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- Phillip Thomas: Hey, it's good to see you today. My name is Philip Thomas, Pastor of Journey here in Elgin. And we are continuing our journey through Scripture, a chronological look. We are right in the middle of the climactic ⁓ event of all of Scripture. The whole Old Testament has been about God reaching out to his people, about trying to bring them back into ri ⁓ fellowship with them, ⁓ with him, in a r relationship with him. And now we have Jesus. going to the cross. And so he was arrested. And so now ⁓ he is moving on to his trial with Pilate. So we are going to be in Matthew twenty-seven, Mark fifteen, Luke twenty-three, John chapter eighteen, and also a little bit in John chapter nineteen. So basically read in all the gospels ⁓ up to the crucifixion. But today we'll be talking about the ⁓ case ⁓ the the trial before pilot. So we have ⁓ Jesus being handed over to Pilate. ⁓ w one thing that we see here is where Judas, the one who betrayed Jesus, begins to have doubts. And but it is too late by this time. So in Matthew chapter 27, ⁓ verse three, it says then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that he had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priest, saying, I have sinned and betraying innocent blood. They said, What is that to us? You see to it. So he threw the silver and then he went and hung himself. this was a obviously a tragic scene ⁓ where Judas realizes what he has done, but it is too late and he takes his own life. So ⁓ and then Matthew does ⁓ talk about how they use the silver to go and ⁓ buy some a potter's field, ⁓ and that is from Jeremiah. Zachariah also has that prophecy ⁓ about that happening. So again, with Matthew is constantly connecting ⁓ prophecy in the Old Testament to to Jesus. Then we have Jesus ⁓ facing Pilate and Matthew ⁓ Ver verse eleven, Matthew twenty seven, verse eleven. and basically Jesus doesn't say much. In John he says a little bit more, but he he basically does not respond to Pilate's questions. ⁓ but Pilate asked him, Is are you king of the Jews? Now this is now moved from a religious issue. It was a religious e the issue with the religious leaders, but now it is a political issue, and so The accusation is that, hey, this guy is saying to be king of the Jews. Don't you know that Caesar ⁓ is is king? ⁓ the the religious leaders are playing a interesting and and pretty well thought out political game game here. ⁓ Pilate had had a few issues. There he had ⁓ had a few run ins with the people. There had been some rebellions, ⁓ some tension over his tenure. ⁓ rule as governor. and the last thing he wanted to do was have another one. ⁓ his role was to keep the peace. And so they are threatening that Jesus is a ⁓ a threat to that peace. And that is kind of how they're they're in to get Pilate to do what they want him to do. Now Pilate ultimately makes his own decisions ⁓ but but ⁓ there is definitely a ⁓ a a political game being played. So Jesus does answer and said, It is as you say, but then said nothing. Then Pilate says to him, Do you not hear the things testified against you? But again, does not. So Pilate ⁓ even tries to use a an old custom of releasing a prisoner with Barabbas. And so they ⁓ I I love what he says in verse 18, for he knew that they had handed him over Because of envy. So he knows that this is not on the up and up. There is something about this. But again, he he's trying to keep the peace. So he knew that the religious leaders were not being fully honest with what they were doing. So he tries to give them Barabbas, but Barabbas ⁓ the the people choose Barabbas, a convicted murderer, ⁓ over Jesus. I mean, ⁓ just think about that. You have a convicted murderer. And Jesus and the crowd chooses the release of the convicted murderer. ⁓ it a ⁓ the ⁓ Pilate we see in Matthew, Pilate's wife, tells him, have nothing to do with that man. ⁓ again, just th that there's evidence here that they knew something wasn't right, but they weren't willing to stand up and do what was right. And we ⁓ continue to go on it there in Matthew twenty-seven. he asked the crowd, Who do you want? They start cry ⁓ saying, Barabbas. The pilot says, What shall I do with the one called the Christ? They said, Let him be crucified. What evil has he done? But they cried out all the more saying, Let him be crucified. This is a good sign whenever you see mob mentality ⁓ take hold. It is very dangerous. And and what what happens here is Pilate is still trying to ask rational questions. Hey, what okay, you want him crucified. What has he done? What do they do? They just yell crucify him louder. ⁓ I I would just ⁓ as a kind of a modern example, ⁓ don't ever be associated with a crowd or a group that will not answer questions but will just shout louder. That typically does not go well and usually you're not on the side of truth. ⁓ I won't make