The Passover at Jerusalem

142:0.1The month of April Je­sus and the apos­tles worked in Je­ru­sa­lem, go­ing out of the city each evening to spend the night at Beth­any. Je­sus him­self spent one or two nights each week in Je­ru­sa­lem at the home of Flav­ius, a Greek Jew, where many promi­nent Jews came in se­cret to in­ter­view him.

142:0.2The first day in Je­ru­sa­lem Je­sus called upon his friend of for­mer years, An­nas, the one­time high priest and rel­a­tive of Sa­lome, Zeb­e­dee’s wife. An­nas had been hear­ing about Je­sus and his teach­ings, and when Je­sus called at the high priest’s home, he was re­ceived with much re­serve. When Je­sus per­ceived An­nas’s cold­ness, he took im­me­di­ate leave, say­ing as he de­parted: “Fear is man’s chief en­slaver and pride his great weak­ness; will you be­tray your­self into bond­age to both of these de­stroy­ers of joy and lib­erty?” But An­nas made no re­ply. The Mas­ter did not again see An­nas un­til the time when he sat with his son-in-law in judg­ment on the Son of Man.