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0:00John chapter 19 verse 1. Pilate then
0:03took Jesus and scourged him.
0:07And the soldiers twisted together a
0:08crown of thorns
0:11and put it on his head
0:13and put a purple robe on him.
0:15All the Gospels tell us this story.
0:18All of them tell us
0:20that they put a crown of thorns on his
0:23head. But what do thorns represent?
0:26Thorns represent the curse.
0:30"Cursed be the ground because of you,"
0:33the Lord had said in the Garden of Eden.
0:35"Now it will bring forth thorns."
0:39And so the crown represents that he's a
0:42king.
0:44And the thorns represent
0:46that the curse of sin is what's going to
0:49kill him and that he's accepting
0:52that
0:53that curse
0:55of of the sin that we brought on the
0:57earth and brought on ourselves.
1:02And the robe, the purple robe, nobody
1:04was allowed to wear purple unless you
1:06were part of the royalty. It was the
1:08color itself signified that you were
1:11nobility.
1:14They put a purple robe on him and they
1:15began to come up to him and say, "Hail,
1:18King of the Jews."
1:21And to give him slaps in his face.
1:24Pilate came out again and said to them,
1:27"Behold, I am bringing him out to you
1:29so that you may know that I find no
1:31guilt in him."
1:35Jesus then came out wearing the crown of
1:38thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said
1:41to them,
1:42"Behold the man."
1:49That gets me.
1:54So you have to understand the scene.
1:56Pilate has a court.
1:59And so he's talking to Jesus
2:01inside
2:03his court behind closed doors.
2:06But the Jews
2:07won't enter that court of the Roman
2:10Gentile
2:11because they don't want to defile
2:13themselves before the Sabbath. So
2:15they're standing outside.
2:18And Pilate will come out to them and ask
2:20them questions.
2:23And after
2:25After he asks Jesus the questions, he
2:27decides that what he's going to do is
2:30abuse Jesus, rough him up really bad,
2:33beat him with a cat-of-nine-tails
2:36until the flesh is falling from his back
2:39and he's covered in blood,
2:41smash a crown of thorns onto his head,
2:44punch him in the face,
2:46beat him across the head with a reed,
2:49mock him,
2:50and then bring him out to the Jews so
2:52pulverized, so humiliated,
2:56that maybe they'll say that's good
2:57enough.
2:58You've taught him a lesson.
3:01Okay.
3:02So,
3:04Pilate
3:05goes in and he's this
3:08symbol of human authority.
3:11He's the symbol of the state.
3:14And that's the authority of the devil
3:16that is about to kill Jesus. And the
3:19chief priests and the rulers, they're
3:21the symbol of rebellious religious
3:23authority.
3:24And they're also a symbol of the demonic
3:27authority that is going to kill Jesus.
3:30And these two representations of
3:34Satanic authority are about to kill
3:36Jesus together.
3:38And ironically, the state is more
3:41reluctant
3:43to commit the murder
3:44than the religious are.
3:47But the state is being used and
3:49manipulated into the conspiracy
3:52that is ultimately based on envy and
3:55hatred.
3:58Competition toward the Lord.
4:00Do you understand?
4:02So,
4:03they bring him out
4:05and the whole accusation is that he's a
4:07blasphemer.
4:09And so, Pilate's statement is
4:12"Behold the man."
4:14It's like, "Look at the man."
4:18And that
4:19that captures
4:20the whole idea that
4:22this
4:24is what God's human being is supposed to
4:27be. This is what the Son of Man
4:30is, and this is what you do. This is
4:32what your hatred inflicts
4:36on the perfect human being that has ever
4:38lived. Oh, he's more than that.
4:41He's God in the flesh, but he's also the
4:44perfect man. So, he says,
4:47"Behold the man."
4:52When the chief priests and the officers
4:54saw him,
4:56did they say, "Okay, that's enough"?
4:59When they saw what their violence and
5:02hatred and lies and slander had done,
5:06did they say, "That's good enough"? No.
5:10Pilate brings him out, says, "Behold the
5:12man." So, when the chief priests and the
5:14officers saw him, they cried out saying,
5:18"Crucify! Crucify!"
5:22Pilate said to them,
5:24"Take him yourself and crucify him.
5:27For I find no guilt
5:30in him."
5:32That's the state confirming
5:35that
5:36even from a secular standpoint, he's
5:39innocent.
5:41There was no sin in him, nor was deceit
5:44found in his mouth. He was led like a
5:46lamb to the slaughter.
5:48And as a sheep before his shearers, so
5:50he opened not his mouth.
5:54The Jews answered him,
5:56"We have a law, and by that law, he
6:00ought to die because he made himself out
6:04to be the son of God."
6:08Which is to say, God, the almighty, the
6:12eternal
6:14God in human flesh.
6:17Therefore, when Pilate heard this
6:19statement, he was even more afraid.
6:24Now, John, with this statement, shows us
6:25that Pilate is actually nervous.
