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The Lord’s Passion
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Only once in the Scriptures do we find the English word “passion”, Acts 1. 3. It is the translation of the Greek word pathein, to suffer. There it refers to the consummation of the Lord’s suffering at…
Opposition seems to have greatly increased after the Lord went up to Jerusalem to His final Passover as described in Matthew 21. At the start, He had a triumphal reception by the multitudes as He ente…
After the Passover, Jesus began to speak of His betrayal. You are not all clean, He said, but still He did not indicate who was unclean, John 13.10. John, looking back as he wrote, realized that the L…
After prayer, John 17, and the singing of a hymn, possibly two Hallel Psalms 113 and 114, the Lord and His eleven faithful disciples crossed the brook Cedron, and ascended the mount of Olives to the g…
The Lord’s cup of bitterness was full, so full that He must needs leave even the three chosen disciples, Matt.26.39. Telling them to watch, He went a little further into the garden alone. From the dif…
As Jesus spoke, a multitude approach-ed to apprehend Him, Matt. 26. 47. It consisted of priests, elders, temple officers, soldiers, servants, and pos-sibly many who came merely out of curiosity. Nor d…
The chief captains and officers, realizing that Jesus was offering no resistance to them, seized and bound Him, and led Him to the house of Annas, the high priest, John 18. 13. Thus they sought to hum…
There followed The Civil Trials – also in three parts. (1) Before Pilate. The Sanhedrin brought Jesus to Pilate, and accused Him of saying that “he himself is Christ a King”, Luke 23. 2, in opposi-tio…
Even at Calvary the Lord’s Passion continued. Pilate wrote a title to be placed on the cross. “Jesus of Naz-areth the King of the Jews”, and in spite of the opposition of the chief priests demanding a…
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