by Adoring God | Jul 21, 2022 | Jesus Christ
“And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!” (Matt. 27:29). How slippery is the nature of popular affection? The crowd now...
by Adoring God | Jul 14, 2022 | Jesus Christ
“And Herod with his men of war set him at naught and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.” (Luke 23:11). To better understand everything that happened between the time of Christ’s arrest in the Garden and his sentence of death...
by Adoring God | Jul 7, 2022 | Jesus Christ
“And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe,” (Matt. 27:28). After the chief priests and pharisees have their fill of persecuting and torturing the Son of God, he is taken to the governor’s palace and turned over to Pilate and his soldiers. Here he meets...
by Adoring God | Jul 1, 2022 | Jesus Christ
“And the whole multitude of them arose and led him unto Pilate,” (Luke 23:1). God takes blasphemy very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that when he was laying the foundation for how his own people should think about him and behave toward him, God...
by Adoring God | Jun 22, 2022 | Jesus Christ
“And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate,” (Luke 23:1). One of the greatest ironies of Christ’s arrest and subsequent death was the fact that it was the Jewish religious leaders who prided themselves in their knowledge of the Old Testament law...
by Adoring God | Jun 16, 2022 | Jesus Christ
“And the men that held Jesus mocked him and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, ‘Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?’” (Luke 22:63-64). Christ’s abusers take great pleasure in torturing him, turning their...