6:28He has some awareness, some
6:31superstition or some premonition that
6:34he's doing something he should not be
6:36doing.
6:37So, when he hears that Jesus is claiming
6:40to be the son of God,
6:42and that that's why they want to kill
6:43him, he's actually nervous.
6:46Therefore, when Pilate heard this
6:48statement, he was even more afraid.
6:50And he entered into the Praetorium again
6:53and said to Jesus,
6:56"Where are you from?"
6:59But Jesus gave him no answer.
7:02He's asking a man
7:04who has a crown of thorns on his head,
7:07who's been beaten to a bloody pulp.
7:12Isaiah said that he was beaten beyond
7:14recognition as a human being.
7:18So, Pilate said to him,
7:20"You do not speak to me?
7:23Do you not know that I have the
7:24authority to release you?
7:27And I have the authority to crucify
7:29you?"
7:31Jesus answered,
7:33"You would have no authority over me
7:35unless it had been given you from above.
7:38For this reason, he who delivered me to
7:41you
7:42has the greater sin.
7:49As a result of this, Pilate made efforts
7:52to release him.
7:55But the Jews cried out saying,
7:58"If you release this man, you are no
8:01friend of Caesar.
8:03Everyone who makes himself out to be a
8:06king opposes Caesar."
8:10In this, they're trying to trigger the
8:12political rivalry.
8:15He's an insurrectionist.
8:18He's a threat to the throne of Caesar.
8:22If you don't kill him,
8:24you're going to be an enemy of the
8:26state.
8:31Therefore, when Pilate heard these
8:33words, he brought Jesus out and sat down
8:37on the judgment seat at a place called
8:40the pavement,
8:41but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
8:43In Aramaic Hebrew,
8:47that means the platform.
8:50Now it was the day of preparation for
8:52the Passover.
8:55John wants us to know that this is the
8:57Passover
8:59because the lamb of the Passover is
9:02about to be slain.
9:03And in the Passover,
9:06the blood of this innocent lamb
9:08caused the angel and judgment of death
9:12to pass over the homes
9:15that were marked by this blood.
9:17And that's what Jesus is going to be for
9:19those who allow their hearts, their
9:22lives, their homes to be marked by his
9:24blood.
9:25He's going to mark them as those who
9:27whom the angel of death is going to pass
9:29over.
9:32Now it was the day of preparation for
9:33the Passover. It was about the sixth
9:36hour.
9:38And he said to the Jews,
9:40"Behold your king."
9:43So, last he said, "Behold the man."
9:46Now he says, "Behold your king."
9:50So, they cried out, "Away with him! Away
9:54with him! Crucify him!"
9:59The hatred, the contempt,
10:03the frenzy of hatred.
10:06Pilate said to them,
10:08"Shall I crucify your king?"
10:12The chief priests answered, "We have no
10:16king but Caesar."
10:22They deny
10:24the king that God gave them because his
10:26kingdom was not of this world.
10:29And they accept the debauched
10:31abomination
10:33of Caesar as their king because his
10:36kingdom is of this world. And they show
10:39in this that they are not of God.
10:42That their their power is of this world.
10:47So, he then handed him, Jesus, over to
10:50them to be crucified.
10:53They took Jesus, therefore,
10:56and he went out
10:57bearing his own cross
10:59to the place
11:01called the place of a skull,
11:05which is called in Hebrew Golgotha.
11:10There
11:11they crucified him, and with him two
11:13other men,
11:15one on either side,
11:17and Jesus in between.
11:21Pilate also wrote an inscription
11:23and put it on the cross.
11:25It was written, "Jesus the Nazarene,
11:29the king of the Jews.
11:33Pilate wants to demonstrate
11:36that they are killing him because of
11:40their competition.
11:41He wants to demonstrate
11:44that they are killing him because he is
11:47the king.
11:48And they don't want a king.
11:51Therefore, many of the Jews read this
11:53inscription, for the place where Jesus
11:55was crucified was near the city. And it
11:58was written in Hebrew, Latin, and in
12:01Greek.
12:02So, the chief priests of the Jews were
12:04saying to Pilate, "Do not write the king
12:07of the Jews,
12:09but that he said, 'I am the king of the
12:11Jews.'"
12:13Pilate answered,
12:15"What I have written, I have written."
12:19Then the soldiers, when they had
12:21crucified Jesus,
12:23took his outer garments
12:25and made four parts,
12:27a part to every soldier, and also the
12:30tunic. Now, the tunic was seamless,
12:33woven in one piece.
12:36So, they said to one another, "Let us
12:38not tear it,
12:39but cast lots for it to decide whose it
12:42shall be."
12:44This was to fulfill the scripture, "They
12:46divided my outer garments among them,
12:50and for my clothing, they cast lots."
12:53Therefore, the soldiers did these
12:55things.
12:57A seamless tunic was extremely
12:59expensive, a very valuable garment, so
13:02they didn't want to tear it.
13:04But his outer garment was valuable
13:06enough
13:07that they did want it, so they tore it
13:09into four pieces,
13:11so the soldiers could take it and make
13:12something out of the valuable cloth.
