<p>14:30 <i>I will no longer say much to you. For the prince of the world comes; but he has no claim on me</i>- There was a Rabbinic tradition that the whole world was under the power of the Angel of death which controlled Egypt at the first Passover, but had no dominion over Israel. They referred to this Angel as&nbsp;the <i>Sar ha-olam</i>, and at the time of Jesus the phrase &quot;Prince of this world&quot; would have been understood as referring to this Angel. This is how the Lord's use of the phrase would have been understood. He described the &quot;prince of this world&quot;- the Angel of death and darkness- as coming to him and finding nothing in Him. This would be alluding to the Angel of death at the first Passover (and Jesus was speaking at Passover time) coming to each house and finding nothing worthy of death there because of the blood of the lamb on the lintel. Jesus may have been using the 'language of the day' as He did regarding Beelzebub and demons, but the consistent fitting of the type implies Jesus believed the Rabbinic idea was at least partially correct, in that the whole world apart from Israel was under the control of a specific Angel. However, spiritually Israel were not under the protection of the blood of the lamb because they rejected Christ. The &quot;prince of this world&quot; Angel would therefore destroy them too. I have suggested on 12:31 that this prince refers to leader of the Jewish system, Caiaphas. This man, the very epitome of apparent spirituality, who had dominion over Israel, was being compared to the Angel of evil which the Jews believed had dominion over the Jews' enemies but not over the Jews. The Lord is turning it all around, to show that actually the Jews were like the Egyptians, and were under the domination of a leader who would not preserve them from the destruction now coming to them.</p><p>The Jews believed that the <i>Sar ha-olam </i>had no claim upon the Jews who were the true Israel, covered by the blood of the Passover lamb. The Lord is saying that <i>He </i>is that true Israel upon whom Caiaphas and his evil system had no power. This is the force of &quot;he has no claim on me&quot;. The Angel whom the Jews thought would not touch them because of the other Angels hovering over them (the real idea of the word 'Passover') to protect them from the destroying Angel, was going to destroy them; the protecting Angel which hovered over them and led them through the wilderness was &quot;turned to be their enemy&quot;- i.e. to be the destroying Angel (Is. 63:10), the <i>Sar ha-olam</i>. And that destroying Angel was operating on earth through his human representative, Caiaphas, the prince of the Jewish world.</p>