Mark 15 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams — Transcript

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1. 0:00Mark 15:1 [music]
2. 0:03Early in the morning, the chief priests
3. 0:06with the elders and scribes and the
4. 0:08whole council immediately held [music] a
5. 0:11consultation
6. 0:12and binding Jesus, they led him away and
7. 0:16delivered him to Pilate.
8. 0:19Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king
9. 0:22of the Jews?"
10. 0:25And he answered him, "It is as you say."
11. 0:29The chief priests [music] began to
12. 0:31accuse him harshly.
13. 0:33Then Pilate questioned him again,
14. 0:35saying, "Do you not answer?
15. 0:39See how many charges they bring against
16. 0:41you?"
17. 0:42But Jesus made no further answer. So
18. 0:45Pilate was amazed.
19. 0:50Now at the [music] feast he used to
20. 0:52release for them any one prisoner whom
21. 0:54they requested.
22. 0:56The man named Barabbus
23. 0:59had been imprisoned with the
24. 1:02insurrectionists
25. 1:04who had committed murder in the
26. 1:06insurrection.
27. 1:09The crowd went up and began asking him
28. 1:12to do as he had been [music] accustomed
29. 1:14to do for them.
30. 1:15Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you
31. 1:18want me to release for you the king of
32. 1:20the Jews?"
33. 1:23So, we have an insurrectionist.
34. 1:26We have a revolt. A bunch of people rose
35. 1:30up against [music] the Roman state and
36. 1:32they've been put in prison and they're
37. 1:34going to be crucified. They're
38. 1:36murderers. One of them is Barabbus.
39. 1:40And so on the day of the feast, [music]
40. 1:42it is Pilate's custom to release one of
41. 1:44the prisoners. And they come and ask him
42. 1:47to do it. And he says, "Do you want me
43. 1:50to release to you? Do you want me to
44. 1:53release for you the king of the Jews?"
45. 1:57Pilot's thinking, "Maybe I'll release
46. 1:58Jesus."
47. 2:00This lamb, this one who's never hurt
48. 2:03anyone, who's healed, who's cleansed,
49. 2:07who's preached, who's taught love of
50. 2:10one's neighbor, and turning the other
51. 2:11cheek. Would you like me to release him
52. 2:14to you?
53. 2:16For he was aware that the chief priest
54. 2:19had handed him over because of envy.
55. 2:23Pilate knows that Jesus has no real
56. 2:25charges. They just are envious of the
57. 2:28attention he's getting. He has an
58. 2:31influence and a sway and an impact on
59. 2:33the people that they don't have.
60. 2:36And they envy that.
61. 2:40But the chief priest stirred up the
62. 2:42crowd to ask him to release Barabus for
63. 2:45them.
64. 2:47Give us the murderer.
65. 2:50Give us the insurrectionist.
66. 2:53But take the son of God. Take the lamb.
67. 2:56We don't want him.
68. 3:00Answering again, Pilate said to them,
69. 3:02"Then what shall I do with him whom you
70. 3:05call the king of the Jews?"
71. 3:08They shouted back, "Crucify him!"
72. 3:15Because he threatens our authority. We
73. 3:18are envious of him.
74. 3:21He convicts us with the truth. So kill
75. 3:25him even though he's never hurt a person
76. 3:28in his life.
77. 3:30But Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil
78. 3:33has he done?"
79. 3:37But they shouted all the more, "Crucify
80. 3:40him!"
81. 3:43Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate
82. 3:48released Barabus for them.
83. 3:51And after having Jesus scourged,
84. 3:54he handed him over to be crucified.
85. 3:59Scourged means that they would give him
86. 4:0140 lashes with a whip made of strands of
87. 4:05leather with bits of glass and pottery
88. 4:08shards and bone tied into the leather
89. 4:12strands.
90. 4:14Nine strands. It was called the cat of
91. 4:16nine tails. And they would beat him
92. 4:19until it would wrap around his body and
93. 4:22rip flesh from those sharp shards of
94. 4:25pottery or glass or whatnot.
95. 4:28So that was the custom that he would
96. 4:30lash the man and then turn him over.
97. 4:35The soldiers took him away
98. 4:38into the palace that is the pritorium
99. 4:41and they called together the whole Roman
100. 4:44cohort,
101. 4:47the battalion literally an entire group
102. 4:50of soldiers,
103. 4:5220 plus soldiers gather around him.
104. 4:55They dress Jesus up in purple
105. 4:58and after twisting a crown of thorns,
106. 5:01they put it on him and they begin to
107. 5:04acclaim him. Hail, King of the Jews.
