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both our place and nation.” John 11:48. If

Christ were sacrificed, they might once more

become a strong, united people. Thus they

reasoned, and they concurred in the decision

of their high priest, that it would be better for

one man to die than for the whole nation to

perish.

Thus the Jewish leaders had built up “Zion

with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”

Micah 3:10. And yet, while they slew their

Saviour because He reproved their sins, such

was their self-righteousness that they

regarded themselves as God's favored people

and expected the Lord to deliver them from

their enemies. “Therefore,” continued the

prophet, “shall Zion for your sake be plowed

as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps,

and the mountain of the house as the high

places of the forest.” Verse 12.