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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "FROM THENCEFORTH PILATE SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Pilate was convinced of His innocence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We are told that he knew that Jesus was delivered to him because the religious leaders were envious of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He knew that Jesus had done nothing worthy of death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. But the Jews cried out saying, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is the statement that turned the tide.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Pilate knew that they would complain to Caesar should he release Jesus, and that they would make their false charges to Caesar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Pilate's job was on the line.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He has to make the choice to be loyal to his convictions or to lose his position.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Many Christians are faced with the same situation. To remain on their jobs, they are being required to deceive, or to cheat a customer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Some of you have had to make that decision, so you can understand the position Pilate was in.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Pilate bowed to the pressure of the crowd.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called the pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The decision has been made, now all that is necessary is to make it formal.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It may have been the seat of judgment, but it was surely not the seat of justice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There is often no justice in the judgments that are made.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "IT WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. There is something that has bothered me for many years. How could Jesus be crucified on Friday, and be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, and still be risen early Sunday morning?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. At most, He could have only been in the grave two nights, Friday and Saturday.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Where was the idea developed that He was crucified on Friday?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We are told that the day that He was crucified was the day of the preparation for the Sabbath.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. They wanted to hasten the death of the prisoners so that their bodies would not be hanging on the cross on the Sabbath.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. <a onClick="return mV('Mar',16,1);">Mark 16</a> tells us that when the Sabbath was past, the ladies came early in the morning to take care of the body of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. I would like to suggest a possible answer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sir Robert Anderson in his book, "The Coming Prince" goes to great length to prove that what we commonly term Palm Sunday took place on April 6th, 32 A.D. He said that it equated, that year, with the 10th of Nisan on the Jewish calendar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. This means that the 15th of Nisan would have been on Friday.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In <a onClick="return mV('Num',28,16);">Numbers 28:16</a>, it declares that the 14th day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. That would have been then on Thursday. That was the day that the Passover lamb was then slain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Remember that the Jewish day begins with sundown, thus, it is possible that Jesus had the last supper with His disciples on Wednesday night.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. We must remember that the Lamb was slain the day before the Passover.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. It was the night after the slaying of the lamb that the blood was put on the door posts and the angel of the Lord passed through the land to slay the first born.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. But that night would have been the beginning of the next day.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. <a onClick="return mV('Num',28,17);">Numbers 28:17</a> declares, "And on the 15th day of this month is the feast.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. <a onClick="return mV('Num',28,25);">Numbers 28:25</a> then declares that the 7th day would be a holy convocation or a Sabbath day.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">h. Notice that in verse 31, John tells us concerning this day that it was a high day.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I suggest that it is possible that Jesus had the supper with His disciples on Wednesday night which would have begun the 14th day of the first month. That He was crucified on Thursday, the day that the passover lamb was to be slain, still the 14th until sundown.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. That He spent Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night in the tomb, and rose early on the first day of the week.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. That in this particular week with the 10th of Nisan falling on Sunday, you would have had consecutive Sabbath days, one on Friday, the 15th of Nisan, which would have been designated the holy day of convocation, or the high day, and then the regular Sabbath day on Saturday.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Having said all of that, it really does not make that great a difference what day of the week it might have been, the fact that matters is that He died on the cross for our sins.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. We can look at the cross from five viewpoints:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. From the viewpoint of God, the cross was the propitiation for sin. There the full holiness and justice of God was satisfied, and now God can forgive man's sin without violating His justice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. From the viewpoint of Jesus it was an act of obedience unto the will of the Father. Becoming a sin offering and giving Himself as a sacrifice for man's sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. From the standpoint of the believer, it was substitution. He was there for me, the just for the unjust. God made Him to be sin for us, that we might receive the righteousness of God through Him. He was there in my place dying the death that I deserved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. From the standpoint of Satan: a victory as he bruised the seed of the woman, but his ultimate defeat as through His death, he destroyed him that had power over death, even the devil. There He spoiled the principalities and powers that are against us making an open display of His victory, triumphing over them through it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. As far as the world is concerned, it was an unjust brutal murder.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. John tells us that it was about the sixth hour.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Mark's gospel tells us that at the third hour Jesus was crucified.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Mark began the hours with the daylight which was at six in the morning, so that the third hour would be at nine in the morning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. John is writing his gospel for the Gentiles, that is why he would often interpret the Hebrew words that He used, or give to you the Hebrew word. He then used the Roman accounting of time, which began at midnight.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. It is possible that this judgment was passed at six in the morning, and that in getting all of the issues formalized, and the time it took to prepare the crosses and pass through the streets of Jerusalem and pass through the gate and up the hill to Golgotha that three hours would have transpired.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. The Jews were up all night and it is quite possible that they wanted to get the issue before Pilate very early before any of the populace knew what was going on, so that a judgment may be made, and carried out before the majority of the people even knew about it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "AND HE SAITH TO THE JEWS, BEHOLD YOUR KING."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. I think that he did that with anger toward them knowing that they had gotten the better of him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It was in a sneering way.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. At this point Jesus was already unrecognizable as a human being, so vicious was the abuse that he received both from the officers of the high priest and the Roman soldiers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He was probably a very sight.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Pilate and the crowd were at great odds at this point, there was a total loss of control and order.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They respond with screaming, "Away with Him, away with Him."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Again, I believe that Pilate answered with a sneer, "Shall I crucify your king?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. "We have no king but Caesar."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is bitter debate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The sensitive point with the Jews was his insistence that Jesus was the king of the Jews.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The sensitive point with Pilate was the mention of Caesar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What a horrible confession this is.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Earlier in their history they came to Samuel and demanded that he appoint a king to rule over them that they might be like the other nations.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God spoke to Samuel and told him not to feel so bad, they had not rejected Samuel from ruling over them, but they had rejected God from ruling over them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Now they are doing the same thing. They would prefer to bow their knee to Caesar than to the Son of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. The day will come when they shall bow their knee, however.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Earlier they had said to Jesus in <a onClick="return mV('Jhn',8,33);">John 8:33</a>, "We are the defendants of Abraham, and were never in bondage to any man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. How they change their tune when it is to their advantage.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They are seeking to taunt Pilate even as Pilate had taunted them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. We must note, however, that Pilate got in the last word, for he had the accusation of Jesus placed above Him on the cross written in three languages, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. When they saw that they were incensed, and came to him demanding that he altar it too, "He said that He was the king of the Jews."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Pilate's answer was, "What I have written, I have written."</div>
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