Jesus’s Crucifixion and Death Fulfilled Scripture 23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to ...
The Crucifixion So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. Comment: After Pilate delivered Jesus to the Chief Priest and the Jews to be crucified, they wasted no time in executing the crucifixion. Since these crucifixions were performed outside the city, Jesus was also taken outside the city to the ...
Spiritual Blessings in our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 1 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Comment: The writer of Ephesians identifies himself as Paul, not just any Paul but, Paul who was an apostle of ...
The Greater Sin is with those who reject Jesus 8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. Comment: The jews made a statement that Jesus needed to die in verse 7 just above this one and verse 8 starts by indicating that when Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid. This tells us that Pilate was indeed afraid and was even more afraid when he heard ...
Jesus the innocent pronounced Not Guilty for the second time 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” Comment: We know from reading other gospels that the jews would not enter the courtyard of Pilate who was a gentile since they did not want to defile themselves for passover. It ...
Jesus the innocent, flogged and mocked 1 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. 2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Word Study: The word translated as “flogged” in the above verse 1, also means severe ...
1 Timothy 6:2b-5 (ESV Strong’s) A command to Timothy from Paul to teach the truth 2 ……Teach and urge these things. Comment: I have started with the second part of verse 2 as it links with verse 3-6 below, which is our passage for this sermon. Paul commands Timothy to teach and urge these things. What things?, by these things, Paul refers to all he has taught since chapter 1 ...
Romans 3:9-20 (ESV Strong’s) 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, Word Study: The greek word translated here as “charged” means “previously proved” Comment: Paul starts here in this verse by saying that they have already proven that all, both Jews and Greek, are under sin. This is indeed true ...
Genesis 2:16-17 (ESV Strong’s) 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Comment: After God created Adam and Eve, He gave them a commandment to eat of every tree of ...
Comment: To be justified or to be declared righteous before God is a common goal in most religions. However, one of the major differences between Christianity and all other religions is that Christianity is faith based and all other religions are works based. What this means is that all other religions believe that one attains righteousness before God by what he does or does not do. The deeds of a ...
