1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine hundred and 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: sixty one. Today, The Bible Study Podcast continues the study 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: of the Gospel of Luke with Luke's account of the Crucifixion. 4 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. We're going to jump 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: into Good Friday today with Luke's account of the Crucifixion, 6 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: and then we'll see where we go from there. But 7 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: first a word from this sponsor. The gospel writer Luke 8 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: gives his account of the Crucifixion here in chapter twenty three, 9 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: starting in verse twenty six. As the soldiers led him away, 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: they seized Simon from Syrene, who is on his way 11 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: in from the country, and put the cross on him 12 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large number 13 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed 14 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: for him. Jesus turn and said to them, daughters of Jerusalem, 15 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: your children. For the time will come when you say, 17 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore, 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: and the breasts that never nursed. Then they will say, 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: to the mountains fall on us, and to the hills 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: cover us, for if the people do these things when 21 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry. 22 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: So what Luke's account doesn't cover is the torture that 23 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: was done by the Roman guards, which is covered in 24 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: some of the other accounts, where they put the crown 25 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: of thorn on his heads, and they have him and 26 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: Pilot has him scourged and brought back out. And so 27 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: normally the criminal will carry the cross by themselves to 28 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: the place of execution, to Golgatha, the place of the skull. 29 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: But in Jesus' case, he was probably already pretty weak 30 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: from what had happened so far, not just being up 31 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: all night, but the torture that the other gospels give 32 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: us a hint of. At this point, and when we 33 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: say take the cross, my understanding is that the vertical 34 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: piece tended to stay in Golgatha, And so you all 35 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: the pictures you see of Jesus carrying the cross itself 36 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: through town are probably not historically accurate, but that you 37 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: would carry the cross peace. But that alone is a 38 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: heavy piece of wood. And so they get someone else, 39 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: and it is probably significant that they know the name 40 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: of the person. One gets the idea that this is 41 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: a name that Luke is using because it might be 42 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: known to his readers. I suspect that Simon is someone 43 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: who becomes a Christian, or may even have this point 44 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: been a follower of Jesus. Don't know that for sure, 45 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: but I'm not the only one who has speculated about 46 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: those things. Continuing on, two other men and both criminals 47 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 1: were led out with him to be executed. When they 48 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him 49 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: there along with the criminals, one on his right and 50 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 1: the other on his left. Jesus said, Father, forgive them, 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: for they do not know what they are doing, and 52 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: they've divided up his clothes by casting lots. So they 53 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: get to Golgatha. Now this would be right now. The 54 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: site in Jerusalem is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 55 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,559 Speaker 1: which is understood to be both the place of Golgatha 56 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: as well as the place of the tomb. Of course, 57 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: it doesn't look like that these days, because they've built 58 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: a church around the whole thing. But this would have 59 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: been outside of the old walls. And so they go 60 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: outside of the city walls, close to one of the 61 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: gates of the city. The idea is that you crucify 62 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: people so that as people are coming into the city 63 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: they see these crucified people and know that this is 64 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: an area where they are very tough on crime. Let's 65 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: say the idea is that this person did something bad 66 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: and therefore you're going to know that you shouldn't do that. 67 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: And that's significant because above Jesus, they're going to put 68 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 1: a sign, and usually that sign should be what is 69 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: the crime that this person is accused of, because you 70 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: want to go up there and say, as I'm coming 71 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: into the city, oh, this person is a thief, I'm 72 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: not going to be a thief. This person led a rebellion. 73 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to lead a rebellion. And we know 74 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: a lot about crucifixion because this is not the only 75 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: time it happened. In fact, during the slave revolt of Spartacus, 76 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: if you've ever seen that old Kirk Douglas movie, that 77 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: was a real thing that happened. They crucified between Rome 78 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: and one of the next towns, over a thousand different people, 79 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: so that as you were walking between these cities, just 80 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: after body, they are nailed to a cross. Again as 81 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: a reminder to other people, don't cross Rome. This is 82 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: what they do now. In this case, Jesus, it says, 83 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: was crucified with two thieves. Are two criminals in this version, 84 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: one on his left and one on his right. And Jesus' words. 85 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: We pay a lot of attention to the words that 86 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: Jesus says from the cross, Father, forgive them, for they 87 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: don't know what they are doing now. The reason, one 88 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: of the reasons why we pay attention to the words 89 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: of Jesus is easier to understand if you understand crucifixion. 90 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: So crucifixion, I said last week, was intended to be torture. 