JESUS WAS BROUGHT BEFORE PILATE

Jesus was brought before Pilate

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Matthew 27:1-61 JESUS WAS BROUGHT BEFORE PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED AND PLACED IN A TOMB

Good Friday is the day we remember and celebrate that Jesus died on the cross.

Yes! You read correctly – CELEBRATE!

Jesus was delivered to Pilate, the Governor, when Pilate questioned Jesus He did not answer leaving Pilate amazed.  Pilate sent Jesus to be crucified, despite having a warning from his wife and asking the crowd, who he should release Jesus or Barabbas. The crowd chose Barabbas, a notorious prisoner, Pilate washed his hands of it all, Jesus was mocked.  Simon carried His cross and at a place called Golgotha they crucified Him.

We cannot know the pain He suffered He was cut off from His Father - the Ultimate pain. 

The first verse of the hymn by Paulus Gerharlt gives us a glimpse of the pain He suffered, we can only imagine.

O Sacred Head, once wounded

With grief and pain weighed down,

How scornfully surrounded

With thorns, Thine only crown!

How pale art Thou with anguish,

With sore abuse and scorn!

How does that visage languish,

Which once was bright as morn!

BUT it was necessary for Jesus to go through all the physical and mental pain that He suffered, otherwise there would be no eternal life for those who believe in Him. There is no other way. ‘He only is the way, the truth and the life’

Jesus was without sin, [Hebrews 4:15] He was the only one who could die on the cross and pay the penalty of death for all our sins, as He alone was the sinless one.

It was indeed a ‘wondrous cross’ as Isaac Watts declared in the hymn:- ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’.

It is a sad day, but it is a day to remember and CELEBRATE that Jesus died on the cross for us – otherwise where would we be?

When Jesus had died Joseph of Arimathea asked for the body of Jesus,  he took it and buried it in is own tomb. He sealed the tomb with a large stone, the women were watching ... but that is not the end ...

[written by Lynda Hunter]

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