1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Let us pray, and they were instant with loud voices 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 1: them and of the chief priests prevailed Luke twenty three 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: twenty three. With every breath I take to day, I 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: am in awe at the abuse you suffered on my behalf, Jesus, 6 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,319 Speaker 1: when I was knee deep in my sin and far 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: from you, you saw my face and you knew my name. 8 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: As the Nine tales whip rip through your flesh. I 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: am forever grateful that with each strip placed on your body, 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: it represented the sin that you would free me from. 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: I praise you because it was through your pain and 12 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: betrayal that I now live a life free from the 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: chains and bondage of Satan. When life begins to deal 14 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: me hard blows, let me look to you, Jesus as 15 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: the encouragement to my faith. Let me look to you, Jesus, 16 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: to remind me that my pain and troubles are only momentary, 17 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: and that they will pale in comparison to the glory 18 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: that awaits me. Thank you for standing trial so that 19 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: I can stand in my new life, free from Satan 20 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: and free from the sting of death. In Jesus's name. Amen. 21 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: Listening to these daily prayers strengthens your relationship with God. 22 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: Continue hearing from the Lord by listening to today's Bible 23 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: in a Year, brought to you by Bible in a 24 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: Year dot com. 25 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: Jesus on trial. In our last story, Jesus was taken 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 2: to the chief priests to be questioned. Jesus was beaten, 27 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: spat upon, yelled at, and denied by his closest follower, Peter, 28 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 2: handed over to Pilot. Jesus now stands on trial to 29 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: be killed. Pilot is to decide whether Jesus of Nazareth 30 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: should be put to death as inspired by the Gospels. 31 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 3: This is Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible 32 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 3: in a Year. In our last time together, we heard 33 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 3: how Jesus was beaten, cursed, and mocked before he appeared 34 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 3: before the Jewish Sanhedron. He was asked if he claimed 35 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: to be the Christ, the Messiah, and though he knew 36 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 3: his words would cost him, he did not walk away 37 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 3: from the truth. Jesus is in fact and claimed to 38 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 3: be the Savior, the Son of God, the world's Messiah, 39 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: the Jewish Messiah, and the Savior of the world. This 40 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 3: was the very thing that the Jewish leaders needed to 41 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 3: hand him over to the Romans for execution. This, in 42 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 3: their minds, was blasphemy that he claimed to be God. 43 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 3: We also learned that Peter denied the Lord three times, 44 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 3: just as Jesus had predicted. And we learned how Judas, 45 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 3: filled with shame and sin, made a tragic decision to 46 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: end his own life and to end up in hell 47 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 3: as the son of Perdition. Today we'll hear about the 48 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 3: trial of Jesus before Pilate, the Roman ruler, seems reluctant 49 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 3: to put Jesus to death, but the religious leaders and 50 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 3: the crowds cry out for his death while demanding a 51 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 3: murderer to be released. And while Jesus is clearly innocent, 52 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: there's now no stopping what is about to happen, that 53 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 3: our Lord would be condemned to dial across a brutal, 54 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 3: vicious death and excruciating death for the sins of the world. 55 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 3: Let's listen now to the reading of the Word of God. 56 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: Jesus was placed before ponscious Pilot with an angry mob 57 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: behind him. The Jewish officials had riled up the crowds 58 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: to accuse Jesus and demand his death. Jesus stood before Pilot, 59 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: looking into the crowd. Some of the same crowd that 60 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 2: at once shouted Hosanna in the highest to the son 61 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: of David, was now calling for the ending of his life. Pilot, 62 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: irked by the crowd, asked, what charges do you bring 63 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 2: against this man? In visceral anger? They replied, he is 64 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: a criminal worthy of death. He claims to be King 65 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: of the Jews and the promised savior. Pilot took Jesus 66 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 2: back into the palace, away from the mob to question him. 67 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: So is it as they say, he said, underneath Pilot's 68 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: regal and mocking tone, with genuine curiosity. Who truly is 69 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: this man? 70 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: He thought? 71 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: Are you king of the Jews? 72 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: He asked? 73 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: Did you say this because you were curious or because 74 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 2: somebody told you? Jesus replied, am I at you? Pilot 75 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 2: answered you people have your own nation, priests, and way 76 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: of doing things. Yet they brought you here to me 77 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: to have you killed. What did you do to make 78 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: them so angry? Jesus looked at Pilot the same way 79 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: he looked at many people, with an intensity intermingled with 80 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: great compassion and love. My kingdom is not of this world, 81 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 2: He said. If my kingdom were of this world, my 82 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: servants would be fighting in the streets on my behalf 83 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: rather than cry out for my death. But my kingdom 84 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 2: is not of this world, So you are a king, 85 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: Pilot asked again, this time with more genuine intrigue in 86 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 2: his voice. Jesus answered, again, you say that I am 87 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: a king for this purpose. I was born to testify 88 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 2: to the truth those who were the truth. Hear me too. Pilot, 89 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: confused yet deeply engaged, asked Jesus another question, what is truth? 