‘Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.’ But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.” Jesus didn’t defend himself because he knew that if it was the Father’s will then the cup would pass from him; not by his own doing but from the Lord’s. If we have absolute trust in our father then we don’t need to try to defend ourselves; 1 John 2:1 states that Jesus Christ is our Advocate and will push for us before no matter what even before His Father. The problem is that we are too busy protecting ourselves that we don’t defend the ones God has called us too. But if we trust God to be God and know that he is faithful to us then we can do what is asked for us which is to, “speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; …show more content…
An Old Testament story that foreshadows Christ denying his own human flesh in order to defend us against the wages of sin and death, is the awesome story of Esther. When Mordechai finds out about King Xerxes law to annihilate the Jews, he turns to his cousin. The first time that Mordecai requests that Esther go to the King and beg for mercy, she refuses. She replies saying that she could be killed for simply going before the King without being summoned. And since the King hadn’t summoned for her for 30 days, she probably wasn’t very popular on the Kings list. Also, even if the King allowed her in his presence and reached out his golden scepter, she still wasn’t completely safe. She had kept from him the fact that she was a Jew. What if when he found out, he kept his decree and made sure she was killed even if she was his Queen? The