(refer to Luke 23:44)
MATTHEW 27:45-50
THE DEATH OF JESUS
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over the whole land.
46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”

• Matthew 6:9 – 9 “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven,[1]
• Matthew 11:25-27 - 25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,[2]
• 26 Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure. 27 All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.[3]
• Matthew 26:39 –
• Matthew 26:42 –
• Matthew 26:44 -

47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah.”

• Romans said this… not the Jews.
• Edersheim: “We can scarcely doubt, that these were the soldiers who stood by the Cross. They were not necessarily Romans; on the contrary, as we have seen, these Legions were generally recruited from Provincials. On the other hand, no Jew would have mistaken Eli for Elijah, not yet misinterpreted a quotation of Psalm 22:1 as a call for that prophet. And it must be remembered, that the words were not whispered, but cried with a loud voice.” (Book V; p. 607)

(refer to John 19:28)
48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and offered him a drink.
(refer to John 19:30)
49 But the rest said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
50 But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.[4]
 
MARK 15:33-37
33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
35 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “See, he’s calling for Elijah.”
36 Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a stick, offered him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down.”
37 Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last.[5]
 
LUKE 23:44-46
THE DEATH OF JESUS
44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three, 45 because the sun’s light failed.

• It was a heaven-sent darkness that lasted for three hours.
• It was as though all of creation was sympathizing with the Creator.
• There were three days of darkness in Egypt before Passover (Ex. 10:21–23); and there were three hours of darkness before the Lamb of God died for the sins of the world.[6]

(refer to Matthew 27:46)
The curtain of the sanctuary was split down the middle. 46 And Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Saying this, he breathed his last. [7]

• Did anyone take Jesus’ life or did He offer it freely?
• John 10:18 - No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.” [8]

(refer to John 19:30)
 
JOHN 19:28-30
THE FINISHED WORK OF JESUS
28 After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now finished that the Scripture might be fulfilled,

• 2 Corinthians 5:21 - He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.[9]
• Every person would become righteous as He was righteous.
• That’s why He died… for our benefit.
• He gave His life so that we may have life.
• “after this” - Jesus has now been resurrected spiritually.

he said, “I’m thirsty.”

• Sin creates a real thirst.
• Jesus and the woman at the well… “You will never thirst again.”
• Luke 16:24 - 24 ‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’ [10]
• The world is thirsty… The thirst never leaves.
• We call this a vacuum… a hole… a desire.
• When you figure out your identity in Christ… the things of this world don’t matter to you.
• When you learn to live your life by another source you quit seeking the things of this world.
• Your thirst is quenched.
• Eventually people will seek you out and ask you how you never thirst.

(refer to Matthew 27:48)
29 A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it up to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.”

• What is finished?

(refer to Luke 23:46)
Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.[11]

• He gave it up
• Where did He go while His body was in the tomb?
• Sheoul/Hades = underworld
• 1 Peter 3:18-19 - For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, 19 in which he also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison 20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared.[12]
• What happened on the cross that relates to us?
• Ephesians 2:3 - We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.[13]
• It was not our specific sins that condemns us… it was our nature… our sinful nature.
• My nature died through the body of Christ… not His blood.
• Old Testament believers’ sins were removed at the cross.
• They were previously “atoned” – covered.
• The blood forgives sin. How many sins?
• Past… present… future.
• Hebrews 9:15 - Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.[14]
• The Law is going to live forever… So I had to die to the Law through the avenue of a new covenant.

Galatians 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.[15]

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 6:9). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 11:25). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 11:25–27). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 27:45–50). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mk 15:33–37). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 103). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
[7] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 23:44–46). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[8] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 10:18). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[9] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (2 Co 5:21). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[10] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 16:24). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[11] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 19:28–30). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[12] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Pe 3:18–20). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[13] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Eph 2:3). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[14] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Heb 9:15). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[15] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ga 2:20). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

Matthew 27:25 (review)
25 All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

• In reference to Roman General Titus destroying Jerusalem in 70 AD.

 
Begin at Luke 23:27
 
MATTHEW 27:34-44
34 they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.

• It was to deaden the pain and make prisoner easier to deal with.
• Jesus was going to take on the full force of the pain.

(Refer Mark 15:23)
35 After crucifying him, they divided his clothes by casting lots. 36 Then they sat down and were guarding him there. 37 Above his head they put up the charge against him in writing: This Is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
38 Then two criminals were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.
39 Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

• Bullying… taunting.

