Jesus: The condemnation-Pt. I

(transition) Now that brings us to our passage tonight, the God given condemnation that Jesus would take on, Pilate is but God’s tool for this, but may we look together at our passage.

The Condemnation Passage (Fulfilling scripture)

John 19:1–3 NASB95

1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; 3 and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.

John 19:4–5 NASB95

4 Pilate came out again and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.” 5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”

John 19:6 NASB95

6 So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”

John 19:7–8 NASB95

7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.” 8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;

John 19:9–10 NASB95

9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?”

John 19:11 NASB95

11 Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

John 19:12 NASB95

12 As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar.”

John 19:13–14 NASB95

13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

John 19:15–16 NASB95

15 So they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.

General thoughts on this passage?

What “things” happen to Jesus (vv.1-3)?

Jesus was scourged

Jesus was crowned with crown of thorns

Jesus was clothed in purple robe

Jesus was mocked

Jesus was slapped (struck)

Who is Pilate addressing, speaking to (vv.4-5)? How do you know?

Jesus was brought by the High Priest, the officers and the crowd to Pilate (Jn18:10, 22, 28)

What was the cry out (v.6) and by whom? What was Pilates response (v.6)?

Crucify Him!

You take Him, you do it yourselves for I find no guilt (this is second time of no guilt claimed by Pilate)

What is the claim of the Jews (v.7)?

He claimed, made Himself to be the Son of God

What did Pilate do (v.8) and how did Pilate react?

Pilate heard what the Jews were saying

Pilate was “more” afraid

Pilate makes a strong claim (v.10), what is it?

I have the authority, your’s may say “power” to crucify you.

Jesus does not argue the point with him, but emphasis where the authority came from (v.11)

Does Jesus say Pilate is guiltless (v.11)? What does Jesus state?

No, he only states that that those who delivered Me has greater sin.

What was Pilates desire (v.12)? and the Jews response?

Pilate looked to release

Jews said if you do, you are not a friend to Caesar

What did Pilate do (v.13)?

He heard

He brought Jesus out

He sat in judgment seat

We have a time marker (v.14) but a day marker which is important, what is the day?

Preparation day for the Passover.

The Jews response to Pilate in (v.15), what was it?

We have no king but Caesar

Finally (v.16), after trying to placate the Jews, to release Jesus what is the end result?

He handed Him over to be crucified

The placating

Pilate already found no guilt in Jesus (Jn18:38) yet in trying to plate the angry mob, Jesus is scourged.

Pilate commanded a severe, brutal punishment of a man he knew to be innocent.

Pilate wanted to help him and release Him (Jn18:39).

Scourging, crowning, mocking and returning to say no guilt found

Scourging as to the custom of the Jews would consist of being whipped with many leather strands having sharp pieces of bone or metal at the ends.

Scourging had three purposes

Used to punish prisoners

Used to gain confessions of crimes from the prisoners

Used to weaken prisoner to be crucified so would die sooner

Barclay says this: “It literally tore a man’s back into strips. Few remained conscience throughout the ordeal; some died; and many went raving made.”

The twisted crown, something meant to humiliate Jesus. He had already been mocked by the Jews (see Mt26:67-68), now the Romans.

Matthew 26:67–68 NASB95

67 Then they spat in His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him, 68 and said, “Prophesy to us, You Christ; who is the one who hit You?”

Jesus had a crown of thorns, a crown of torture not kingship

Jesus was robed in purple was intended as a cruel irony as Guzik states, mocking him as Jewish King when there is no king but Caesar.

They hailed Jesus as king, but it was meant to be a humiliation to Him.

The soldiers Hit him with their hands mocking to simply gratify cruelty and wickedness (Morris)

In Matthew it gives more details (Mt27:29-30)

Matthew 27:29–30 NASB95

29 And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head.

Pilate again finds no fault (third time) and wants to release Him (several attempts; Lk23:4, 15, 20, 22; Jn19:4, 12, 13)

Jesus presented to the crowd

John 19:5–6 GNB

5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look! Here is the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the temple guards saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “You take him, then, and crucify him. I find no reason to condemn him.”

Jesus the beaten, the mocked, the unrecognizable presented before the crowd

Here, here is a man, broken, humiliated, yet the crowd demanded Him to be crucified.

Pilate now in response to the Jews, mocks the Jews by his statement to them.

It was several years before as mentioned in previous message that the Jews could not condemn someone to death, that was taken away from them. Hence why the Jews brought Jesus to the Pilate for him to do what they could not.

“This crown He continued to wear to the end: both Origen and Tertullian, two of the earliest fathers of the Church of east and west, assert that He was crucified with it on his head.”

Spurgeon says “Many a crown has been secured by blood, and so is this, but it is his own blood; many a throne has been established by suffering, ans so is this, but he himself bears the pain.”

Tasker in speaking of the “here is the man” says this:

“The man is contemptuous. Pilate is saying in effect ‘Here he is — the poor fellow. Can you really think that such a caricature of a king is really a danger to Israel or Rome?”

Pilate thought that the humiliation of Jesus being presented to the crowd may placate them, win sympathy for Him, but it did nothing at all.

Maclaren stated: Some pity may have stirred in the crowd, but the priests and their immediate dependents silenced it by their yell of fresh hate at the sight of the prisoner.”

For the third time, Pilate finds no guilt in Him.

What do you find in Jesus? Do you find God’s perfect sacrifice? Do you accept Him for who He says He is? For what He did? For what He promised?