In Matthew 26, we have the well known passages of Jesus' anointed with costly oil, the preparation of the Upper Room, The Last Supper, Jesus in Gethsemane, betrayal, arrest, and trial. I was more aware this in this reading of what Jesus said when the mob to arrest arrived.
"At that time Jesus said to the crowd, "Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me. But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted him and fled."
In the opposite of a Nicodemus conversion at night, they came to avoid the crowd too...but their motive was to make the arrest look more suspicious. Jesus' Word to them makes this clear. Evil does often lurk in the shadows and not in the light of day. They could have arrested Jesus without clubs and without resistance.
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