41 In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him and said, 42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. (that was a sarcastic lie) 43 He trusts in God; let God rescue him now—if he takes pleasure in him! For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
(Refer Luke 23:36)
44 In the same way even the criminals who were crucified with him taunted him.[1]
 
MARK 15:23-32
23 They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

• Prophesy in Psalm 69:21 fulfilled.
• Psalm 69:21 - Instead, they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [2]
• Now we get to the first of 3 hours on the cross.

24 Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get. 25 Now it was nine in the morning (3rd hour – Jewish time which started at 6AM) when they crucified him.

• Same time as the Chagigah Sacrifice

(Refer to Luke 23:33)
26 The inscription of the charge written against him was: The King of the Jews. 27 They crucified two criminals with him, one on his right and one on his left.
29 Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 30 save yourself by coming down from the cross!” 31 In the same way, the chief priests with the scribes were mocking him among themselves and saying, “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! 32 Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.[3]
 
LUKE 23:27-43
27 A large crowd of people followed him, including women who were mourning and lamenting him.

• Luke 19:41 - As he approached and saw the city, he wept for it[4]

28 But turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children. 29 Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the women without children, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ 31 For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

• Jesus says “weep for yourselves.”
• Josephus in relation to 70 AD (War Vi, 4)
• “… She slew her son, and then roasted him, and eat the one half of him, and kept the other half by her concealed. Upon this the seditious came in presently, and smelling the horrid scent of this food, they threatened her that they would cut her throat immediately if she did not show them what food she had gotten ready. She replied that she had saved a very fine portion of it for them, and withal uncovered what was left of her son. Hereupon they were seized with a horror and amazement of mind, and stood astonished at the sight, when she said to them, “This is mine own son, and what hath been done was mine own doing! Come, eat of this food; for I have eaten of it myself! Do not you pretend to be more tender than a woman, or more compassionate than a mother; but if you be so scrupulous, and do abominate this my sacrifice, as I have eaten the one half, let the rest be reserved for me also.” After which those men went out trembling, being never so much affrighted at anything as they were at this, and with some difficulty they left the rest of that meat to the mother. Upon which the whole city was full of this horrid action immediately; and whole everybody laid this miserable case before their own eyes, they trembled, as if this unheard of action had been done my themselves.”
  
  

CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO CRIMINALS
32 Two others—criminals—were also led away to be executed with him.
(Refer to Matthew 27:34)
33 When they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided his clothes and cast lots.

• “They” – Acts 3:17 – “And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.”[5]
• Not Annas, Caiaphas & Pilate
• There is a difference between ignorance and blatant disobedience.
• “Do works for God” – that is what they were taught and all they know.
• “Do works for God” – they continue to teach error because they won’t change their mind or they are building an institution.
• I literally had to leave my position to be able to teach freely what I had come to understand.
• It didn’t make me better… just more free.
• I won’t go back.
• I still have areas where I am ignorant.

(Refer to John 19:23)
35 The people stood watching, and even the leaders were scoffing: “He saved others; let him save himself if this is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One!”
36 The soldiers also mocked him. They came offering him sour wine 37 and said, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
38 An inscription was above him: This Is the King of the Jews.

• 4 different groups of people harassed and mocked Jesus.

39 Then one of the criminals hanging there began to yell insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
40 But the other answered, rebuking him: “Don’t you even fear God, since you are undergoing the same punishment? 41 We are punished justly, because we’re getting back what we deserve for the things we did, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
43 And he said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”[6]

• Sheoul – Abraham’s Bosom – Hell

(refer to John 19:25)
 
JOHN 19:18-27
18 There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. 19 Pilate also had a sign made and put on the cross. It said: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

• The cause of guilt was always placed above the prisoner.
• Pilate is adding insult to injury.
• Pilate was naming Jesus the King of the Jews.
• The Jews didn’t like this at all.

(Refer to Matthew 27:39)
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says: They divided my clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing.
(Psalm 22:18)
This is what the soldiers did.
(Refer to John 19:19)
 
JESUS’S PROVISION FOR HIS MOTHER
25 Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

• Why was Mary there?
• Luke 2:34-35 - 34 Then Simeon blessed them and told his mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed--35 and a sword will pierce your own soul—that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” [7]

26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

• The 1st born usually took care of the mother.
• His half siblings didn’t even believe Jesus was the Messiah until His resurrection.
• John was Jesus’ beloved disciple.

