The Crucifixion according to John

He went out

To also point to Him being the sacrifice for our sins He must as it was mandatory of the law be taken out of the camp as all sin offerings were.

Leviticus 16:27 “And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.”

Hebrews 13:12 “So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.”

Deut 21:23 “ anyone who hangs on a tree is cursed by God”

Galatians 3:13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—”

There is so much detail in what Christ did to make sure we had all the proof we need that He was the Messiah and fulfilled the requirements set before us in the law of God.

Bearing His Cross

He was fulfilling His OT type Isaac, who went forth bearing the wood to his place of sacrifice.

Isaiah 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

1 Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”

Matthew 16:24–25 “Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”

Again they thought He would set up His kingdom and give out free food and free health care and free checks. What they didn’t was for them to have to sacrifice and give up their lives and die to self.

The sign nailed to the tree

we should remember there was another handwriting nailed to that cross spiritually, which no mortal could read.

On that signs was facts. He was indeed the King of The Jews.

Colossians 2:14 “by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.”

So that scripture would be fulfilled

They divided His garments. Why did John put this in His gospel. To show that scriputure was fulfilled

Psalm 22:16–18 “For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet— I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

What was said by David in Psalms 22 was being fulfilled in detail over a thousand years later. Why? John 20:30–31 “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”

Do you believe? Not have you matured and grown up and straightened up from you wild ways. But have you believed and that faith has changed you to a new person

Behold your son and behold your mother

Amidst the suffering and anguish Christ looks down in love and sets forth by his disciples the care for his mother. An honor he placed on John to trust such a person as the mother of Jesus in his care. Even on the cross Christ is seeing the the affairs of those he loves

I Thirst

Once again why did Jesus say this? Did he thirst? yes but he could have said a multitude of things like I hurt or im in anguish. But none the less He said this so that scripture may be fulfilled and once again show that Jesus is the Christ. Psalms 22 showed us his tongue clung to his cheek because His mouth was dry. Psalm 69:21 “They gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour vinegar to drink.”

It is Finished

Psalm 22:31 “they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.”

Done what? What is finished? What had been promised. What all the scriptures had pointed to. What the lives of all the patriarchs and fathers before them had lived out in their lives had pointed too.

What was finished?

Expository Thoughts on John, Vol. 3 Notes. John 19:28–37

(a) Our Lord meant that His great work of redemption was finished. He had, as Daniel foretold, “finished transgression, made an end of sin, made reconciliation for iniquity, and brought in everlasting righteousness.” (Dan. 9:24.) After thirty-three years, since the day when He was born in Bethlehem, He had done all, paid all, performed all, suffered all that was needful to save sinners, and satisfy the justice of God. He had fought the battle and won it, and in two days would give proof of it by rising again.

(b) Our Lord meant that God’s determinate counsel and fore-will concerning His death was now accomplished and finished. All that had been appointed from all eternity that He should suffer, He had now suffered.

(c) Our Lord meant that He had finished the work of keeping God’s holy law. He had kept it to the uttermost, as our head and representative, and Satan had found nothing in Him. He had magnified the law and made it honorable, by doing perfectly all its requirements. “Woe unto us,” says Burkitt, “if Christ had left but one farthing of our debt unpaid. We must have lain in hell insolvent to all eternity.”

(d) Our Lord meant that He had finished the types and figures of the ceremonial law. He had at length offered up the perfect sacrifice, of which every Mosaic sacrifice was a type and symbol and there remained no more need of offerings for sin. The old covenant was finished.

(e) Our Lord meant that He had finished and fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament. At length, as the Seed of the woman he had bruised, the serpent’s head, and accomplished the work which Messiah was engaged by covenant to come and perform.

(f) Finally, our Lord meant that His sufferings were finished. Like His Apostle, He had “finished His course.” His long life of pain and contradiction from sinners, and above all His intense sufferings, as bearer of our sins on Gethsemane and Calvary, were at last at an end. The storm was over, and the worst was passed. The cup of suffering was at last drained to the very dregs.

Gave up His Spirit

Christ said He came to lay down His life for the sheep. He say He had the power to lay it down and take it up again. Here it says He gave up His spirit.

Final comments about crucifixion

It only remains to add that the cruel punishment of crucifixion was formally abolished by the Emperor Constantine, towards the end of his reign. It is an awful historical fact that when Jerusalem was taken by Titus, he crucified so many Jews around the city, that Josephus says that space and room failed for crosses, and crosses could not be found in sufficient number for bodies! Reland well remarks, “They who had nothing but ‘crucify’ in their mouths, were therewith paid home in their bodies.”