90 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: Yet this was a question he was actually asking himself. 91 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 2: After this, he went back out to the crowd of 92 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: Jews and said to them, I find no charges against 93 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 2: this man. Not satisfied until they saw the streets painted 94 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: red with Jesus' blood, the crowd continued in their uproar. 95 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,799 Speaker 2: Pilots sent Jesus to Herod, the governor of the land, 96 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 2: to help judge him. Herod, entertained by the idea of Jesus, 97 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: asked him to do tricks for him. Herod demanded signs 98 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: as proof of Jesus's deity. Jesus remained silent in solidarity 99 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 2: towards what was about to take place. Herod and his 100 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: soldiers mocked Jesus, dressing him up like a king. Pilot 101 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 2: lobbied for Jesus's innocence, yet the outc his murder was 102 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 2: too great to simply ignore. Pilot then brought forth a 103 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 2: choice before the people. During the Passover festival, the governor 104 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 2: was supposed to release a prisoner that was chosen by 105 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: the people. He figured this was the best chance to 106 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 2: release Jesus. He took Jesus, who was bruised from Herod's teasing, 107 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 2: and brought him in front of the people. He also 108 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: brought forth a man named Barrabas, a convicted terrorist and murderer. 109 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: Pilot then gave the crowd a choice save the life 110 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 2: of Jesus or Barrabis. Swiftly, as if the kindness and 111 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: miracles of Jesus were wiped from their memory, they chose Barrabis. 112 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 2: He was the first person. Jesus took the place of Barabbas, 113 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 2: was released, and a call for death wailed from the audience. Pilot, 114 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 2: knowing he could not convince the crowd of Jesus's innocence, 115 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 2: poured water and washed his hands clean, refusing to be 116 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: responsible for them. Jesus's death, the crowd, possessed by a 117 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: similar hatred that once gripped the heart of Cain in 118 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 2: ancient times, sought to spill the blood of the righteous. 119 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: Jesus was taken into the courtyard to be beaten, stripped, 120 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 2: and tied to a pillar stained from the dried blood 121 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: of past criminals. Jesus knelt before the crowd. A man 122 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,239 Speaker 2: slowly approached the naked and vulnerable Jesus with a cord 123 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 2: of nine tails in his right hand, a whip with 124 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: nine leather chords attached with shards of glass and bone. 125 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 2: The first blow was a direct hit, sending pain up 126 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 2: Jesus's spine into his head, the second ripping his flesh 127 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 2: open and exposed, the third tearing the muscle beneath, the 128 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:54,359 Speaker 2: fourth going down all the way to bone whip. Jesus's 129 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 2: flood was sprayed against the courtyard walls, drenched in his 130 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 2: own blood. Jesus knelt silently. The ancient words of Isaiah 131 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: echoed in his mind with a silent reminder of what 132 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 2: he was here to do. He was oppressed and beaten, 133 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: yet he did not open his mouth. He was led 134 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep 135 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 2: before its shearers, he was silent and did not open 136 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: his mouth. After the whipping, Jesus was taken back with 137 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 2: the soldiers, where they dressed him in a royal robe 138 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,839 Speaker 2: and adorned him with a crown of thorns. They teased him, 139 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 2: taking a reed and hammering the thorns into his temple. 140 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 2: They bowed to him in mockery and spat in his face. 141 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 2: Yet Jesus remained silent. The one who spoke the cosmos 142 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 2: into existence and breathed life into mankind remained silent. Then 143 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: Pilot took Jesus back before the crowds. Have you had enough, 144 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 2: he yelled, I find no more guilt in him. Behold 145 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 2: this man. When the crowd saw him again, they began 146 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 2: yelling back, crucify him, crucify him, crucify him. Pilot, beginning 147 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 2: to grow sick of this, yelled back, take him yourselves 148 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 2: and crucify him. I find no guilt in him. The 149 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: Jews answered back to him and said, by our law 150 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 2: he should be killed. He has called himself God. Pilot 151 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: took Jesus again away from the crowds. Desperately, Pilot asked, 152 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: where are you from? Jesus was silent. Why aren't you speaking? 153 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: Don't you know that I hold the power to make 154 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 2: you live or die? Jesus, peering through the crowd of 155 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 2: thorns still placed on his head, and said, you have 156 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: no authority over me. Whoever delivers me to you is 157 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 2: in greater sin. Pilot could hear the yells of the 158 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: crowd outside. If you release him, you are no friend 159 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 2: of Caesar's. Afraid of these words and that rumors of 160 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 2: disloyalty to Caesar would spread, Pilot took Jesus before the 161 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 2: people again. Then, after his torn flesh had begun healing 162 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 2: and attaching to the fabric, they tore off the robe 163 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 2: and sent him back to the crowds to be crucified. 164 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 3: As we begin today's scripture, Pilot is asking the crowds 165 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: why they've brought Jesus before him. He had to have 166 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 3: a good reason to send the lord to his death. 