91 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: It was intended to take a while, and to be very, 92 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,239 Speaker 1: very painful. They would usually tie or nail your hands, 93 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: and then probably nail your feet, one on top of 94 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: the other to the vertical portion, and you would slump 95 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: down on your hands. And the problem is that in 96 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: that place you couldn't breathe, and so to catch a 97 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: breath you would have to push yourself up on the 98 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: nails in your feet to be able to breathe. And 99 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: you can imagine, well, I don't know if you can imagine. 100 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if I can imagine how painful that 101 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: would be. So Jesus, we understand, pushes himself up on 102 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 1: the nails in his feet, and with that breath he takes, 103 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: he offers forgiveness. As you can see why we say 104 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: those words that Jesus is speaking on the cross, there's 105 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: not a lot of them, it's not the Sermon on 106 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: the Mount, but they are significant because it would be 107 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: very hard for Jesus to say anything, and so he's 108 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: using this precious breath, this hard earned, painful breath, to 109 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: offer forgiveness. Forgive them, Father. They don't know what they're doing. 110 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: It says they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 111 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: If you read Matthew's version, Matthew is going to pay 112 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: attention to how a lot of these things have to 113 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: do with the prophecies that were made about Messiah in 114 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: the Old Testament. Because Matthew is writing his version for 115 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: the Jews who know the Old Testament, while Luke is 116 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: writing for the Greeks and those of us who are gentiles. 117 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: And so Luke doesn't get into why this is significant 118 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: because his audience wouldn't know. The people stood watching, and 119 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: the rulers even sneered at him. They said he saved 120 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: others let him save himself if he is God's Messiah, 121 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: the chosen one. The soldiers also came up and mocked him. 122 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: They offered him wine vinegar and said, if you are 123 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: the king of the Jews, save yourself. There was a 124 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: written notice above him which read, this is the king 125 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: of the Jews. Now remember I said that notice should 126 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: say what your crime is, and that's the crime that 127 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: they put on there. And the other gospels point out 128 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: that the Jewish leaders have a hard time with that sign, 129 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: and they say it should say he said he was 130 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: the king of the Jews. And Pilot says, I have 131 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: written what I have written, And this is Pilot's last 132 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: chance to get a dig at the Jewish leaders. Here 133 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: here is your king. But the soldiers are mocking him, 134 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: The leaders are mocking him. Everybody seems to be mocking 135 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: him and saying, clearly, if this is the son of God, 136 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: if this worths the son of God, he wouldn't let 137 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: this happen. This is what Paul says when he talks 138 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: about we preach Christ crucified a stumbling block for the 139 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: Jews and folly for the gentiles. How is it that 140 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: Jesus could be the son of God and yet here 141 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: he is dying on a cross. Now, of course, our 142 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: understanding is is that's exactly the point that he's dying 143 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: there in our place, so that we don't have to 144 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: He's dying a death for all, a sacrificial lamb for sin, 145 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: so that we don't have to pay the price for 146 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: our sin. But you can understand, while the people standing 147 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: there watching this happen are thinking, clearly, this guy was 148 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: a fake. Clearly this guy isn't the son of God. 149 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: Otherwise this couldn't be happening. It's understandable. It's wrong, but 150 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 1: it's understandable. But one of the criminals who hung there 151 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: hurled insults at him, aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself 152 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: and us? But the other criminal rebuked him, don't you 153 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: fear God? He said, since you were under the same sentence. 154 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: We are punished justly, for we are getting what our 155 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 1: needs deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then 156 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: he said, Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. 157 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: Jesus answered him, truly, I tell you today you will 158 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 1: be with me in Paradise. So Jesus, as he is 159 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: there with a sign that says King of the Jews, 160 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: only one person is recorded to believe him, and that 161 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: is the other person who is pushing up on his 162 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: feet with the nail in them to silence the other criminal, 163 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: and saying, we are getting what we deserve. Jesus, remember me, 164 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: remember me when you come into your kingdom. Those words 165 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: were equally difficult for him to say, as it was 166 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: for Jesus to say today, you will be with me 167 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: in Paradise. The Death of Jesus. It was now about noon, 168 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: and darkness came over the whole land until three in 169 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining, and the curtain 170 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out 171 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: with a loud voice, Father, into your hands, I commit 172 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: my spirit. When he had said this, he breathed his last. 173 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, 174 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: surely this was a righteous man. When all the people 175 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: who had gathered to witness this site saw what took place, 176 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: they beat their breasts and went away. But all those 177 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: who knew him, including the women who had followed him 178 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things. So 179 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: Jesus dies, his last words being Father, into your hands, 180 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: I commit my spirit. But there are other things that 181 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: are going on portents, as it were in the heavens. 