John: Chronicles of the God-Man Part 29
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Let’s pick up the story:
Jesus has washed his disciples feet. He is showing them radical service and explaining that this is radical new love. More than the foot washing, he is about to law down his life for his disciples who will abandon him in his most desperate hour of need.
Despite your shortcomings to serve and follow Jesus, he laid down his life so that you could be in a relationship with him. He pursued you; he called you and he calls you his friend. Even when we fail to hold up our side of the relationship, Jesus never fails. He always comes through. His love and grace have no limits.
Jesus is betrayed by Judas, and is arrested by the Jews. The disciples flee.
So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him. First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
Right after Jesus raises Lazarus, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered and were concerned that if Jesus kept this up, everyone would believe in him, and they would lose what little influence they had in the Roman government.
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.” When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?” Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?” Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
From here, we need to jump to Matthew because John does not give us details of what went on while Jesus was with Caiaphas:
Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’ ” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”
Make no mistake. Jesus claimed to be God.
Your acceptance or rejection of that claim has the full weight of eternity resting on it.
Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover. So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.” This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.
What is this? The irony!
They would not go into the space a gentile was living, yet they plot murder.
They were in the process of committing the most heinous crime ever to be committed in the history of the world.
They condemned to the most brutal of deaths the most innocent man ever to walk the earth.
And they were concerned about being ceremonially unclean for the passover.
The Jews don’t answer the question directly, they answer with snark.
Note: The Jews didn’t have the authority to put people to death.
Jesus said he would lifted up.
Here we see Jesus communicate 3 overarching themes about himself to Pilate: First, that He is indeed a king.
Jesus is king
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over 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 have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
Jesus’ kingdom is more real than any earthly kingdom
Jesus’ kingdom is more eternal than any earthly kingdom
Jesus’ kingdom is superior to all other kingdoms because Jesus is king
Jesus is king
Jesus is true
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
There is so much uncertainty in the world, so much mystery, so much pain and lack of understanding. So ofter our hearts cry out “why God, why?”
There are so many lies about what’s wrong with the world and how it will be fixed...
Jesus words are true.
“WHAT IS TRUTH” - I think this is Pilate’s sarcastic way of say, “whose to say”?
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
Jesus should have been let free, but was condemned
Barabbas should have been condemned, but was let free
Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
Pilate was trying to get him off the hook by beating him, that maybe the Jews would be satisfied with some blood.
Leather whip with bits of metal woven in. These floggings would often kill a man.
The crown of thorns pressed into the head of Jesus.
Thorns represent sin. The sin of man was on Jesus head.
Recall that if is was not for sin, thorns wouldn’t even be in the world.
The curse of man’s sin is literally being pressed into the head of Jesus.
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
Jesus is king
Jesus is true
Jesus is judge
The irony of this entire situation is that Pilate is acting as judge of the one who will ultimately judge every human soul. This is absolutely terrifying.
He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
Pilate tries to rebound by referencing his own earthly authority, but he has no idea that Jesus is a willing sacrifice. That he is giving his life so that a people might have life.
From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 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.” So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus,
The Jews ultimately got what they wanted by threatening to tattle on Pilate to Cesar.
Jesus is king
Jesus is true
Jesus is judge
Jesus died. He was buried.
But he didn’t stay dead. He didn’t stay buried.
Jesus is alive. And he’s coming back.
He’s coming back in glory to judge the living and the dead.
And if you are not covered by his blood, the weight of your sin will be on you.
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.