27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. [8]

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 27:34–44). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ps 69:21). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mk 15:23–32). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 19:41). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ac 3:17). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 23:27–43). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[7] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 2:34–35). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[8] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 19:18–27). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

JOHN 19:15 (Review)
15 They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”
“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

• The Jewish nation fell right into Pilate’s hands
• Pilate wants the Jews to crucify Jesus so he can keep his position.
• The Jewish leaders want Pilate (Rome) to crucify Jesus so they can keep their positions.

 
MATTHEW 27:24-33
JESUS OR BARABBAS
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”

• Was Pilate really for Jesus?
• Acts 4:27 - “For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,[1]
• The believers didn’t think Pilate was innocent.

25 All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

• The Jewish leaders had accused Jesus of performing miracles under the power of Beelzebub.
• The followers believed the leaders.
• They continued to listen to their teachers who taught in error.
• They were dead wrong and they were going to suffer from it.
• Personal: What is my responsibility?
• Read last paragraph of notes
• Don’t become dependent on me
• You need to grow in spiritual maturity where you can consistently hear messages and be able to filter them through the 66 books.
• I will always tell you what you hear may not be true… even when it comes from pastors.
• “His blood be on us and on our children.” Is prophetic of what is to come.
• 70 AD – Titus has 1.1 million Jews killed.
• (Refer to Luke 23:24)

26 Then he released Barabbas to them and, after having Jesus flogged, handed him over to be crucified.

• Matthew is not in chronological order (Luke is)
• Jesus has already been scourged by Pilate (not a 2nd time)
• Eusebius – Ecclesiastical History, II, 7, page 43)
  “It is proper also, to observe, how it is asserted that this same Pilate, who was governor at our Savior’s crucifixion in the reign of Calus, whose times we are recording, fell into such calamities that he was forced to become his own murderer and the avenger of his own wickedness. Divine justice, it seems, did not long protract his punishment. This is stated by the Greek historians who have recorded the Olympiads in order, together with the transactions of the times.
• (Refer to Mark 15:16)

 
MOCKED BY THE MILITARY
27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole company around him. 28 They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe. 29 They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 Then they spat on him, took the staff, and kept hitting him on the head.

• Genesis 3:18 – (God cursed the ground in relation to Adam’s sin) – 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. [2]
• Galatians 3 – Jesus would become a curse.
• (Refer to Mark 15:20)

31 After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO CRIMINALS
32 As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced him to carry his cross. 33 When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull),[3]
 
MARK 15:16-20
MOCKED BY THE MILITARY
16 The soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called the whole company together.
(Refer to Matthew 27:28)
17 They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 They were hitting him on the head with a stick and spitting on him. Getting down on their knees, they were paying him homage. 20 After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his clothes on him.
(Refer to John 19:17)
CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO CRIMINALS
They led him out to crucify him. 21 They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’s cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus. [4]

• The Romans didn’t want Jesus to die before He got to the place of the cross.
• Cyrene was a place in North Africa – Map Picture
• Most famous person I met: Coach Tom Landry - Pic
• Rufus – who is Rufus?
• Romans 16:13 - Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother—and mine.[5]
• Not Paul’s physical mother but his spiritual mother.
• 1 Timothy 5:1-2 - Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.[6]
• This is all we know about Simon of Cyrene.
• He came home and told his son Rufus about carrying the cross of His Savior.
• Matthew 16:24 - Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.[7]
• Galatians 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.[8]
• I died with Christ… His cross is my cross.

 
LUKE 23:24-26
JESUS OR BARABBAS
24 So Pilate decided to grant their demand 25 and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder.

• Pilate released Barabbas (Son of the Father)
• Arrested for insurrection and murder.

But he handed Jesus over to their will.

• (Refer to Matthew 27:26)

THE WAY TO THE CROSS
26 As they led him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.[9]
 
JOHN 19:17
17 Carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.[10]

• Pictures of Golgotha from Israel
• (Refer to Mark 15:21)

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“Understanding the Spirits role, how would you communicate this message if your eighteen-year-old son had made up his mind to walk away from everything you have taught him, morally ethically and theologically, unless he had a compelling reason not to?”

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ac 4:27). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ge 3:18). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 27:24–33). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mk 15:16–21). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ro 16:13). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Ti 5). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[7] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 16:24). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[8] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ga 2:20). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[9] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 23:24–26). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[10] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 19:17). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.