In the twenty-second chapter of Luke we read that as "the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh" the scribes and chief priests were endeavoring to find some reason to satisfy their desire to kill Jesus. Jesus had told his disciples that he desired to eat the Passover with them, for he would not again partake of this feast until his mission was fulfilled, or until the kingdom of God should come.
Together they partook of this sacred meal and the disciples received his blessing and benediction. Although they had continued with him in many trials and temptations and witnessed his many wonderful healings and victories, yet they had not risen above the personal, material sense of Jesus or of themselves. When they should have been supporting him in the great trial awaiting him, there was confusion, and "a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest." Lovingly he rebuked them and endeavored to awaken them to a true sense of humility and obedience by saying that he was among them "as he that serveth."
It was ignorance of man and his real heritage as God's child that caused the jealousy and hatred of the scribes and chief priests who were plotting to kill Jesus. It was the same aggressive mental suggestion of the carnal mind which caused the disciples to lose sight of the Christ, to quarrel among themselves, seeking to gain place and power, and thus become weary and asleep to their duty and opportunity to support their Master, or to even watch with him a single hour. Christ, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us, is "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583). In other words, it is the divine idea, which comes to men to destroy their belief in the flesh, and to resurrect them from the mortal sense of man to the fact that man is eternally spiritual, perfect, and immortal.
