Matthew 27:32-55
(The Message Bible)
The Crucifixion of Jesus
27-31The soldiers assigned to the governor took Jesus into the governor’s palace and got the entire brigade together for some fun. They stripped him and dressed him in a red toga. They plaited a crown from branches of a thornbush and set it on his head. They put a stick in his right hand for a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mocking reverence: “Bravo, King of the Jews!” they said. “Bravo!”
35-40After they had finished nailing him to the cross and were waiting for him to die. Above his head they had posted the criminal charge against him: this is Jesus, the king of the Jews. Along with him, they also crucified two criminals, one to his right, the other to his left. People passing along the road jeered, shaking their heads in mock lament: “You bragged that you could tear down the Temple and then rebuild it in three days—so show us your stuff! Save yourself!
45-46 Around mid-afternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
50But Jesus, again crying out loudly, breathed his last.
51-53At that moment, the Temple curtain was ripped in two, top to bottom. There was an earthquake, and rocks were split in pieces.
54The captain of the guard and those with him said, “This has to be the Son of God!”
The greatest gift that anyone can ever know. He overcame the cross and through His death, died for the forgiveness of man’s sins to make the burden His own. You can either die with Christ through faith and also share in his resurrection, freed from sin at last, or you can die without Christ and go before the judgment seat of God with all your sins completely and permanently attached to you for all time. The Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
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