And when the days of Moses were ended, and the light of
Jesus, shining forth from the dayspring of the Spirit, encompassed the world,
all the people of Israel arose in protest against Him. (Baha’u’llah, Book of
Certitude )
Reflect how Jesus, the Spirit of God, was, notwithstanding
His extreme meekness and perfect tender-heartedness, treated by His enemies. So
fierce was the opposition which He, the Essence of Being and Lord of the
visible and invisible, had to face, that He had nowhere to lay His head. He
wandered continually from place to place, deprived of a permanent abode. (Baha’u’llah,
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah)
Similarly, call thou to mind the day when the Jews, who had surrounded Jesus, Son of Mary, were pressing Him to confess His claim of being the Messiah and Prophet of God, so that they might declare Him an infidel and sentence Him to death. Then, they led Him away, He Who was the Day-star of the heaven of divine Revelation, unto Pilate and Caiaphas, who was the leading divine of that age. The chief priests were all assembled in the palace, also a multitude of people who had gathered to witness His sufferings, to deride and injure Him. Though they repeatedly questioned Him, hoping that He would confess His claim, yet Jesus held His peace and spake not. Finally, an accursed of God arose and, approaching Jesus, adjured Him saying: “Didst thou not claim to be the Divine Messiah? Didst thou not say, ‘I am the King of Kings, My word is the Word of God, and I am the breaker of the Sabbath day?’” Thereupon Jesus lifted up His head and said: “Beholdest thou not the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and might?” These were His words, and yet consider how to outward seeming He was devoid of all power except that inner power which was of God and which had encompassed all that is in heaven and on earth. How can I relate all that befell Him after He spoke these words? How shall I describe their heinous behaviour towards Him? They at last heaped on His blessed Person such woes that He took His flight unto the fourth Heaven. (Baha’u’llah, Book of Certitude)
… consider Jesus, the Son of Mary. When that Manifestation
of the All-Merciful revealed Himself, all the divines charged that Quintessence
of faith with impiety and rebellion. Eventually, with the sanction of Annas,
the most learned of the divines of His day, and Caiaphas, the high priest, His
blessed person was made to suffer that which the pen is ashamed to mention and
powerless to describe. The wide world in all its vastness could no longer
contain Him, until at last God raised Him up unto heaven. (Baha’u’llah, Summons
of the Lord of Host)
