(NIV) Psalm 63:1-11 “O GOD, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 2I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3Because your love is better than life, […]
Pilate tried to get out of sentencing Jesus to death, but the Jewish leaders would have none of it: (NASB) Luke 23:18-23 “But they cried out all together, saying, “˜Away with this man, and release for us Barabbas!”™ 19 (He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection made in the city, […]
The Jewish leaders had plotted Jesus”™ death for a long time. But it didn”™t happen as they had carefully planned. (NASB) Matthew 26:3-5 “Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas; 4 and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth […]
Jesus stood during His “˜trials”™ before the Jewish leaders ““ three different trials ““ one before Annas, one before Caiaphas and one before the official Jewish Sanhedrin. After these religious trials Jesus stood before Pilate, Herod and then Pilate again. Jesus stood, knowing He would be condemned to die by crucifixion. He was not surprised. […]
Pilate was in a tight situation”¦Jesus was innocent of inciting rebellion; the Jewish leaders were calling for Jesus”™ death. Riots and bloodshed could be the results of Pilate”™s decision. There were thousands of Jews who had converged on Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. It could be a mess! (NASB) Luke 23:13-16 “Pilate summoned the chief priests […]
Pilate sent Jesus to Herod when he found out that Jesus was from Galilee. The Jewish leaders wanted Jesus to receive the death sentence which only Pilate could decree. They must have been incensed at this end play of Pilate. (NASB) Luke 23:8-11 “Now Herod was very glad when he saw Jesus; for he had […]
One way to pray is to pray God”™s words putting your name in the Scriptures: (NIV) Psalm 37:1-8 1DO NOT fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong; 2for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. 3Trust in the LORD and do […]
Pilate had found no guilt in Jesus and said so to His accusers. They had wanted the death penalty and had been thwarted by Pilate. Pilate recognized the powder keg he was sitting on and it”™s potential to explode, and the wick was about to be lit. Then the Jewish leaders gave him an apparent […]
Pilate either passed off Jesus”™ “˜truth”™ because he didn”™t really care, or he may have been cynical concerning the truth of God. Whatever he meant by the statement/question, “What is truth?” he returned to the outer courtyard to talk with the Jewish leaders. (NASB) John 18:38b “And when he had said this, he went out […]
Jesus”™ suffering had begun”¦the chosen people of God were in the process of rejecting Him”¦they had handed Him over to be sentenced to death. As Jesus stood before Pilate, He gave the Roman governor the opportunity to know Him, to know the truth about Him. Jesus led the conversation, beginning with the fact that He […]