Good Friday

Jesus fulfills Scripture in His crucifixion. Today unfolds more of God’s divine plan. His betrayer Judas, returns the blood money that buys the Potter field, Jesus is sent to Pilate & Herod who neither find guilt in Him, His garments are gambled for as prophesied, Jesus is scourged, beaten, and mocked by the Roman soldiers before heading to Golgotha to pay the ultimate price for our sin. He is crucified on a Roman cross and does it all willingly, and lays down His life for His sheep. He lays down  His life as He proclaimed He would, written in John 10, and He will raise it up again. Sunday’s coming…

Scripture Study today:

Matthew 27:1-61

Mark 15:1-47

Luke 22:63 - 23:56

John 18:28 - 19:42

Also readings today from “One Perfect Life” by John MacArthur a harmonizing of the Gospels. 

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Transcript

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Well welcome back as we go through uh Good Friday today, uh as we progress through uh through Passion Week or Holy Week and as we continue our study today. Uh just to jump right in, uh we'll give you the scriptures for today is uh Matthew 27 verses 1 through 61, uh which is where we'll actually start today, is at Matthew 27, uh Mark 15 verses 1 through 47, Luke 22, verse 63 through chapter 23, verse 56, and John 18, 28 through chapter 19, verse 42. Um, and so like I said, we're gonna read today in Matthew 27. Um we'll also read some out of Luke 23 and Mark 15, all three today, um, and then uh we're gonna read out of uh a little bit different than what we've done out of a book called One Perfect Life that's a harmonization of the gospels as we look at Jesus and Pilate and Jesus and Herod uh and his uh uh trial before them um today. So with that, we'll uh just jump right in in Matthew 27 uh uh as we uh finished up yesterday and as Christ finished on on uh Thursday evening, uh the way we look at the week, Thursday evening, and uh into the wee hours of the morning uh in front of the chief priest, um, and they've accused him of blasphemy. They've uh uh the chief priest is as tore his robe um pronouncing that, uh, and as uh as the sun rises and uh as things come and they finish out their trial in the daylight, as the everything in night would have uh been illegal anyway, um, that's where we're gonna pick up. And in verse twenty or chapter twenty-seven of Matthew, verse one, it says, Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put him to death, and they bound him and led him away and delivered him to Pilate the governor. See, the Jews didn't have the authority uh to to kill, they they were not legally allowed to kill. And uh so then in verse three it says, Then when Judas, and and so to take a different look here back to Judas, it said, Then when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priest and elders, saying, I've sinned by betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself. And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed, and he went away and hanged himself. So again, Judas being remorseful, just as Peter, as we looked at yesterday, was remorseful after he had denied Christ. Though Peter went away, as we can see as as the gospels continue, and as we get into the book of Acts, Peter goes to repent and come back to Christ. Judas goes to hang himself uh in guilt and shame. Um again, uh, you know, it it's worthy to note if Judas repents, uh Jesus forgives, just as his prayer, forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do, um, as we'll look at. So in verse six, it says, The chief priest took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful for us to put them into the treasury, into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood. And they conferred together, and with the money they bought the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. For this reason that field has been called the field of blood to this day. Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, and they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of one whose price had been set by the sons of Israel, and they gave him gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me. So again, Zechariah 11, another prophecy that was fulfilled, just as we've talked about all week in God's divine perfect plan of um of how this week unfolds, regardless. And like we said before, maybe just on the podcast, of that these guys would never do anything to um to affirm that Christ was the Messiah on their own will and their own merit, but yet the prophecies continue to be fulfilled through and by them in God's providential plan. So um uh as we go from there, and Jesus now going to be before Pilate, and like I said, I'm gonna read from this uh this um the one perfect life is what this book's called. It's uh harmonization of the four gospels as we look at Jesus and Pilate and Herod's exchange with one another, um, as it combines, like I say, the harmonization of all four gospels. I think it it lays out the scene uh very clearly uh as we read through it. So it said, when they had bound Jesus, the whole multitude of them arose and led away, led him away from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor, and it was early and it was early morning, but they themselves did not go into the praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover. Pilate then went out to them and said, What accusation do you bring against this man? They answered and said to him, If he were not an evil doer, we would not have delivered him up to you. Then Pilate said, You take him and judge him according to your law. Therefore the Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spoke, signifying by what death he would die. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a king. Then Pilate entered the praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews? Jesus stood before the governor and answered him, Are you speaking for yourself about this? Or did others tell you this concerning me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me. What have you done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world my servants would fight so that I should not be delivered of the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here. Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, It is rightly as you say that I am a king. For this cause I was born and for this cause I have come into the world, and that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. Pilate said to him, What is truth? And when he said that and when he said this he went out again to the Jews, and said to the chief priest and the crowd, I find no fault in this man at all. But they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place, and while he was being accused of many things by the chief priest and the elders, he answered nothing. Then Pilate asked him again, saying, Do you answer nothing? Do you not hear how many things they testify against you? But he answered him not one word, so that the governor marvelled greatly. So again there, you know, just a few things to note is is between Jesus and Pilate, it's it's is a few things that are very consistent, um, that Pilate's never found and never finds any guilt in Jesus, just as no one would. Um no honest person would that uh as as being the the God man that walked the earth that never sinned. Um Pilate finds no guilt and no any wrongdoing whatsoever in him, and that doesn't change. Um, Pilate asked that key question, what is truth? And Jesus is truth. What we read about him is truth. The Bible that points to him is truth that we can look at today. So uh as we keep going, it says, um, when Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked if the man were a Galilean. And as soon as he uh and as soon as he knew that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time. So Pilate's feeling it out here that he can send Jesus to Herod because he's under Herod's jurisdiction of where he's from. He said, Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad, for he had desired for a long time to see him, because he had heard many things about him, and he hoped to see him see some miracle done by him. Then he questioned him with many words, but he answered him nothing, and the chief priest and the scribe stood at stood and vehemently accused him. Then Herod, with this men of war, treated him with contempt and mocked him, arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him back to Pilate. That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other. Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing in the multitude of one prisoner, releasing to the multitude one prisoner, whomever they requested, and at that time they had a notorious prisoner, a robber named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels. They had committed murder and a certain rebellion made in the city. Therefore, when they had gathered together, the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them. But Pilate answered them, saying, You have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ. Do you want me to release you reason release to you the king of the Jews? For he knew that the chief priest had handed him over because of envy. So again, Pilate there, because of envy Pilate knew what was going on. While he was sitting on the judgment seat, or so it seems, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him. Then Pilate went, then Pilate, when he had called together the chief priest, the rulers and the people, said to them, You have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people, and indeed having examined him in your presence I have found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. No, neither did Herod, for I sent you but sent you back to him, and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by him. I will therefore chastise him and release him, for it was necessary for him to release one of them, one to them at the feast. But the chief priest and the elder stirred up the crowd, so that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor answered and said to them, Which of the two do you want me to release to you? And they all cried out at once, saying, Away with this man and release to us Barabbas. Not this man, but Barabbas. Pilate, therefore, wishing to release Jesus, answered and called out to them again, What then do you want me to do with Jesus who is called Christ, whom you call King of the Jews, whom you call the King of the Jews? But they all shouted and cried out again, saying to him, Let him be crucified, crucify him, crucify him. Then he said to them the third time, Why? What evil has he done? I have found no reason for death in him. I will therefore chastise him and let him go. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him, and the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a put on him a purple robe. Then they said, Hail King of the Jews, and they all struck him with their hands. Pilate then went out again and said to them, Behold, I am bringing bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no fault in him. Then Jesus came out wearing a wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, Behold the man. Therefore, when the chief priest and officers saw him, they were insistent and cried out all the more, demanding with loud voices, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, You take him and crucify him, for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, but he made because he made himself the Son of God. Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid, and went again into the prayer to him and said to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then Pilate said to them, said to him, Are you not speaking to me? Do you not know that I have the power to crucify you and the power to release you? Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin. So again Jesus tells him, and that's another point I wanted to interject in, is that he explains to Pilate the only power that he has in this situation is the power given to him from above. Again, God's divine plan, just as the scriptures prophesied, just as all points to is what's coming. From then on, Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. So now the Jews are switching to politically try to encourage Pilate. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down and and sat down in the judgment seat in the place that is called the pavement, but in Hebrew Gabatha. Now it was the preparation day of the Passover and about the sixth hour, and he said to the Jews, Behold your king. But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priest answered, We have no king but Caesar. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed. When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was arising was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it, and all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children. So Pilate wanted to gratify the crowd, gave sentence that it should be as they requested, and he released them, released to them Barabbas, the one they requested, who for rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison. So all of this back and forth between Pilate and the Jews, and and um you know, we we read through quickly of of Jesus being scorched and beaten and chastised and mocked and the crown of thorns twisted and and forced down into his head by the Roman soldiers during this time before before we they even head out to Golgotha with his cross, uh now that the Pilate has has uh agreed to crucify him. You just think of the the pain and the anguish that's already taken place um as we can look at the cross and look at the path to the cross of the things that Jesus the the beating, the scourging, a and not to to continue to to just repeat, but to really think of of on the way to the cross in this setting by these these Roman soldiers. If you if you think of an army and if you think of that what these guys are uh what their job is, um the things that that they do, I'm sure they do well. And and the things that Christ has already went through at this point is brutal, is is tough. And if you think of uh that that Caesar was thinking if he chastised if he scourged him enough that that they would would see a beaten, humiliated cr Jesus, and then let him go, that that's the point that we're at. And as that comes out, um that that's happened, as we just read, uh, it's still not enough for the Jews, and and again, all in God's designed, providential plan to pay for the sin of the world. So we'll pick back