[21b] When the high priest and his companions arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin, the full senate of the Israelites, and sent to the jail to have them brought in. [22] But the court officers who went did not find them in the prison, so they came back and reported, [23] "We found the jail securely locked and the guards stationed outside the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside." [24] When they heard this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were at a loss about them, as to what this would come to. [25] Then someone came in and reported to them, "The men whom you put in prison are in the temple area and are teaching the people." [26] Then the captain and the court officers went and brought them in, but without force, because they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
(CCC 450) From the beginning of Christian history, the assertion of Christ's lordship over the world and over history has implicitly recognized that man should not submit his personal freedom in an absolute manner to any earthly power, but only to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Caesar is not "the Lord" (Cf. Rev 11:15; Mk 12:17; Acts 5:29). "The Church… believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of man's history is to be found in its Lord and Master" (GS 10 § 3; cf. 45 § 2). (CCC 449) By attributing to Jesus the divine title "Lord", the first confessions of the Church's faith affirm from the beginning that the power, honor and glory due to God the Father are due also to Jesus, because "he was in the form of God" (Cf. Acts 2:34 - 36; Rom 9:5; Titus 2:13; Rev 5:13; Phil 2:6), and the Father manifested the sovereignty of Jesus by raising him from the dead and exalting him into his glory (Cf. Rom 10:9; 1 Cor 12:3; Phil 2:9-11).
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