Episode #87. Today we’ll read John chapter 19 together: Jesus was mocked, flogged, and sentenced, He was crucified, and He was buried.
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Joy: You’re listening to the Lifting Her Voice podcast, Episode #87. Today we’ll read John chapter 19 together: Jesus was mocked, flogged, and sentenced, He was crucified, and He was buried.
Welcome to the Lifting Her Voice podcast. I’m your host, Joy Miller, and I invite you to grab your Bible and join me as we simply read God’s word together. Some things require discipline and sometimes that’s just not easy to muster by yourself, no matter how badly you want to do it or how much you know you should. It’s just easier to do it with a friend. So refill your coffee or tea, get comfortable in your favorite chair and follow along as I read aloud. I’m so glad you’re here!
When I learned the mechanics of crucifixion, I appreciated even more what Christ has done for me. I pray it will do the same for you. I promise I won’t belabor it, but I will say that if you have little ones in the room, you might want to put your headphones on. There is no getting around it…crucifixion is gruesome and agonizing. We always tend to say, “Jesus died on the cross,” as if there was only one. The Romans invented crucifixion because, well…I guess because they were brutal and held little value for human life. Many died on crosses. We’ve all seen the depictions of Jesus on a cross. The wrists are nailed to the beam, ropes sometimes bound the arm to keep flesh from ripping away from those nails, a block of wood was placed so that the knees were bent slightly, and the feet were nailed to that block. Every move must have been excruciating and yet the moving was absolutely necessary to cling to life. The weight of the body would pull down and down until the lungs could no longer get air. At that point, the victim would have to push up on his nailed feet in order to straighten up and fill the lungs with air. This back and forth usually went on for about three days as the victim slowly asphyxiated and died. To you and I, that would probably be the worst of it. However, for Jesus, that was only the physical part of it. The agony came when He was separated from His Father. God turned His back on His Son and poured out His wrath for all sin – past, present and future. This is the punishment that Christ took on Himself for my sin.
John Chapter 19: 1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. 2 The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple robe around Him. 3 And they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping His face. 4 Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing Him outside to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging Him.” 5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the temple police saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate responded, “Take Him and crucify Him yourselves, for I find no grounds for charging Him.” 7 “We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever. 9 He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer. 10 So Pilate said to Him, “You’re not talking to me? Don’t You know that I have the authority to release You and the authority to crucify You?” 11 “You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.” 12 From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!” 13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha). 14 It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about six in the morning. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!” 15 But 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. 16 So then, because of them, he handed Him over to be crucified. Therefore they took Jesus away. 17 Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull Place, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified Him and two others with Him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. 19 Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’ ” 22 Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.” 23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but toss for it, to see who gets it.” [They did this] to fulfill the Scripture that says: They divided My clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for My clothing. And this is what the soldiers did. 25 Standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. 28 After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I’m thirsty!” 29 A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on hyssop and held it up to His mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. 31 Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that [their bodies] be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him. 33 When they came to Jesus, they did not break His legs since they saw that He was already dead. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. 35 He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth. 36 For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken. 37 Also, another Scripture says: They will look at the One they pierced. 38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus-but secretly because of his fear of the Jews-asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away. 39 Nicodemus (who had previously come to Him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about 75 pounds = 12 ounces of myrrh and aloes. 40 Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews. 41 There was a garden in the place where He was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it. 42 They placed Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation and since the tomb was nearby.
There are lots of things that I find interesting about this chapter and John in general. Have you picked up on the times John is talking about himself? He always talks about himself in the third person. If you missed it, go back to verses 26, 27, & 35. In those verses, he’s talking about himself. And just touching on the crucifixion a final time, when the authorities wanted someone to die quickly, they would break their legs so that they could not push up on the block of wood and gasp air. And finally, Jesus spoke the words, “It is finished.” Please don’t gloss over these words too quickly…He completed the work His Father sent him to do and that was to save the world from the wrath that God has toward sin. The price was paid once and for all. You don’t need to grovel, or beg. You don’t need to be good enough or give the right amount of money. It is finished. Only believe. Let’s pray. Oh, Father, thank You that You loved us so much that gave Your only Son. Thank You that we need only to believe and then depend on Your Holy Spirit to do the sanctifying work in us so that we may live eternally with You. Thank You that it is finished. Amen.
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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Christian Standard Bible(r), Copyright (c) 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible(r) and CSB(r) are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.
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