Matthew 5:17-20
Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
John 11:45-57
The Plot of Men to Kill Jesus
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
Jesus said He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets writings but He came to fulfill the Law of Moses and what the Prophets had written in Scripture...So, this being the case we know that He knew the Mosaic Law by the letter...Jesus knew every dotted "i" and crossed "t" of the Law, because His coming to earth fulfilled what Moses and the Prophets had written about this Law...And the most interesting thing is Jesus followed the Law and the Prophets and the Bible, because He is in every word of the Law and in the ever word of the Prophets...And therefore, He is the Bible...
And so, Jesus knew the Law that had been written many years ago, and He fulfilled that Law...And He knew and knows Scripture in every context...Yet, Jesus was a Man of Change...He was unique, innovative, groundbreaker, an independent thinker, and quite disruptive...He was One who followed His own ideas and thoughts, and by doing this, some of His time might has thought He was a radical...He was never dull...And He would be hung from a cross to die for our sins...And that was God’s Plan, yet it was also the plan of the religious officials that were around in His day...It is funny that the Plan of God got fulfilled, while at the same time the plan of unscrupulous men also got fulfilled...It is odd because God sent Jesus to help us understand Him and His Son better, while men just wanted Him dead, so He would no longer disrupt other people by what He was teaching...The Pharisees and teachers thought that .if they let him go on like teaching as He did, everyone would start to believe in Him, and then the Romans would come and take away both their temple and their nation...So from a man’s point of view, we as men killed Him...And we did it within the laws of His country it seems...And the men, who had Him sentenced and crucified were the men of the law, and knew the law the best, especially God’s Law...They were Pharisees and Teachers of the Law and being in these two groups, you knew what the Law of Moses was and what the Prophets had written probably better or as well as anyone...So it seems it was not a criminal or criminals that took on Jesus and had Him crucified, it was those followers of the law and the ones that knew it best that had Him crucified to die...And in doing so they helped fulfill God's Plan...God's Plan was that He would die on a cross for our sins, which He did fulfilling what Moses and the Prophets had written long ago...
Change is not always wanted...The men who wanted Jesus dead, wanted things in Israel and in their Jewish communities to be the same and remain the same...Jesus wanted and wants us to know the Truth, so we can be set free, to follow and understand God a little bit better...I think that some of the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law wanted the status quo of their time to remain the same, more than they wanted the people to know who Jesus was, and did not care that the people knew what the Truth was about Jesus...