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John 19:5
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‘Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!’ Look at him! Look at the pitiful state of this man, wounded and bleeding! Do you think this man is a serious challenge to Caesar? You are telling me to execute him because he made himself important and a king and is a dangerous leader of insurrection. Look at him with a mock robe on, with a crown of thorns. You want me to take you seriously and execute him as a danger to Roman authority. That seems to be the mood and the manner in which this is done. But it was to no avail.So first of all you see in these verses the humiliation of Christ. To think that one who created all things should enter in to human form and come to this point where he allowed himself so that he could go to Calvary and be our sin-bearer, he allowed himself to be arrested, humiliated, lashed, made to look pathetic, despicable and foolish.
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What you see there on Calvary’s cross outwardly – the humiliation of Christ – is vastly magnified in his inward sufferings. When God the Father put upon him all the guilt of those who were to be forgiven and saved and punished him instead of us, he had to feel all the humiliation that we deserve. Here we go through life, we reject God, we are so full of ourselves, we are proud, we are heady, we need no God. We can despise him, we can think Christ and the Gospel is foolishness. But one day at the end of life’s journey we die like that, unrepentant, we have to be stripped of everything and humiliated and go into eternity under the judgement of God, made to look so foolish, so pathetic, so absurd. What a Saviour to pay the price for us.
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