Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
---The Crown of Thorns is the Chastisement of OUR PEACE...for Peace resides in the Mind hence it was upon him...Hence Isaiah 53:4-6
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet WE DID ESTEEM him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(HENCE as stated in John 19:4...)
5 But he was WOUNDED for OUR transgressions, he was BRUISED for OUR iniquities: the CHASTISEMET OF OUR PEACE was UPON HIM; and WITH HIS STRIPES. WE. ARE. HEALED.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, THAT YE MAY KNOW that I find NO FAULT in him.
---AGAIN Pilate tries to SAVE HIM...and Did we INDEED esteemed Him as stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Before all
5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
6 When the CHIEF PRIESTS therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for. I. find. NO. Fault. IN. him.
7 The JEWS answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8 When PILATE therefore heard that saying, he was the more AFRAID;
---NOW, here is a Pilate a warrior, one that was fierce and cold blooded would kill in a heartbeat...with good judgment for Promotion comes from God...Psalm 75:6-7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. ---Why in the world would a Gentile high and mighty in earthly place be afraid of this man which had the audacity to give Him no answer...and in v10 Pilate is in a bit of shock and annoyed at him for it was demeaning his place and honor...when he speaks not to him...
9 And went AGAIN into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou?
But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou NOT unto me? KNOWEST THOW NOT that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
---THEN...PILATE BY ALL MEANS MUST REMIND HIM OF HIS STATURE...WHEN HE WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE IT HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE...ITS ODD WHEN HE WAS AFRAID SUCH AS A MAN HE WAS...NOW WHY WAS PILATE AFRAID??? THEN JESUS BLOWS HIS MIND WITH THIS STATEMENT...WHICH DENOUNCES HIS POWER TO HIS FACE, BUT IN v12 PILATE WANTED TO RELEASE HIM...NOW WHY?
11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the JEWS. CRIED. OUT., saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
---NOW, they pronounce him to be Caesar's Enemy...as though he is dishonoring Caesar; When in fact He said Render to Caesar what is Caesar's! and accusing him of blasphemy which he spoke only the TRUTH for He is GOD...He is not like unto Man such as so ... Number 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the SIXTH hour: and he saith unto the JEWS, Behold your King!
15 But THEY cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. PILATE saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The CHIEF PRIESTS answered, We have no king but Caesar.
16 THEN delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
18 WHERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, and two other with him, on either side one, and JESUS IN THE MIDST.
19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.
20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
21 Then said the CHIEF PRIEST of the Jews to PILATE, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
---Pilate, wrote the TRUTH, and they such as saw the blindness they thought but NOT so for Pilate would not let THEIR BLINDNESS rule in HISTORY for the HE STATED and PROCLAIMED the TRUTH in WRITING...the PEN DEFIED THEIR CLAIM...it was the least He could do...FOR TIS WHY PILATE STATED AS SO...
22 PILATE answered, WHAT. I. HAVE. WRITTEN. I. HAVE. WRITTEN.
---THEN THEY CRUCIFIED JESUS CHRIST, WHILE IT HUNG OVER HIS HEAD...AND THE JEWS WERE SICK TO THEMSELVES OVER IT FOR ALL THEIR WORKS AND PLOTTING WOULD NOT BE HID BUT ONLY PROVEN THEIR WRONGS...AND THEY WOULD SUFFER BECAUSE THEY SAID LET HIS BLOOD BE UPON OUR HANDS...THEN THE VEIL WAS RIPPED AND MORE...ALL THE PROPHECY OF THE MESSIAH WHICH THEY WOULD FOREVER PONDER GENERATION TO GENERATION...TO THIS DAY...THEY TAKE CAIAPHAS's WORD OVER THE EVIDENCE THEY SOME KNOW BUT STILL DENY...
3 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
---CAN YOU IMAGINE A MOTHER NEVER LEAVING HIM THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CRUCIFIXION WATCHING THEM MURDER HER SON...HER HEART AND MIND AT THIS SIGHT WAS INSANELY IN PAIN...IN AGONY OF A 'LOVING' MOTHER SHE BORE THE SWORD OF GOD'S WILL GOING THROUGH HER HEART SINCE THE ANNOUNCIATION...BY THE CUSTOMS AND PUBLIC AND ABOVE ALL LOOKING BEYOND THEIR IGNORANCE...
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
---See He didn't leave her alone, she went and stayed with them a place for her to be...he didn't abandon his earthly mother...He called her woman, for it was God speaking to her...for she kept asking in all her agony what am I going to do, for the sword of this level of agony she needed such and God PROVIDED and THEY OBEYED...Then AFTER THIS knowing all things were ...then He could end it...
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought PILATE that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear PIERCED HIS SIDE, and forthwith came there OUT BLOOD AND WATER.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
---HE FULFILLED THE LAW IN UTTER DETAIL AND IN ABUNDANCE.
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but SECRETLY for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39 AND THERE CAME ALSO NICODEMUS, WHICH AT THE FIRST CAME TO JESUS BY NIGHT, AND BROUGHT A MIXTURE OF MYRRH AND ALOES, ABOUT AN HUNDRED POUND WEIGHT.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
---SEE, THIS IS WHAT OFFENDED THEM BUT BE NOT WEARY...FOR THIS WAS JUST THE BEGINNING...OF CHANGING THE WORLD...HENCE OF THESE THINGS...JOHN 16:1 WAS THAT OF JOHN 15...AS FOLLOWS...FOR HE WOULD RISE AGAIN...HEBREWS 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament....Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. ---John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. HENCE he would rise from the GRAVE and the HOLY GHSOT was Birthed...on the DAY of Harvest on PENTECOST...just LIKE the Passover they would Sacrifice a Lamb, Jesus was the Lamb of God who took on the Iniquity of us ALL...as stated in Isaiah 53:6...the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. This must needs be done for REMISSION of OUR SINS...and the GODLY PROCESS of the FULFILLING of JOHN 3, so it could be manifested on ACTS 2...this is what He meant in Chapter 15 of John...Even 15 means beginning...
15 of JOHN
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
If you ARE SERIOUS with GOD he will lead the way, go to church and He will show you...seek His Face...There is NOTHING that can stop any from receiving the HOLY GHOST, NO evil can but the ones choice but it Didn't STOP Legion with over 2000 devils...no evil can stop...it is a choice ...Hence WHY Joshua declared it to be...a 'CHOOSING'...such as declared...
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
The OTHER side of the FLOOD...which PERISHED...
