"This Man Deserves to Die!" Sts. Simon and Jude 2026

<p><strong>“This man deserves to die!”</strong> Notice who says it. Not the Babylonians. Not the pagans. The priests and the prophets. The men who wore the vestments and spoke in the Lord’s name stood in the Lord’s house and told the princes and all the people, <strong>“This man deserves to die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears”</strong> (Jer. 26:11).</p><p>Jeremiah’s crime was that he said what God sent him to say. The temple would become like Shiloh. The city would be a curse. Repent, or it will all come down. That’s a hard word to hear in church. So the church people did what church people still do with a hard word. They went after the man who said it.</p>