They sent spies... Luke 20:20

Luke 20 describes an astonishing discovery made by the searchers. The teachers of the Law and the chief priests sent spies to look for flaws defects or anything that falls short of perfection – in morality in ethics in words or actions of the man called Jesus of Nazareth. Imagine Jesus being examined under a huge magnifier.

In my backyard I see a lot of bugs. To see what they are, every once in a while I catch bugs and put them under a  microscope. Once I did it to a queen termite! Yeooiiii….kkkkk. It was disgusting. Imagine someone coming to you to dust you off. There is no one who is perfect. No one is flawless or faultless. The Bible says there is no one who is righteous. None, nada, nill, or in Korean “hansaramdo upseo!”

But it was not so with Jesus. So Luke 20:26 reads, “they became silent”. Not that they ‘were’ silent, but that they ‘became’ silent. They were noisy on their coming but now they became silent. 

Jesus was faultless. The faultlessness of our Lord Jesus is the source of the true hope – the hope to reach perfection, that is, the hope to be reconnected with God the Father who is infinitely perfect. Sin separates man from God. But God sent Jesus who is sinless. Being a sinless person while on earth, he enjoyed a seamless relationship with God the Father. This is why miracles were commonplace in His life.

Now, the examiners (fault-finders)  were ready to offer the spotless Lamb of God to God, so in and through Him all of our sins would be wiped out, be restored to Him, so that all who put trust in Him can walk in His love and power,  in perfect holiness!