Missing the Obvious

by | Jun 7, 2020 | Apologetics, Commentaries on the Cross, Gospel of John

John 19:21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,” but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”  Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”  You would think that with their plot finally fulfilled...

Jesus, the True Israel

by | Jun 5, 2020 | Commentaries on the Cross, Gospel of John

John 19:19-20 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.  It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and...

They Crucified Him for Us

by | Jun 1, 2020 | Commentaries on the Cross, Gospel of John

John 19:18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Here at last is the very scene of scenes; it’s the moment that Isaiah wrote of…”But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon...

CHRIST OR CAESAR

by | May 27, 2020 | Apologetics, Commentaries on the Cross, Gospel of John

John 19:15 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.” There is today a general sense, especially in the Western democracies, that personal...

Crucify Him!

by | May 21, 2020 | Apologetics, Commentaries on the Cross, Gospel of John

John 19:13-16 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.  Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover.  It was about the sixth hour.  He said to the...