Dear Reader, On this Weekend in which we remember the Death, Burial and Resurrection of the Lord, may we contemplate the cross! Here is a small summary from the verses in John that speak of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Today is good Friday and this is what we remember:
Jesus was to be crucified. The Romans
took Him, as He bore His own cross to the place called the skull, which is
Golgotha, in Hebrew. There, they crucified Him. John spends little time on
this. He does not go into detail concerning how He was crucified, or the
reality of the pain and agony. He does not dwell on the suffering he went through in our place! The very word crucifixion entails the horror of
the deed.
Pilate, had an inscription written that
said, “Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.” and nailed to the cross above the
head of Jesus. Even though it was Pilate’s
intention to mock the Jews one last time, the words he chose to write were
indeed true. As commentator Bruce says, “The crucified one is the true king,
the kingliest of all; because it is He who is stretched on the cross, he turns
an obscene instrument of torture into a throne of glory and ‘reigns from the
tree.’”
Oh, Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble!
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