Jesus Sentenced To Death
13 Apr 2017 | 2 min readsermon2017subang | trial
-Before Jesus was sentenced to death, he underwent six rounds of judgment
-Serving of judgment may sometimes be frustrating with crooks having at times being able to walk away freely
-And those who condemned Jesus wanted to prove that they were righteous in their own right
-John 18: 12-13 This was the first judgment of Jesus. He was bound at the Garden of Gethsamene.
-Jesus was bound in a manner that prisoners and sinners would have been treated – they had even gone after Him with swords
-Now although the soldiers came barging in with their weapons, Jesus told His disciples to resist the arrest.
-Jesus even went on to heal one of his captors who had cut open his ear. -It was also recorded that when Jesus proclaimed Himself as Jesus of Nazareth that the soldiers fell back- it was an unexpected move
-One of His closest disciples, Peter had also denied Him three times.
-All these were the sequence of events that led to the judgment of Jesus -The first judgment was attended by elders, scribes and members of the court.
-John 18: 24 -This explains the second judgment of Jesus – He was brought before Caiaphas (a high priest)
-It was here that Peter denied Jesus and additional two times (verse 25-27). Peter bear false testimony against Jesus. -The Third Judgment (Verse 28) -Jesus was then led to Pilate in the Court of the Romans -The previous two were held in the court of the Jews – usually the romans wouldn’t interfere with the judgment of the Jews
-So why was it that Jesus was brought to the Court of Roman – it was because court of Jews weren’t allowed to put a death sentence.
-Verse 29-31 -The Jews then claimed Jesus as a criminal before Pilate -Pilate insisted that this was out of his jurisdiction, it should have been under the law of Jews.
-But the Jews wanted to execute Jesus
-Let us also take note that the same Jews who wanted to execute Jesus did not enter the palace to meet Pilate; they wanted to be able to attend the Passover (the place was unclean) – it was hypocritical of them to proclaim to be safeguarding their spiritual faith when they themselves wanted blood
-Luke 23: 1-4 -Their accusation of Jesus was that He opposed the payment of taxes. It was a clear message that they wanted to test the teachings of Jesus or more likely, to corner Him -Now Jesus did not explicitly preached to not pay taxes but in fact mentioned to pay Caesar what he is due.
-The accusation brought against Him was baseless
-The Fourth Judgment (Luke 23: 6-12) -When Pilate found out that Jesus was a Galilean, he was then sent to Herod (He would have fallen under Herod’s jurisdiction) -But Herod merely wanted to see Jesus perform miracles – he was corrupt and abused his authority
-We shouldn’t base our faith in the Lord solely with the intention of experiencing signs and miracles
-Now Pilate and Herod weren’t exactly in the best of relationships either but because for a common interest (to punish Jesus) they were willing to form an alliance -Luke 23:15 -Pilate and Herod couldn’t find any evidence of the accusations made by the Jews.
-However, Pilate still wanted the buy-in of the public or in this case, the Jews. Therefore, he insist that he would punish Jesus first before releasing Him.
-At one point, Pilate had to even plead to the crowd three times that Jesus was undeserving of the death penalty as He was an innocent man – however, it was futile; the crowd wanted to shed His blood
-It was a case of the voice of the public overthrowing the decision of a top justice official. Eventually, Pilate gave in to the demand of the crowd and released Jesus to them and to do as they please.
-Jesus then had to endure a series of punishment and to add salt to injury, He had to carry the cross on His own of which would be used for His crucifixion
-Would have we at that point in time helped Jesus to carry the cross?
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