108. 5:11So, they're going to make a complete
109. 5:12joke out of him. Put a put a purple robe
110. 5:16on him to make a mockery of the idea
111. 5:19that he's a king. And let's give him a
112. 5:21crown, too. But make sure it's made of
113. 5:23thorns that smash down into his brow.
114. 5:28And then get the entire Roman battalion
115. 5:31around him.
116. 5:33Hail, King of the Jews. They kept
117. 5:35beating his head with a reed and
118. 5:38spitting on him and kneeling and bowing
119. 5:41before him.
120. 5:43After they had mocked him, they took the
121. 5:45purple robe off of him and put his own
122. 5:48garments on him, and they led him out to
123. 5:51crucify him.
124. 5:54They pressed into service a passer by
125. 5:57coming from the country, Simon ofSirene,
126. 6:00the father of Alexander and Rufus, to
127. 6:03bear his cross.
128. 6:07So Jesus is so weary from his beating
129. 6:10and scourging and mocking that he's not
130. 6:13able to carry his own cross which would
131. 6:16have been the custom.
132. 6:19So the writer of of the story here is
133. 6:22wanting us to know that that that's how
134. 6:25exhausted he was by this point. And they
135. 6:29press into service this man named Simon
136. 6:32ofSirene.Sirene
137. 6:34Sirene is a city in northern Africa in
138. 6:38Libya.
139. 6:40So this would have been a Jewish man
140. 6:44from the diaspora
141. 6:46who was visiting Jerusalem likely
142. 6:48because of the Passover.
143. 6:50And it says the father of Alexander and
144. 6:53Rufus
145. 6:55which means that likely Alexander and
146. 6:59Rufus were members of the church in the
147. 7:02time when Mark wrote this. So he wants
148. 7:05them to know and we know that in in
149. 7:07Romans in the final chapter of Romans
150. 7:10Paul says to greet Rufus or Rufus greets
151. 7:14you and there is an acknowledgement that
152. 7:16he is a faithful member of the church.
153. 7:19So there is there's some connection that
154. 7:22he's wanting to say that this guy who
155. 7:25was pressed into service, his family
156. 7:27ended up becoming part of the church.
157. 7:29That's likely what's being suggested
158. 7:31here.
159. 7:33Then they brought him Jesus to the place
160. 7:36Goltha,
161. 7:38which is translated place of a skull.
162. 7:42They tried to give him wine mixed with
163. 7:45myrr, but he did not take it. And they
164. 7:48crucified him and divided up his
165. 7:51garments among themselves, casting lots,
166. 7:54for them to decide what each man should
167. 7:57take.
168. 7:59It was the third hour when they
169. 8:01crucified him. The inscription of the
170. 8:04charge against him read, "The King of
171. 8:08the Jews."
172. 8:10They crucified two robbers with him, one
173. 8:13on his right and one on his left. And
174. 8:17the scripture was fulfilled which says,
175. 8:19"And he was numbered with the
176. 8:21transgressors."
177. 8:23Those passing by were hurling abuse at
178. 8:26him, wagging their heads and saying,
179. 8:29"Ha, you who are going to destroy the
180. 8:33temple and rebuild it in 3 days. Save
181. 8:36yourself and come down from the cross."
182. 8:40In the same way, the chief priests also
183. 8:42along with the scribes were mocking him
184. 8:45among themselves and saying, "He saved
185. 8:48others. He cannot save himself.
186. 8:53Let this Christ, the king of Israel, now
187. 8:56come down from the cross, so that we may
188. 8:59see and believe."
189. 9:02Those who were crucified with him were
190. 9:04also insulting him.
191. 9:07When the sixth hour came, darkness fell
192. 9:10over the whole land until the 9inth
193. 9:12hour. At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out
194. 9:16with a loud voice, "Eloy, Eloy, Lamak
195. 9:20Sabakani,"
196. 9:22which is translated, "My God, my God,
197. 9:26why have you forsaken me?"
198. 9:29He has to experience the agony of
199. 9:33separation because that's what judgment
200. 9:35is. And that's what he's bearing on our
201. 9:38behalf. Judgment is separation away from
202. 9:42the presence of the Lord.
203. 9:45So even though the Almighty, the divine
204. 9:48[clears throat] lived inside of him, as
205. 9:51he's dying, that divine spirit cannot
206. 9:54die and so it departs him. And when it
207. 9:57does, he cries out, "My God, my God."
