March 14th
JESUS’ FINAL WEEK
Action: During the night before his crucifixion Jesus underwent a trial that fell into six parts: (1) he was brought before Annas, (2) then Caiaphas, (3) examined by an unofficial kangaroo court of the Sanhedrin (which was illegal for a dozen reasons) followed by an early morning convening to carry out the official trial, (4) then to Pilate, (5) Herod, and (6) back to Pilate.
After the overnight illegal proceedings (point 3 above) Matthew 27:2 reports, “And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.” The word “bound” is the Greek word desantes, the same word that would be used to describe the binding, tying up, or securing of an animal. They word apago - “led him away” was used of a shepherd who ties a rope around the neck of his sheep and then leads it down a path. The soldiers slipped a rope about Jesus’ neck and walked the “Lamb of God” through the streets.
Gabbatha, a raised stone platform connected to Pilates residence, is associated with the scourging, mocking and crowning of Jesus. Peter told his readers, “by whose stripes you are healed” (1 Pet 2:24, Diaglott). The word “stripes” describes a full-body bruise. As Psalm 129 foretelling Messiah’s treatment said, “They scored my back with scourges, like ploughmen driving long furrows.”
Application: Such extreme suffering – just why did Jesus allow himself to be “led” to the cross? “That he might lead us to God” (1 Pet 3:18) Are you following your leader?
JESUS’ FINAL WEEK
THURSDAY – The Trial
THURSDAY – The Trial
The sins of us himself carried up in the body of himself to the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; of whom by the scars of him you were healed.
1 Peter 2:24, The Emphatic Diaglott
1 Peter 2:24, The Emphatic Diaglott
Action: During the night before his crucifixion Jesus underwent a trial that fell into six parts: (1) he was brought before Annas, (2) then Caiaphas, (3) examined by an unofficial kangaroo court of the Sanhedrin (which was illegal for a dozen reasons) followed by an early morning convening to carry out the official trial, (4) then to Pilate, (5) Herod, and (6) back to Pilate.
After the overnight illegal proceedings (point 3 above) Matthew 27:2 reports, “And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.” The word “bound” is the Greek word desantes, the same word that would be used to describe the binding, tying up, or securing of an animal. They word apago - “led him away” was used of a shepherd who ties a rope around the neck of his sheep and then leads it down a path. The soldiers slipped a rope about Jesus’ neck and walked the “Lamb of God” through the streets.
Gabbatha, a raised stone platform connected to Pilates residence, is associated with the scourging, mocking and crowning of Jesus. Peter told his readers, “by whose stripes you are healed” (1 Pet 2:24, Diaglott). The word “stripes” describes a full-body bruise. As Psalm 129 foretelling Messiah’s treatment said, “They scored my back with scourges, like ploughmen driving long furrows.”
Application: Such extreme suffering – just why did Jesus allow himself to be “led” to the cross? “That he might lead us to God” (1 Pet 3:18) Are you following your leader?
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That should have been me!
That should have been me!