If you knew that in just a couple of days you would be brutally murdered by a group of people, what would be going through your mind? What would your attitude be, especially toward that group? How interested would you be in minor issues like where to eat or what to wear? Wouldn’t you want the truth about that group of people to be made known? I think you would and I think that was what was going through the mind of Jesus on Tuesday of Passion Week. He didn’t spend that day blaming the Romans for their treatment of the Jews. He didn’t lay guilt on unbelievers for their lack of faith. He poked a figurative finger in the eye of the religious leaders for their hypocrisy and double standards. He wasn’t calling them out for the coming murder they had planned for Him. He called them out for the lack of truth they lived and taught. Above all, we strive for truth.
Read about the last Tuesday of Jesus in these passages and meditate on what is truth.