a blanket statement there, but yeah, ⁓ because I haven't done all the research on crowds shouting down and not answering questions. ⁓ but that's usually not a good sign ⁓ when that happens. And it certainly wasn't here. This people more than likely that were part of this crowd. We're also part of the crowd just a few days before as Jesus was entering into Jerusalem, who would have been sh ⁓ saying Hosanna ⁓ and waving palm branches, ⁓ how quickly things can can can turn. And this is again why you you need to have principles and belief in what is true, not just on what you feel. ⁓ if you just go by the emotion of the moment you will you you will move from One perspective to another, ⁓ we need to seek to find what is true. ⁓ Then verse twenty four, when Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult a tumult was rising, ⁓ he took water, washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this person, you see to it. So what what do we have here? We have ⁓ Pilate again recognizing, hey, I'm losing control of this, I'm not gonna win it. So I'm just washing my hands of it. So then he had Jesus scourged. ⁓ Mark fifteen talks about the same ⁓ trial ⁓ before ⁓ Pilate. we have a little bit more ⁓ details on Barabbas, ⁓ that he was ⁓ committed murder in a rebellion, ⁓ but yet they still let him go. ⁓ Luke twenty-three, where Jesus again is brought before Pilate. ⁓ verse two says, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king. You see how all of that is really political. ⁓ it is trying ⁓ to to pit Jesus against Caesar, that he really is against Rome, which is just so crazy because the religious leaders were against Rome too, but now it suited them, and so they were using that. ⁓ the Luke shows that Pilate tried to get ⁓ make Herod make a decision here because Jesus was from ⁓ Galilee, ⁓ but Herod just made fun of Jesus and sent him back to Pilate. ⁓ Pilate then of course sentences him to ⁓ be crucified. ⁓ then John 18, ⁓ starting in verse 28, ⁓ you have ⁓ John's account of Jesus being with Pilate. Jesus interacts a little bit more ⁓ in in John. Says, I love this in verse 29 of chapter 18 of John says, Pilate then went out to them and said, What accusation do you bring against this man? They answered him, If that he were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered him up to you. Again, A very politically savvy answer, not answering the question. Right? ⁓ so what what do you mean? If would we have brought him here if ⁓ he hadn't done something wrong? So then you you continue on, says ⁓ Pilate is ⁓ again continuing to talk to to Jesus, saying, Are you the king? He said ⁓ Jesus says, You're right when you say I'm a king, for this cause I was born and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of this truth hears my voice. Pilate says, What is truth? ⁓ what a wonderful question. And of course, remember in that day there were well there were considered to be lots of truth, right? There were lots of different gods. So you had lots of different truth. ⁓ but Jesus responds, ⁓ I am truth. And so you see Pilate is ⁓ trying to to answer that question. ⁓ then ⁓ you have the sentencing to crucifixion, ⁓ Matthew 27, ⁓ Mark ⁓ starting in verse 27, Mark 15, starting in verse 16, and then in John chapter 19. ⁓ in all of these Jesus is also hit and spat upon and mocked. ⁓ this is just ⁓ brutal. ⁓ the scourging is so much more brutal than just a one sentence that would have been ⁓ extremely ⁓ painful and destructive, tearing away of Jesus' flesh. This was truly a barbaric act that Jesus was going through, that he was enduring ⁓ for us. And John ⁓ chapter nineteen kind of continues this process on again showing more Pilate trying to get the crowd to to change, but ⁓ but things are ⁓ have already ⁓ spun out of control. See in verse twelve, John chapter nineteen, from then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying if you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. Then the chief ⁓ Pilate said to them, Shall shall I crucify your king? then the chief priest answered, We have no king but Caesar. Isn't that amazing ⁓ that flip ⁓ how people will go against their principles and what they believe ⁓ when they feel their power ⁓ being attacked. ⁓ that's it tr truly is a ⁓ an amazing scene ⁓ that we we have here in John chapter nineteen. ⁓ I wan I want to stop there. We're we're just over ten minutes anyway, ⁓ but ⁓ just just think about that you know and kind of reflect a little bit ⁓ on what Jesus is enduring for us. He hasn't even been crucified yet, but he's already gone through and been mocked, been spat upon, been beaten, been scourged, ⁓ been ⁓ lied about, ⁓ convicted unjustly. ⁓ he has gone through all of that for us. And so when we get together again, ⁓ we will talk about his crucifixion, the the sayings of Jesus as he is on the cross, and then ⁓ we will look at the resurrection. We will see you all.