SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/11/2024 9:08 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-9 “The Ignorant Wicked”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
27:27-37
Message of the verses: “27 Then the
soldiers of the governor
took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him. 28 They
stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. 29 And after twisting together a
crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and
they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the
Jews!" 30 They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him
on the head. 31 After they had mocked Him, they took the scarlet robe
off Him and put His own garments back on Him, and led Him away to crucify Him.
“32 As
they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed
into service to bear His cross.
“33 And when they came to a place called
Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull, 34 they gave Him wine to drink mixed
with gall; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink. 35 And when
they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by
casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they began to keep watch over Him
there. 37 And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read,
"THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’”
Here
is the last part of what John MacArthur wrote for this section of verses: “Jewish men normally wore five pieces of
clothing: sandals, and inner cloak, a headpiece, a belt, and an outer cloak, or
tunic. The four soldiers dived up the
first four pieces of Jesus’ garments among themselves by casting lots. Because ‘the tunic was seamless, woven in one
piece,’ they decided not to cut it into four pieces but to ‘cast lots for it,
to decide whose it shall be’ (John 19:23-24).
Having done that, the sat down near the cross and began to keep watch
over Him there. The quaternion was
required to remain with the victim until his death was certain, making sure that
friends or family members did not rescue him or seek to reduce his suffering by
putting him to death by a swifter means.
“As
a final mockery of Jesus and affront to the Jewish leaders, Pilate had
instructed the soldiers (see John 19:19a) to put up the charge against Him
which read, "THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’”Matthew recorded an
abbreviated version of the full inscription, which read, JESUS THE NAZARENE,
THE KING OF THE JEWS,’ AND WAS ‘WRITTEN IN Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek’ (John
19:19b-20). Greek was the most nearly universal language in the empire at that
time, Aramaic (closely related to Hebrew) was the language of Palestine, and
Latin was the official language of Rome.
By those three languages the governor made certain that virtually every
person who passed by could read the inscription.
“The
chief priests insisted that the wording of the inscription be changed to ‘He
said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’ But Pilate refused to concede to them again,
declaring with finality, What I have written I have written’ (John 19:21-22). 8/11/2024 8:53 AM
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