(NASB) Psalm 31:1-5 “IN YOU, O LORD, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed; In Your righteousness deliver me. 2 Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly; Be to me a rock of strength, A stronghold to save me. 3 For You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name”™s sake […]
As Jesus was on the cross”¦darkness enveloped the land for three hours from 12 noon to 3 pm. What could it have symbolized? (NASB) Matthew 27:45 “Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.” An Old Testament prophet, Amos, used darkness as a symbol for prophecy of Messiah […]
Jesus had been crucified at 9 am. Then at noon, darkness shrouded the land for three hours. Matthew probably used the Jewish reckoning of telling time. (NASB) Matthew 27:45 “Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.” Many onlookers stayed but it is possible that during this time […]
(NIV) Matthew 27:38-44 “Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads, 40and saying, “˜You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are […]
Think about this scene. Three men were hanging on three crosses. Jesus, the one in the middle had been flogged, scourged and perhaps now the flies were tormenting that lacerated body. Jesus would have had to endure His pain with the mocking of the onlookers”¦scorning Him as He hung on that cross, naked. What incredible […]
The prophecies of Messiah”™s first coming in the Old Testament are fulfilled in the New Testament. Consider this prophecy in Psalm 22:6 [which is a description of Jesus on the cross] (NASB) Psalm 22:6a “But I am a worm and not a man”¦” What Jesus did: Jesus, God the Son, humbled Himself ““ as the […]
A prayer of a follower of Christ and those who come to Christ Jesus for salvation: (NIV) Psalm 51:1-2 “HAVE MERCY on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out all my transgressions. 2Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” (NIV) Psalm 51:10-12 “Create […]
As Jesus was suffering and dying on the cross, He did not neglect His mother”™s needs. (NIV) John 19:25-27 “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother”™s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to […]
Jesus was crucified between two criminals. One held Him in derision and cynical condemnation. The other, well”¦the other came to recognize Jesus as a Man without sin. (NASB) Luke 23:40-41 “But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “˜Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?”™ 41 “˜And […]
As Jesus hung on the cross between two criminals and people were gaping at the naked, dying bodies of these three men”¦both criminals “˜heaped insults”™ on Jesus (See Matthew 27:44). As Jesus hung there on the cross, forgiving those who crucified Him, one of the criminals heard and considered His grace toward those who were […]