…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 (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