up and and as we get out of the one perfect life and then back into back into the word, we're gonna get into Luke uh uh Luke 23, out of one perfect life, the book that is. Um I highly recommend that book, by the way. Uh One Perfect Life, a harmonization of the Gospels uh of the wall of the walk of Christ. So um in Luke 23, verse 26, it says, When they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus. So by this point, Jesus is probably been scourged and beaten enough as we were just talking about, that he he doesn't even have the physical strength to carry to carry this cross and to carry his own cross. Uh in verse 27 it said, and following him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting him. But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping 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 wounds that never bore, and the breast 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 tree is green, what will happen when it is dry? Two others also who were criminals were being led away were being led away to be put to death with him. When they came to the place called the skull, there they crucified him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. But Jesus was saying, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And that in Luke twenty two, verse thirty-four, Jesus was saying, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. Going through all of this and all of what Jesus has gone through on this day in these last couple of days, but uh through the night, through the morning, through the middle of the day into now, and he reaches out and says, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. How peaceful that is to know that that's my Lord and Savior that's doing this willingly and in the midst of it happening, again, still fully God and fully man, in agony in the garden. That same person at the very moment. Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Father, forgive me when I do not know what I'm doing. So then they cast lots, dividing up his garments among themselves, and the people stood by, looking on, and even the rulers were sneering at him, saying, He saved others, let him save himself if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one. The soldiers also mocked him, coming up to him, offering him sour wine, and saying, If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself. Now there was also an inscription above him, This is the king of the Jews. One of the criminals who were hanging there was hurling abuse at him, saying, Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us. But the other answered and rebuking him, said, Do you not even fear God since you were under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. And he was saying, Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom. And he said to him, Truly I say to you, to day you shall be with me in paradise. It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour. There sixth sixth hour being noon, ninth hour being three, so from twelve to three o'clock darkness fell over the whole land, because the sun was obscured, and the veil of the temple was torn in two, the veil, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and Jesus crying out with a loud voice, saying, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. Having said this, he breathed his last. Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, Certainly this man was innocent. And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle when they observed what had happened began to return, beating their breast, and all his acquaintances and the women who accompanied him from Galilee were standing at a distance, seeing these things. So again, Jesus gives up his spirit, he lays down his life, no one takes it from him, as John records. As we get to this point, I want to turn over to John and John chapter 19, uh, verse 30, uh, to pick right back up in the same spot. It says, Therefore, when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, It is finished, and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for the Sabbath was a high day, as Pilate, that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the for the of the first man and of the other who was crucified with him. But coming to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out, and he who has seen is testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. For these things came to pass to fulfill scripture, not a bone of him shall be broken, and again another scripture says they shall look on him who they pierced. So again, another prophecy fulfilled, another scripture fulfilled, um, as as he fulfilled every scripture of the Messiah, as he fulfilled every prophecy in God's divine plan as Jesus went to the cross and as he walked through and he walked the earth to this point, everything had been fulfilled just as as the scriptures proclaim that they would. So as Jesus is still at the on the cross. And to finish out today in Mark 15, well in verse 42, it said, When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the council, and Luke records that he had no part in the plan to kill Christ, it said, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, believed in Christ, and he gathered up courage and he went in before Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate wondered if he was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether he was already dead. And ascertaining this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. Joseph bought a linen cloth, took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb, which he'd which had been hon out in the rock, and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. And we can also note in the other uh in John that Nicodemus um assisted Joseph of Arimathea in this. And in verse 47, it says, Mary Magdalene and the Mar and Mary, the mother of Joseph, were looking on to see where he was laid. So as as this day comes to a close, the Savior of the world goes through an unjust trial, is found by the one who finally had had the sentenced him to be crucified, found no guilt in him. Though again, in God's providential plan, everything is unfolding, has unfolded, and did just as the scriptures were fulfilled in every way. As I said yesterday, my sin and your sin was put on the cross that day. And we call it Good Friday because I'm so thankful that my sin was paid for that day. Because there's no other way to pay for it. There's no way I can pay for it. There's no way you can pay for it. No matter how hard we wanted to try or want to try, or the things that we can do, nothing we can do can justify us in the eyes of God and make us righteous in his eyes, aside from Christ, and what he did this week, as we're reading about, as we're studying about right now, as we're celebrating. Though Friday is a tough day, and you can imagine the disciples and where they are setting, head out in fear, the things that are going through their mind. Though as as we know and read, and as we will continue to go through Sunday and the resurrection is coming. So that death has no sting, death has no fear, death has no worry. The wages of sin was paid for on this day. And we should all be so thankful for Jesus. Love y'all. You're on Good Friday. We'll see you tomorrow.