Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Breaking the bands and casting away the cords is a defiant attempt to break free from the authority of God and His Anointed and to throw off its restraints. The verse applies to the rulers' opposition to Christ, including chief priests, Pharisees, Pilate and Roman soldiers, whose rage and plans against the Lord and His Anointed are vain, weak and foolish imagining. That opposition was shown at the tomb when the stone was sealed and a watch was set, with Roman guards and Roman arms posted to keep Christ's body, the Lord of life, confined in death, but they could not confine Him in the sepulcher.
God, with His holy angels, looks upon those preparations with laughter and derision. The hour of Christ's release and victory in resurrection from the dead was near. The victory was certain because Christ has power to lay down His life and to take it up again, so the vain resistance makes His triumph more complete. The same rebellion appears in the Jews' opposition to Christ and their effort to have Peter killed, but human power cannot prevail against the Lord, and divine power intervenes to prevent the bloodshed.
Breaking the bands and casting away the cords is a defiant attempt to break free from the authority of God and His Anointed and to throw off its restraints. The verse applies to the rulers' opposition to Christ, including chief priests, Pharisees, Pilate and Roman soldiers, whose rage and plans against the Lord and His Anointed are vain, weak and foolish imagining. That opposition was shown at the tomb when the stone was sealed and a watch was set, with Roman guards and Roman arms posted to keep Christ's body, the Lord of life, confined in death, but they could not confine Him in the sepulcher.
God, with His holy angels, looks upon those preparations with laughter and derision. The hour of Christ's release and victory in resurrection from the dead was near. The victory was certain because Christ has power to lay down His life and to take it up again, so the vain resistance makes His triumph more complete. The same rebellion appears in the Jews' opposition to Christ and their effort to have Peter killed, but human power cannot prevail against the Lord, and divine power intervenes to prevent the bloodshed.