The Lord appears before the religious and political leaders of the moment – a true atrocity since there has never been a more innocent man. Great must have been his pain when he knew he had been betrayed by one of his own, Judas, one who chose to close his eyes and betray them as an evildoer, making him a target of distrust, a source of controversy.
Christ’s entire life, his words and his works would suddenly fall under the shadow of suspicion. Suddenly, the light of the teacher has become a cause of doubt among locals and strangers. The God-Made-Man finds himself, suddenly, subject to the powers of this world. He is not tortured yet, but people no longer recognize him. Before Jesus received the first blow, we men had already disfigured him.
It is worth asking then: isn’t this similar to those moments in which each of us, his ‘occasional’ executioners, sit Jesus on the bench and make him the target of our suspicions, and subject him to our judgment, to our distrust? , to our capricious vision of things?