208. 10:00Which literally means, "The God of me,
209. 10:02the God of me, why have you left me
210. 10:05behind?
211. 10:06When some of the bystanders heard it,
212. 10:08they began saying, "Behold, he is
213. 10:10calling for Elijah." Because Elijah
214. 10:13sounds like Elihoo sounds a little bit
215. 10:15like Eloy. Eloy.
216. 10:18Someone ran and filled a sponge with
217. 10:20sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave
218. 10:23him a drink, saying, "Let us see whether
219. 10:26Elijah will come to take him down."
220. 10:29And Jesus uttered a loud cry and
221. 10:32breathed his last.
222. 10:36And the veil of the temple was torn in
223. 10:40two from top to bottom.
224. 10:44This is the atonement. This is the
225. 10:47caparet.
226. 10:49This is the moment where the blood
227. 10:53sacrifice that was sprinkled
228. 10:56on the ark of covenant behind that veil,
229. 11:00now it's been shed. And so that veil is
230. 11:03no longer the place, the holy place.
231. 11:06That veil is torn.
232. 11:09It's over. That form of atonement is
233. 11:13done. God will never use it again. His
234. 11:16glory and his presence have departed
235. 11:18from there forever. That type and shadow
236. 11:21is over.
237. 11:23And Jesus is entering into the holy
238. 11:26place which is heaven itself.
239. 11:29And God is symbolizing that now he has
240. 11:33ripped away the barrier and we have
241. 11:36access by one spirit to one father
242. 11:40through the new and living way of his
243. 11:43blood.
244. 11:45and the veil of the temple was torn in
245. 11:47two from top to bottom. When the
246. 11:49centurion who was standing right in
247. 11:52front of him saw the way he breathed his
248. 11:54last, he said, "Truly, this man was the
249. 11:59son of God."
250. 12:02There were also some women looking on
251. 12:04from a distance, among whom were Mary
252. 12:06Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James
253. 12:09the less, and Joseph and Salem.
254. 12:13When he was in Galilee, they used to
255. 12:15follow him and minister to him. And
256. 12:18there were many other women who came
257. 12:20with him to Jerusalem.
258. 12:24When evening had already come, because
259. 12:26it was the preparation day, that is the
260. 12:28day before the Sabbath, Joseph of
261. 12:31Arythea,
262. 12:33came a prominent member of the council,
263. 12:36the Sanhedrin,
264. 12:38who himself was waiting for the kingdom
265. 12:40of God. and he gathered up courage and
266. 12:44went in before Pilate and asked for the
267. 12:47body of Jesus.
268. 12:50Pilate wondered if he was dead by
269. 12:52[music] this time and summoning the
270. 12:54centurion, he questioned him as to
271. 12:56whether he was already dead.
272. 13:00And ascertaining [music] this from the
273. 13:02centurion, he granted the body to
274. 13:05Joseph.
275. 13:07Joseph brought [music] a linen cloth,
276. 13:09took him down, wrapped him in the linen
277. 13:12[music] cloth, and laid him in a tomb,
278. 13:15which had been heuned out in the rock.
279. 13:18And he [music] rolled a stone against
280. 13:19the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene
281. 13:23and Mary, the mother of Joseph, were
282. 13:25looking on to see where he was laid.
283. 13:32There's a man who's part of the Jewish
284. 13:34Senate, [music] the Sanhedrin, the
285. 13:37council, and his name is Joseph of
286. 13:38Arythea.
287. 13:41And he doesn't like what they've done to
288. 13:42Jesus. He doesn't like what his own
289. 13:44people have done to Jesus. And so at
290. 13:47night, he wants to take away the body
291. 13:50and show him the respect of a dignified
292. 13:53burial.
293. 13:55And Mark says it's [music] because he
294. 13:57too hadn't given up on the dream of the
295. 14:00kingdom of God.
296. 14:02He doesn't believe Jesus is the Christ,
297. 14:05but he had hoped he might be like
298. 14:08Nicodemus.
299. 14:10And he puts Jesus in his own tomb to
300. 14:14show him the respect of a dignified
301. 14:15burial.
302. 14:17And Mark [music] wants us to know that
303. 14:19Pilate questions whether he's already
304. 14:21dead. And he asks the centurion to
305. 14:24confirm.
306. 14:26This is a detail that is important
307. 14:28because the gentile state authorities
308. 14:31who have no part in the religious
309. 14:33tension, they confirm that Jesus was
310. 14:36completely dead. And he takes him and he
311. 14:39puts him in the tomb.
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