Gospels (81) - Matthew 27:24-33, Mark 15:16-20, Luke 23:24-26 & John 19:17

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: Gospels

Rusty's Notes

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.