167 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 3: The angry crowd yelled that Jesus claimed to be a 168 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 3: king and savior of the Jews, but they also made 169 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 3: false accusations, saying Jesus told them not to pay tribute 170 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 3: to Caesar, just as Satan the deceiver always does in 171 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 3: twisting the truth. The crowds are now twisting the truth 172 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 3: and misrepresenting what the Lord had said. A claim to 173 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 3: be king over Caesar would have been a threat against 174 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 3: the Roman Empire, punishable by death. Pilot was not convinced 175 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 3: that Jesus was worthy of being put to death, so 176 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: he asked Jesus if he was really the king. Jesus 177 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 3: asked Pilot if this was his own ideas, or if 178 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 3: others had put him up to it. Pilot pressed further 179 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 3: because he wasn't a Jew, and he didn't know what 180 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 3: Jesus could possibly have done to anger these people. And 181 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 3: patient and as loving as ever, Jesus replied by explaining 182 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 3: the nature of the Kingdom of God. The kingdom of 183 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 3: Jesus was not a kingdom that would overthrow the earthly 184 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 3: rule of Rome. It was a different kind of kingdom, 185 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 3: not of this world. He was the kingdom of eternal life, 186 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 3: the Kingdom of God. He was telling Pilot that his 187 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 3: authority did not come from the world and the governments 188 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 3: of this world, but in the authority of God himself. 189 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 3: His truthfulness and gentleness and boldness certainly intrigued even confused Pilot. 190 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 3: Jesus continued and said it was for this reason that 191 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,599 Speaker 3: he came to the world. His purpose was to testify 192 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: to the truth. Pilot responds with a question that many 193 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 3: are still asking today, what is truth? We do not 194 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 3: know if Pilot was genuine in his search for truth, 195 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 3: or if he also liked the crowd was simply mocking Jesus. 196 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 3: But we do know that he saw no fault in 197 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 3: Christ and told the crowds there was nothing for which 198 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 3: he could charge or crucify this man. This is an 199 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 3: important point to remember. Jesus had done nothing wrong. He 200 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 3: was sinless, he had never broken God's law or man's law. 201 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 3: He was completely innocent as he stood before the crowd, 202 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 3: and yet his innocence was of no consequence to the people, 203 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 3: who would not relent until he was dead. So Pilot, 204 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 3: hoping to get out of the situation, sent him to Herod, 205 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 3: the Jewish governor of Galilee. Herod showed no interest in 206 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 3: discerning the truth. He just wanted to see Jesus performed 207 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 3: signs and wonders that he had been told about. Jesus 208 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 3: would not perform for him, of course, so Herod mocked 209 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 3: Jesus and then had him dressed up like a king 210 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 3: and send him back to Pilot. Pilots still did not 211 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 3: see a reason to sentence Jesus to death and hoped 212 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: to release him by offering a pardon, as was customary 213 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: to the Roman governor to do during the passover. So 214 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 3: he brought two men before the crowds. One was Jesus, 215 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 3: the innocent man with no faults. The other was a 216 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: man named Barabbas, a criminal, an insurrectionist, and a murderer. 217 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 3: He gave the crowds the choice to release one of 218 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 3: the men. Do you choose Jesus or do you choose Barabbas, 219 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 3: Pilot said, and the crowd made their choice, give us Barabbas. 220 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 3: In some ways, Barabbas, the insurrectionists who fought against Rome 221 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 3: represent what they really wanted, Jesus to be one who 222 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 3: would set them free from oppression. What they didn't understand 223 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 3: is that the death to which Jesus would die the 224 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 3: true Messiah, would free them from a much greater grip, 225 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 3: the grip of sin and death. We then heard how 226 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 3: our Lord endured beatings and lashings, and his body is 227 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 3: torn apart violently and viciously, without mercy. The physical pain, 228 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 3: of course, is excruciating, Yet Jesus endures it silently, fulfilling 229 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 3: the prophecy of Isaiah that said the Messiah would stand 230 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 3: like a lamb led to the slaughter, not opening his mouth. 231 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 3: Pilot tries one more time to spare the life of Jesus, 232 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 3: he says in Luke twenty three, Verses twenty two and 233 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 3: twenty three. A third time he said to them, why 234 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 3: what evil has he done? I have found in him 235 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 3: no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and then 236 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 3: release him. But they were urgent, demanding with loud Christ 237 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 3: that he should be crucified, and their voices prevailed. Finally, 238 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 3: Pilot gave into the will of the people and sentenced 239 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 3: Jesus to death, although he knew that the one who 240 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 3: stood before him was innocent. Jesus endured all of this, 241 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 3: including the cross, because of God's unending and measurable love 242 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: for us. This was the cup of suffering and pain 243 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 3: that he cried out and asked the Father to take 244 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 3: from him. And yet he submitted himself to the will 245 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 3: of God, the perfect will, and the lamb of God 246 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 3: is slain. The savior of the world is given as 247 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 3: sacrifice so that we could have a relationship with God. 248 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: You could have this relationship with God through Jesus Christ 249 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 3: by believing in him that he died for you and 250 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 3: rose again so that you could have eternal life. Let's 251 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 3: pray together, Lord, we thank you for your love for us. 252 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 3: Thank you for Jesus who gave your life on the 253 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 3: Lord for us that we might be saved and give 254 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 3: an eternal life. Thank you for what you did for 255 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 3: us and dying that we might live. And we pray 256 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 3: this in your saving name. Amen. 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