Events: Jesus Led to Annas and Caiaphas – Jesus Mocked by the Religious Leaders – Jesus Denied by Peter – Jesus Led to Pilate – Jesus Taken to Herod – Pilate Offers Barabbas – Religious Leaders Demand Crucifixion – Jesus Scourged – The Robe, the Reed, and the Crown of Thorns – Simon the Cyrene Carries the Cross – Christ Crucified with Two Thieves – The Seven Sayings of the Cross – Jesus Commits His Spirit to the Father – The Earthquake, the Eclipse, the Torn Veil – Jesus Taken from the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus – Buried in the Tomb as the Women Watch
There were many times when the religious leaders attempted to kill Jesus, but He said in those moments, “My hour has not yet come.” The hour, had now come for Christ to suffer for the sins of not only Israel, but of the world (1 John 2:2). This day for Him, was filled with mockery and violence. Jesus was falsely accused before the Sanhedrin and beaten by the religious leaders.
The Roman government had stripped the Jews of the right to exercise capital punishment, so Jesus was led to Pilate where the religious leaders demanded that He be crucified. Ultimately, Pilate caved to the request and Jesus, after being scourged, was sent to Calvary where He would suffer the most excruciating form of death, crucifixion.
The Bible says in Romans 8:32, “God did not spare His own Son, but He delivered Him up for us all.” This is God’s love, that He gave His own Son to suffer in our place. All we like sheep have gone astray, each to his own way, but the Lord laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. It was the chastisement for our sins that was put upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53). Free and forgiven! No longer slaves of fear, but children of the Living God! All because of Jesus!
Meditate prayerfully on all that He endured for you, and all because of His great love for you. Nothing can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus!
Friday's events are recorded in Matthew 26:57-75; 27:1-62, Mark 14:53-72; 15:1-47, Luke 22:54-23:56, and John 18:12-19:37.
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