182 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: Darkness is coming over the land as Jesus is hanging 183 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: there on the cross for three hours. Darkness is coming 184 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: over the land, which is got to be a little 185 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: scary if you're there and you were just mocking this 186 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: guy and saying you are clearly not the son of God. 187 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: And yet something weird is going on right now. And 188 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: then as Jesus dies, Luke mentions that the temple curtain 189 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: is torn into And that seems like such a weird 190 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: thing to talk about because we're not at the temple, 191 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: we're outside the city. Why is he talking about drapery? 192 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: But that temple curtain is the curtain that separates the 193 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: holiest of holies in the temple, where the understanding is 194 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: the presence of God. God dwells from the people, and 195 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: only the high priest could come into the holiest of holies, 196 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: and then only once a year, covered by the blood 197 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: of the sacrificial bull, because we are unclean and we 198 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: could not be in the presence of God with our 199 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: sin or we would die. And so the high priest 200 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: was covered with this blood of the sacrifice. But now 201 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: Jesus has become that sacrifice, the perfect sacrifice that all 202 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: those other lambs and all those other bulls were just 203 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: a pretaste of, as it were. And so because Jesus 204 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: has died, that separation between us and God is torn asunder. 205 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: That we can now come, as Paul will say boldly, 206 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: before the throne of Grace. And so that's why Luke 207 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: mentions this. It is significant. And then it's interesting that 208 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 1: as they see Jesus die, as the sky has been 209 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: dark for three hours before he dies, the centurion, who 210 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 1: was probably one of those who is mocking him earlier, says, 211 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: surely this was a righteous man. And all the other 212 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: people are walking away beating their breasts. That is a 213 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: sign of regret, a sign that something they're not rejoicing, 214 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: that this Jesus has died. And it says all the 215 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: people gathered, well, these are the people who were mocking 216 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: him earlier, except for the at a distance, which is 217 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: some of his followers, including the women who followed him, 218 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: who are watching these things, who are watching the crucifixion. 219 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: Probably our understanding is from the Gospel of John, including 220 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: Mary his mother. The burial of Jesus. Now there was 221 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: a man named Joseph, a member of the council, a 222 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: good and upright man who had not consented to their 223 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, 224 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: and he himself was waiting for the Kingdom of God. 225 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: Going to Pilot, he asked for Jesus' body. Then he 226 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth, and placed 227 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in 228 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: which no one had yet been laid. It was preparation 229 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: day and the Sabbath was about to begin. The women 230 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and 231 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 232 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But 233 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: they rested on the sabbath in obedience to the commandment. 234 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: So it doesn't say in Luke's account, but this is 235 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: late on Thursday evening, getting close to that point at 236 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: which it will become Friday. So in the Jewish understanding, 237 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: sabbath begins when it gets dark eyes on Friday night. Technically, 238 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: within the law, it's when it's so dark you can't 239 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: tell a black thread from a white thread. So when 240 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: it gets dark, that's the beginning of Sabbath, and so 241 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: there is preparation done in a hurry here to take 242 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: Jesus's body down and to put it in a tomb 243 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: before the Sabbath starts, and the women are getting ready 244 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: to anoint the body, but they can't do it on Saturday, 245 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath day, and so they have to wait 246 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: till Sunday, and so they get back to wherever they're 247 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: staying start preparing spices to come and annoy Jesus. But 248 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: they run out of time on Friday night, and so 249 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: they have to wait for one day, and then they 250 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: will come back on Sunday morning when the Sabbath is over, 251 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: to anoint his body and to say goodbye. At least 252 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: that was their plan. Now we don't know a lot 253 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: else about Joseph of Arimathea. Obviously, there are all sorts of 254 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: legends about him catching the blood of Jesus in a cup, 255 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: which is the holy grail. That is non biblical. It 256 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: is unlikely that that happened that would get in the 257 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: way of the execution. And there were a bunch of 258 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,719 Speaker 1: soldiers standing there at the foot of the cross as 259 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: part of the lore of the Holy Grail, and again 260 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: probably no truth to it at all. But what we 261 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: do know about him, he's a good man. He's a 262 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: good and upright man, and he dissented with the decision 263 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: of the action. So he was one of those members 264 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: of the Sanhedrin who voted against condemning Jesus, but he 265 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: was overruled. Now think of the courage that it would 266 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: take to vote against that decision. People are so mad, 267 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,959 Speaker 1: they want to kill this guy, and you're standing up 268 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: for him. But also think of the courage that would 269 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: take to be associated. Remember, Peter has already fled and 270 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: denied him three times, but even in what looks like 271 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: his defeat and his death on a cross, Joseph is 272 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: willing to associate himself with Jesus and take him into 273 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 1: what is probably Joseph's tomb that has been prepared for 274 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: him for when he dies, and he gives this tomb, well, 275 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: it turns out he only rents this tom to Jesus 276 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: because Jesus isn't going to stay there. 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