13:17Therefore, the soldiers did these
13:18things.
13:19But standing by the cross of Jesus were
13:22his mother,
13:23and his mother's sister, Mary the wife
13:26of Clopas,
13:28and Mary Magdalene.
13:30So, Jesus' mother and Jesus' aunt
13:33are at the cross along with Mary
13:35Magdalene.
13:37When Jesus then saw his mother
13:40and the disciple whom he loved, that's
13:43John, standing nearby,
13:46he said to his mother,
13:48"Woman,
13:49behold
13:51your son."
13:53Then he said to the disciple,
13:56"Behold your mother."
13:59From that hour the disciple took her
14:01into his own household.
14:04After this, Jesus knowing that all
14:07things had already been accomplished to
14:09fulfill the scripture said,
14:11"I am thirsty."
14:14There are many things that Jesus said
14:15from the cross and different ones
14:17remember different things, and together
14:19we get the full picture.
14:21He prays for the forgiveness of those
14:24who are tormenting him.
14:26But in this story,
14:28in John's remembrance,
14:31Jesus is looking after his own mom.
14:35And he's recognizing that he's going to
14:37be absent.
14:39And his mother is not going to have his
14:41presence in her life, and so he
14:44says to her,
14:46"John, my friend whom I love is going to
14:49be your son.
14:51And John, you take care of her
14:53as your mother."
14:54And so, John takes her into his home,
14:57into his household, and takes care of
14:59her from that time on.
15:01It's another example
15:03of how intimately he was
15:06considering and caring for
15:09those in his
15:10in his care.
15:13He says, "I am thirsty."
15:15A jar full of sour wine was standing
15:17there, so they put a sponge full of the
15:20sour wine upon a branch of hyssop
15:23and brought it up to his mouth.
15:25Therefore, when Jesus
15:26had received
15:28the sour wine, he said,
15:31"It is finished."
15:33And he bowed his head and gave up his
15:36spirit.
15:38So,
15:40he says, "It is finished."
15:44His agony, his suffering, his pain
15:47is finished.
15:49The bearing of this crown of thorns,
15:52this judgment of sin that we
15:56brought on ourselves, that he then took
15:59upon himself.
16:01The anguish, the judgment is finished.
16:03He's born it all.
16:05There's nothing more for us to suffer.
16:08He's absorbed it all into himself, and
16:11he says, "It is finished." He gave up
16:14his spirit. And what was that spirit
16:16that he gave up?
16:18It was the God who lived inside of him.
16:21It was the Father. So, in the other
16:23gospels,
16:24this moment is described by him saying,
16:27"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani."
16:29Literally, "My God, my God," or "The God
16:32of me, the God of me, why have you left
16:35me behind?"
16:36And when that divine presence living
16:38inside of him departs,
16:41he dies. He ceases to live because
16:44that's the animation that made the human
16:47life the divine life.
16:49But in that, he knows the separation
16:52between himself and God.
16:54In that, he tastes the eternal damnation
16:57that we would know when we would be
16:59separated from the presence of the Lord
17:03in judgment. And he partakes of that on
17:05our behalf.
17:07And his filling up and drinking of the
17:09cup of judgment is complete. It is full.
17:13It is finished.
17:16Then the Jews, because it was the day of
17:18preparation,
17:19so that the bodies would not remain on
17:21the cross on the Sabbath
17:24for that Sabbath was a high day, asked
17:27Pilate
17:28that their legs might be broken so that
17:31they might be taken away. So the
17:33soldiers came and broke the legs of the
17:36first man and of the other who was
17:38crucified with him.
17:40But coming to Jesus, when they saw that
17:42he was already dead, they did not break
17:45his legs. But one of the soldiers
17:47pierced his side with a spear and
17:49immediately blood and water came out.
17:54And he who has seen testified, and his
17:57testimony is true, and he knows that he
18:00is telling the truth
18:02so that you also may believe. John is
18:05speaking of himself. He's saying, "I'm
18:06telling you exactly what I saw
18:09and my testimony is true."
18:11For these things came to pass to fulfill
18:13the scripture,
18:15"Not a bone of him shall be broken."
18:18And again another scripture says, "They
18:20shall look on him whom they have
18:22pierced."
18:25After these things, Joseph of Arimathea,
18:27being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret
18:30one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate
18:34that he might take away the body of
18:35Jesus, and Pilate granted permission.
18:39So he came and took away his body.
18:42Nicodemus, who had first come to him by
18:45night,
18:47also came,
18:49bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
18:52about a hundred pounds weight.
18:54So they took the body of Jesus and bound
18:57it in linen wrapping with the spices, as
19:00is the burial custom of the Jews.
19:04Now in the place where he was crucified,
19:06there was a garden,
19:08and in the garden a new tomb
19:11in which no one had yet been laid.
19:14Therefore, because of the Jewish day of
19:16preparation, since the tomb was nearby,
19:20they laid Jesus there.

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