Good Friday - April 2 2021
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Introduction
Introduction
Triumphal entry. Temple cleansing. Sanhedrin plotting. People listening. Supper partaking. Jesus praying.
The betrayer approaches...
Major Ideas
Major Ideas
Jesus Betrayed
Jesus Betrayed
2 Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples. 3 Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” 5 They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am He.” And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them. 6 So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground. 7 Therefore He again asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,” 9 to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one.” 10 Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus. 11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?” 12 So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,
They had planned to wait, but Judas was willing to hand Jesus over to the religious leaders away from the crowds. In the solitude of Gethsemane they could have Him for only 30 pieces of silver.
But they could only have Him if He let Himself be had.
He could have struck them down with a word.
When He said, “I am”, His divine power sat them down in the dirt.
He could have called on His disciples to fight.
Peter decided to obey in advance the command to fight that he was certain would come from Jesus. Of course, he was told to put his sword away, but Jesus’s disciples were ready to swing for heads even if they only got ears.
He could have called on His Father in Heaven who would’ve put thousands upon thousands of angels at His disposal (Matthew 26:53).
But He would not lose one of His disciples.
And the Scripture had to be fulfilled.
And He must drink every ounce the cup of wrath that would not pass from Him.
So He let them arrest Him and bound Him.
No one takes His life from Him.
He lays it down of His own accord as the sacrifice for our sin.
Jesus Tried
Jesus Tried
53 They led Jesus away to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes gathered together.
55 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any. 56 For many were giving false testimony against Him, but their testimony was not consistent. 57 Some stood up and began to give false testimony against Him, saying, 58 “We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ” 59 Not even in this respect was their testimony consistent. 60 The high priest stood up and came forward and questioned Jesus, saying, “Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?” 61 But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” 62 And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” 63 Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? 64 “You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death. 65 Some began to spit at Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in the face.
28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. 29 Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?” 30 They answered and said to him, “If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you.” 31 So Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law.” The Jews said to him, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death,” 32 to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die. 33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?” 35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” 37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” 38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in Him.
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.” 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!” 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.
The innocent stood before the wicked. The truth stood before liars. They judged the Judge and sentenced Him to death.
Annas and Caiaphas—Father and Son-in-Law; former High Priest and Current—along with the other members of the Sanhedrin who heard the Messianic language of Psalm 110 and Daniel 7 when Jesus described Himself as, “The Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
They should’ve bowed before Him, but they accused Him of blasphemy and beat Him before sending Him on to Pilate.
The King of kings stood before the Roman governor. The Roman governor understood kingdoms in terms of violence, but the Kingdom of Jesus was not a worldly kingdom, and this King had come to testify to the truth.
He testified to the truth about God.
18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
He testified to the truth about man.
19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
He testified to the truth about salvation.
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
And He testified to the reality of judgment.
18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Pilate sought to release Him, but the crowd had been stirred up by the religious leaders who brought Jesus to Pilate— “Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!”
Pilate, perhaps mocking—“Shall I crucify your King?”
“We have no king but Caesar.”
What would we say differently from the crowd?
We too would say, “Crucify Him!” not in hateful rejection but with grateful understanding.
Crucify the begotten God for He came as the Lamb to take away sins through the sacrifice of Himself!
Crucify the Light of the World for He came to pierce the darkness by being pierced Himself!
Crucify the only begotten Son for I believe that He dies on the cross to make me a son of God!
I have no King but Him!
I have no King but Him!
Jesus Crucified
Jesus Crucified
24 And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take. 25 It was the third hour when they crucified Him. 26 The inscription of the charge against Him read, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.” 27 They crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left. 28 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And He was numbered with transgressors.”
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece. 24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My outer garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”
31 Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him; 33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. 36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.” 37 And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”
44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45 because the sun was obscured; and the veil of the temple was torn in two. 46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” Having said this, He breathed His last. 47 Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent.”
He was innocent. But He died to erase our guilt, to atone for our sins—all in fulfillment of Scripture.
His crucifixion between two thieves was in fulfillment of Scripture.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.
The dividing of His garments and the casting of lots for his tunic was in fulfillment of Scripture.
18 They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.
That none of His bones were broken was in fulfillment of Scripture.
This was the command regarding the Passover Lamb.
46 “It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.
12 ‘They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.
This was also the prophecy regarding the Messiah.
20 He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken.
His side pierced was also in fulfillment of Scripture.
10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
But the further fulfillment of Zechariah 12:10 won’t happen until Pentecost when the Spirit of grace and supplication comes upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and they mourn and weep over the One they’ve pierced.
And the full fulfillment of Zechariah 12:10 won’t happen until Jesus comes as Revelation 1:7 describes…
7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.
Do we see Him in our hearts tonight, this One whom we’ve pierced? This One pierced for our transgressions? This One punished to bring us peace?
Do we mourn tonight that it was our sin that caused Him to die according to the Scriptures?
If so, may our mourning lead us to repentance.
Jesus Buried
Jesus Buried
38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body. 39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin who had not consented to crucifixion of Jesus—a good and righteous man—one who had been waiting on the Kingdom of God—a secret disciple of Jesus for fear of His fellow religious leaders.
This was not unreasonable fear—they had just found a way to put Messiah Jesus to death.
But now he gathered up courage (Mark 15:43) and went to Pilate asking for the body of Jesus.
Nicodemus also came. Another prominent Jewish man, a teacher of Israel—He too had been afraid, first coming to Jesus by night asking about being born again (John 3) and now he comes to Jesus just before nightfall on Good Friday to help prepare Him for the tomb.
Jesus is dead.
The time for cowardice is passing away.
The time for courage is dawning.
No more secret discipleship.
No more hiding by night.
In three days, everything changes.
About a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloe wrapping His body.
Laid in Joseph’s own new tomb—a rich man’s tomb—a tomb in which no one had ever been laid.
In three days this new tomb would be empty once again.
Crucifixion Friday today.
Silent Saturday tomorrow.
But Resurrection Sunday is coming in just three days.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Let’s be dismissed in prayer.