Instead of doing a homemaking post, I have decided to post
scripture from when Jesus was delivered to the crowd until before he is resurrected. I have tried to put together Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John into a cohesive story as best I can.
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Jesus answered [Pilate], “You would have no authority over
me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered
me over to you has the greater sin.”
(John 19:11)
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the
governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And
they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown
of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And
kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And
they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they
had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him
and led him away to crucify him.
(Matthew 27:27-31)
And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene,
who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it
behind Jesus. And there followed him a
great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for
him. But turning to them Jesus said,
“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for
your children. For behold, the days are
coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never
bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains,
‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things when
the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:26-31)
And when they came to a place called Golgotha
(which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with
gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. (Matthew 27:33-34)
Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to
death with him… there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right
and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do.” (Luke 23:32-34a)
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It
read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for
the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in
Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. So the
chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the
Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have
written.” (John 19:19-22)
And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at
him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of
God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also
mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, “If you are the
King of the Jews, save yourself!” (Luke 23:35-37)
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads 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.” So also the chief priests, with the scribes
and elders, mocked him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is
the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe
in him. He trusts in God; let God
deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” (Matthew 27:39-43)
One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying,
“Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not
fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the
due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come
into your kingdom.” And he said to him,
“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise .” (Luke 23:39-43)
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, 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 fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided
my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers
did these things, but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple
whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your
son!” Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own
home. (John 19:23-27)
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This next section contains the last few moments before Jesus
dies. Each recounting has something
important and to not lose what is said in each, I have decided to put them all
up, with each of them ending with Jesus’ death.
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Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
until the ninth hour. And about the
ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema
sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said,
“This man is calling Elijah.” And one of
them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a
reed and gave it to him to drink. But
the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice
and yielded up his spirit. (Matthew 27:45-50)
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said
(to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they
put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
When Jesus had received the sour wine,
he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (John 19:28-30)
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his
last. (Luke 23:46a)
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And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from
top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of
the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after
his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with
him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they
were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” (Matthew
27:51-54)
He praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!” And all the crowds that had assembled for this
spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their
breasts. And all his acquaintances and
the women who had followed him from Galilee
stood at a distance watching these things. (Luke 23:47b-49)
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies
would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day),
the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be
taken away. So the soldiers came and
broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he
was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with
a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony
is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the Scripture
might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another Scripture says, “They will
look on him whom they have pierced.”
(John 19:31-37)
And when evening had come, since it was the day of
Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a
respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God
Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in
linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there
was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. (John
19:39-41)
The women who had come with him from Galilee
followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and
ointments. On the Sabbath they rested
according to the commandment. (Luke 23:55-56)
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the
chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we
remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I
will rise.’ Therefore order the tomb to
be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and
tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse
than the first.” Pilate said to them,
“You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” So they went and made the tomb secure by
sealing the stone and setting a guard.
(Matthew 27:62-66)
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