The Chief Priests take counsel together

[Monday]

Saint Mark - Chapter 11

The Chief Priests take counsel together. J-J Tissot

[18] Quo audito principes sacerdotum et scribae, quaerebant quomodo eum perderent : timebant enim eum, quoniam universa turba admirabatur super doctrina ejus.
Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.

Excerpt from The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by J-J Tissot (1897)

There was no doubt that the resurrection of Lazarus had forcibly appealed to the imagination of all, kindling the hopes of everyone, so that the official authorities were beginning to find themselves at the mercy of every caprice of the new Prophet.  Now, from the first he had shown little favour to the Pharisees, and they might therefore well fear that he would not hesitate to make a dead set against their influence.  There was, then, no time to be lost; they must have done with this man.  
The secret meeting in the hearts of Caiaphas was known, its probable results were commented on, and what would be the best measures to take to counteract this increase of popular fervour were equally discussed.  As for Jesus himself, all he did on that day was to pass through the Temple, which He entered from the town and left by the Susa gate which was later, notably in the time the Saracens, corrupttly called the Golden Gate.  Then, traversing the valley of Jehosophat, He was able, by climbing obliquely the Mount of Olives, to make his way to Bethany where, no doubt, He lived until the following Thursday.  However that may be, we shall leave Him no more, and the Gospel will give us details as numerous as they are precious on this last period of His life on earth. It will show him going to the Temple sometimes before daybreak, spending long hours there, and only returning home at night.  It will explain to us every act of His, however apparently trivial, in every hour, nay every minute; enable us to listen to these discourses; will invite us to receive the supreme admonitions, given in the addresses which became ever more and more frequent.  In a word,  the Gospel will initiate us into the mystery of those last days which were to end with the greatest event in the history of the human race.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam