As Christmas is fast approaching if I am ready or not I am finding myself doing alot of reflecting on times gone past.... I am so thankful for the family and friend that I have had that are no longer with me physically. I do find that I am with them more now than when they were alive because I think of them sooo often. I truly am blessed to have those memories. Some of the memories are hard to remember... Some make me feel very lonely... Some make me hope that my children (I can't even go there!) For the most part I find myself smelling something or tasting something and the memories come rushing back. Very real I close my eyes and it is like I am back to the place of the smells and tastes....Does anyone else have these???
Chapter 27:
1-7 Taking your own life... The guilt he must have felt... (10 more prophecy fullfilled...Zech 11:12,13 & Jer 19:1-13,32:6-9
I usually read and something will catch my eye and stop and post....today I couldn't stop reading I have copied and pasted from bible gateway.....
POWERFULL!!
11Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
12When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer. 13Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?" 14But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.
15Now it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. 17So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" 18For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor.
"Barabbas," they answered. 22"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!" 23"Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!" 24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!" 25All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
26Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucifiedhe Soldiers Mock Jesus
27Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. 30They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
The Crucifixion
32As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33They came to a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). 34There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.[b] 36And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37Above his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 38Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
41In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42"He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' " 44In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
The Death of Jesus
45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. 46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi,[c] lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"[d]
47When some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling Elijah."
48Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49The rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."
50And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 52The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
54When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son[e] of God!"
55Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. 56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.
The Burial of Jesus
57As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
The Guard at the Tomb
62The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63"Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' 64So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first."
65"Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how." 66So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
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Mona....I think many of us can be transported back in time by the sights/smells/sounds we encounter. I know that hearing the first few notes of a song I haven't heard in years often brings not only the words to mind, but where I was when the song was popular. :)
ReplyDeleteverses 15-26 Seems as if Pilate allowed himself to be directed by the crowd....not wanting to stand firm and do his job, he just let others "bully" him into doing something he knew was wrong. Interesting that his wife tried to convince him to let Jesus go and he wouldn't listen to her either. Don't we often do the same? We bow to peer pressure or don't do what we know we need to do to advance the kingdom because of what others might say or do.
verse 46 It's hard to imagine what Jesus must have felt during those last moments when He cried out for His Father. Taking the sins of all of us upon Him resulted in this separation from God...even a short separation must have been unbearable.
verses 50-53 I can't begin to visualize the terror people must have felt at the time of Christ's death----the darkness that settled over the land, the eathquake, the curtain in the Temple tearing from top to bottom, the bodies of men and women raising from the dead after Christ's resurrection. The fear must have been unbelievable.
verse 51 I always liked this verse since it so clearly shows that the wall that had separated us from God (and required having a priest stand in our place) was gone....we would forever have access to our Father without having to go through a representative (priest).
verses 62-66 The religious leaders may have acted as if they didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah however, they weren't taking any chances that his teaching about his resurrection was true. They not only wanted His tomb sealed, but they took the additional precaution of having it guarded. Pretty stong measures for people who didn't believe the teachings of Jesus. They feared Him both in life and in death.
Dorothy thanks so much for your comments... I was so consumed by the "story" I could not focus on the words/ideas. This journey has been such a interesting journey for me! I love the thought of a bible study in my pj's and drinking coffee!! When the time is right for all. Reading this passage today really hit home all that Jesus took on for me and my sins. For so long I focused on others needs and sins that it removed it from me. Not today I as I read it was all about ME!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your words.