30 = 5 x 6 • 5 senses • 6: evil – incomplete, imperfection (7 is perfection) • 666: number of the beast • The price of betrayal is defiling of senses

  23. The Price of Betrayal • So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter.” (13) • St. Didymus: House of Potter – House of Bible • The impure silver is tested by the fire of the Scriptures to reveal its deception and contradiction • This impure silver is not fit for palaces nor treasures, it is only fit for dust and dirt (potter’s house) • The price of betrayal is living an earthly life (in dust and dirt)

  24. Field of Blood • “Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself. But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood.” And they consulted together and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.” (Matt 27:5-8)

  25. Field of Blood • “Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out. And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.” (Act 1:18-19)

  26. Field of Blood • Field “to bury strangers in.” • Gentiles die and are buried with Christ in the “Field of Blood” that they may rise with Him. • St. Jerome: “It is the place of our burial, for we are strangers, and have no place of rest. He was crucified and died and we were buried with Him.”

  27. Breaking the Staff of Bonds • “Then I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.” (14) • The former staff (Beauty) denoted the ruin of their church, by breaking the covenant between God and them—that defaced their beauty; • This staff (Bonds) denotes the ruin of their state, by breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. • Also breaking the bonds with the Spirit of God • Judah represents Christ (of the tribe of Judah) • Holy Spirit unites us with Christ • The price of betrayal is Loss of Holy Spirit

  28. Betrayal of Christ • Rejection of the Shepherd • Breaking “Beauty”: He removed His grace from them: Ruin of the old testament church • The price of betrayal is • impure words of deception • earthly gain • defiling of senses • living an earthly life (in dust and dirt) • Loss of Holy Spirit • Field of Blood: our burial with Christ

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