They laid hands on Jesus and arrested him... they took Jesus to the high priests; and all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes were gathered. (Mark 14.46,53)
Already this year has a strange feel to it, you might say. Changes in leadership and direction; established institutions on the brink of fragmenting and an underlying sense of unease - where will we all end up?
Somebody said to me last week that he was fed up with the Referendum Campaign and wished it had never happened: ‘What do we pay politicians for, if it isn’t to take decisions on behalf of the rest of us?’, he asked.