Luke 11:45-54
“Notice what you notice.” The lawyer (scribe) could have just sat there watching Jesus denounce the Pharisees. But he had to join in, somehow feeling the same rebuke – which he then got, full force!
I’m confused about Jesus’ comment …that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation… (v. 50). “This generation”… That’s the confusing part. I can understand that “this generation” is the generation in which Jesus is personally ministering and thus His listeners have a greater responsibility to hear Him and heed His words. But I also wondered if the “blood…charged against this generation” would be His own blood that He shed on Good Friday, since He would be dying for all the sins and sinners who had ever lived or would ever live, even those who were his most forceful enemies in “this generation”. That is, “the blood of all the prophets…” would be charged against “this generation”, but He Himself would then shed His own blood in His substitutionary death. Therein is that mix of love and reproach that I was looking for yesterday. But I remain confused…
Slava Bohu!