Lord's Table

Introduction

Last week in Mark very well documented

Palm Sunday Mark 11 for 1 week

2 processions in Jerusalem in year AD30, beginning week of Passover - most sacred in Jewish Calendar

One peasant and one Emperial

East - Jesus, Mt of Olives, on donkey

West - Pontius Pilate from his villa

Monday

cleaning temple o

Tue

Jesus comes from Bethany and is hungry, curses fig tree

Very busy day, 3 chapters

Wed

Feast of Unleavened bread , chief priests are looking to arrest Jesus.

2 days before feast of Unleavened bread and passover.

symbolic journey of disciples from Wed to Easter Sunday.

Anointed for burial by an unnamed woman (alabaster jar), contrast between believer and traitor, anointing is best action possible.

Thursday

feast of Unleavened Bread, preparation for Passover meal

eats in evening Passover - this is my body (exodus 12 - before the 10th plague striking Pharaoh's 1st born

before Anas and Caiaphas.

following Mark’s calendar Friday will begin at dawn when Jesus is transferred from custody of temple authorities to imperial governor.

Longest days are Wed and Fri

Friday

evens in 3 hourly intervals like a Roman military watch

Look at death of Jesus , 4 aspects to consider this week

Abandonment He received

closest friends for 3.5 years - leave

you look around for your friends they werent there

lonely feeling

Mark 6:52 “hearts hardened”

Journey of disciples with Jesus toward Jerusalem from Caesarea Phillipi, mark uses healing of blind man at beginning of journey to illustrate disciples blindness

Journey to Jerusalem JEsus predicts death 3 times, but disciples argues who is the greatest

Isaiah 49

Bearing sin, psychological aspect

you sin and feel guilty

never sin but sin of whole world placed upon you

Physical pain

if you receive Roman flogging, you will die - Eusebius - man lived , miracle

After beating if they left you alone, you would die

staros pole, put on your back , you carry it to place of execution

Cymon syrene has to carry it

Breath in and out , use legs to breathe in

Thats why they break your legs die within 20 min

Jesus has expensive garment , no seams, so cast lots

Crucified at 9 AM, at 12 darkeness - 2 indepenent writersJulius Afghanis, etc cant be eclipse its a full moon

Wrath of God

what Jesus dreaded

Never cries out during

what JEsus feared was wrath of God undiluted

My God my God why have you forsaken me

Psalm 22 knowing that at that point we should have been rejected but for us Jesus was rejected and what we deserved He received

Rom 8:1 No condemnation

2 Cor 5 He who knew no sin became sin , have become righteousness of God

Come before the throne of God Heb 4