Jesus' Crucifixion - Part 1 (Mark 15:16-26)
Bob Schultz, April 19, 2015Part of the Gospel of Mark series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
This week we will study Mark 15:16-26 as we contemplate not only the physical agony of the cross, but the mental anguish of Jesus' humiliation at the hands of the Roman soldiers.
We learn great lessons about the pain that Jesus endured even before they nailed Him to the cross - pain that was equally horrendous.
In this passage, we again receive life changing lessons about the sin of man and God's gracious plan to save sinners.
Mark 15:16–26 (Listen)
16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
21 And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 22 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). 23 And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 25 And it was the third hour when they crucified him. 26 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
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