In Gethsemane, which means an olive press, Jesus was pressed for the oil of His Spirit. But as the body without the spirit is dead (Jam 2:26), to give up His Spirit meant giving up His life. In life He had always sought to do the will of His Father, trusting His great love to…
As Jesus was nailed to the cross, the Scriptures describe how He was mocked and scorned not only by the crowds who had been incited by the religious leaders and followed Him from the Praetorium (where He was condemned) to Golgotha, but also by the soldiers who crucified Him, as well as by the two…
As Jesus was dying upon the cross, already racked with pain from the tortures of crucifixion, He also suffered the agonizing pains of scorn and humiliation, not only from His religious enemies and the soldiers, but even from the criminals among whom He was numbered. In spite of the innumerable good things He had done…
As Jesus was led away to execution a crowd followed Him to the cross, not as disciples embracing their own cross of dying to their own self-will, but as enemies gloating to see His light extinguished, not knowing that from His broken vessel an unimaginably greater light would shine forth to expose their darkness. Note…
After finally obtaining from Pilate their desire against Jesus, the religious leaders and those who had joined with them to prosecute Him were not yet satisfied with the punishments already inflicted and His sentence of death, but followed Him to Golgotha to see the sentence fulfilled and get in the last licks of their justice.…
As Jesus was led to Golgotha for crucifixion a large crowd followed, full of His enemies who from hatred wanted to see Him dead; cf. 1Jo 3:15. They hated His light, and wanted to snuff out that which shone on their darkness, but could not see the much greater light that His broken vessel would…
On Thursday morning of Passion week, not long before noon, Jesus was led to Golgotha, the Skull, and crucified between two criminals, accounted as one of them by the religious leaders, who, from the sin in their hearts, were deceived to call evil good, and good evil. The inscription attached to the cross above His…
Having carried out their orders to crucify Jesus, the quaternion of soldiers assigned to the task kept watch over Him as He died lest He somehow escape, perhaps through His disciples who might try to rescue Him. But He freely laid down His life, else their whole legion could not have taken it from Him. …
On Thursday morning of Passion week, during “the third hour” that marked the second half of the morning (Mar 15:25, cf. Mat 20:3,5), not long before noon that marked the beginning of the sixth hour (Joh 19:14), Jesus was led to Golgotha, “The Skull”, stripped naked of His clothes that were divided as booty between…
Father Forgive Them. Who's "Them"? Before noon on Thursday morning of Passion Week Jesus had been sentenced to death, first by the Sanhedrin of the Jews on charges trumped up by Annas and Caiaphas who had interrogated Him during the night to determine what they could use to have Him put to death, and then…