He Is Risen
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27:45–56
Matthew made no reference to the time when the crucifixion began.
But Mark indicated that it began at the “third hour” (Mark 15:25 , around 9 a.m.
Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him.
Matthew noted specifically that from the sixth hour, noon, until the ninth hour, 3 p.m., darkness came over all the land.
In this period of darkness Jesus became the Sin-offering for the world (John 1:29; Rom. 5:8; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18 ) and as such was forsaken by the Father.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
The Father had to turn judicially from His Son (Rom. 3:25–26 ).
whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
With one last cry Jesus … gave up His spirit, committing it into the hands of His Father (Luke 23:46).
And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last.
Jesus was in complete control of His life and died at the precise moment He determined by dismissing His spirit.
No man took Jesus’ life from Him, as He had said (John 10:17-1).
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
At the time of Jesus’ death, three momentous events occurred. First, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
This curtain separated the holy place from the holy of holies in the temple (Heb. 9:2–3).
For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary;
and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,
God was showing that the way of access into His presence was now available for everyone, not simply the Old Testament high priest (Heb. 4:14–16; 10:19–22 ).
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
and having a High Priest over the house of God,
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Second, at Christ’s death a strong earthquake occurred, splitting rocks (Matt. 27:51).
Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,
Truly the death of Christ was a powerful, earthshaking event with repercussions affecting even the creation.
A third event mentioned was recorded only by Matthew. The tombs of many holy (righteous) people (v. 52) were opened, probably at a Jerusalem cemetery.
27:54–56
A Roman centurion and other Roman guards were impressed and terrified
Their response was, Surely He was the Son of God! The momentous events of the day struck fear into the soldiers’ hearts.
27:57–61
No known preparation had been made for Jesus’ burial; normally the body of a crucified criminal would simply have been discarded without ceremony.
However, a rich man from Arimathea (a town east of Joppa), named Joseph, asked Pilate … for Jesus’ body.
Joseph, a member of the Sanhedrin, had not agreed with the council’s decision to crucify Jesus (Luke 23:51).
He had not consented to their decision and deed. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who himself was also waiting for the kingdom of God.
Instead he was one who had been looking for the kingdom of God and was a believer in Jesus.
Pilate granted his request, surprised that Jesus was already dead (Mark 15:44–45).
Pilate marveled that He was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him if He had been dead for some time.
So when he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
Joseph was assisted in the burial by Nicodemus (John 19:39; John 3:1–21).
And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
These two men took the body of Jesus and wrapped the body in linen with a mixture of myrrh and aloes, spices used in burial (John 19:40).
Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
This procedure was done rapidly in order to be completed before the Sabbath began at nightfall.