John 19:1 "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged Him."

Pilate tried Jesus and could find no fault Him, and then Pilate took and asked the Jews which they wanted released, Jesus or Barabbas the robber and murderer? The Jews which were in large number the Kenite religious leaders chose Barabbas as their favorite, having the mind-set of the father Cain. Though they thought their actions were to do away with Jesus the Son of God, What they meant for Evil, God used for our good. In this suffering and dying of Christ will pay the eternal sacrifice, once and for all for the sins of all that will repent and believe on His name.

As Jesus stood before this Roman governor, Pilate, His countenance and innocence went to the heart of Pilate, and here in John 19 we see that Pilate is still trying to find a way to release of Jesus. Fresh in Pilates mind is the warning from his wife that he was about to judge an innocent man. God gave her that warning in a dream the night before.

Keep in mind just who this group of people is that is trying to kill Jesus. It is the religious order in charge of the temple of that day. It wasn't a group of drunken rough-neck, but the reverends trying to protect their twisted traditions, and the money bag that gave these Kenites a very good living. It was the church of the day that crucified our Lord Jesus Christ, all those of the religious community.

Even today Christians like to call themselves "of Christ" [Christians] until you start to teach the word chapter by chapter, and verse by verse, and then comes out all the parts that they would rather not hear.

Pilate saw the innocence of Jesus, and he felt that with this beating people would feel sorry for him, and call for Jesus release. Usually when a person is beat and tormented publicly, the crowds will take pity on that person. This is obvious that every time a known killer is executed, the bleeding hearts come out of the woodwork and light their candles. They completely forget the laws of God, and the brutality of the victim at the hands of that murderer. Pilate was hoping that these religious leaders would have a changed heart.

John 19:2 "And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe,"

They did this in mockery of Jesus. As these Roman soldiers placed this crown on Jesus head, and put on Him the colors of royalty, this excited these religious leaders all the more. Remember that the "thorns" were the sign of the earth's curse that God had placed upon it after the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:18; "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;"

Why did the religious leaders [the church] have something against Christ? Because He preformed miracles of compassion, He was good, and He did things that mortal man simply cannot do. It was through this and His teaching that these religious leaders became very jealous. Jesus had gone into their temple, and used the very words of their prophets to show their traditions for the fake that it was. He tore up marketing of mite infested birds that was used for their sacrifices in the temple, and showed them that their whole system went against the teachings of Moses. And by raising Lazarus from the dead, undermined the very foundation of their traditions.

The religious leaders did not like Jesus because He messed up their religious play-house. Now when Pilate placed this crown of thorns on Jesus' head, and the robe of royalty about Him, this excited them all the more.

John 19:3 "And said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they smote Him with their hands."

This is the Romans that are in charge of Pilate's court that are doing this to Jesus. Now catch the emotion from Pilates mind here.

John 19:4 "Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, "Behold, I bring Him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in Him."

After Pilate had tried to find some sympathy for Jesus in these religious leaders, by beating and mocking Jesus, and the blood is flowing down from Jesus' forehead from the thorns; Pilate then again stated, "I find no fault in Him." Pilate expected to find some mercy in this religious community, and that they would cry out for justice and to release Jesus.

John 19:5 "Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, "Behold, I bring Him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in Him."

Pilate is presenting Jesus Christ to this mob of churchmen, and as Jesus stood there in the purple robe and crown of thorns, he states: Look at this man, what earthly harm could He cause to you? Pilate has made this as pitiful as he possible can. Pilate tried at least three times to release Jesus, and the religious community would not allow the release.

Friend, Pilate was right, there was no fault in Jesus and that is what made His blood and life the perfect sacrifice. Jesus was the innocent Son of God that went through all of this for you, whereby when you repent you sins are washed away, and blotted out before the heavenly Father.

John 19:6 "When the chief priests therefore and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, "Crucify Him, crucify Him." Pilate saith unto them, "Take ye Him, and crucify Him: for I find no fault in Him."

Notice that this is the religious leaders at the top, the chief priests and officers of the temple, and when they saw Jesus they took no pity on Him. They ordered Pilate to Crucify Jesus, but they did not want the blood on their hands. The question is how can Pilate crucify a man that he has tried three times and found innocent each time. There is no grounds for the killing of the innocent, and Pilate knew this as the governor of Rome. This is why Pilate would release Jesus over to the Kenite, to judge by their laws, and carry out the punishment.

However, there is a problem here, and it is foremost in the minds of these chief priests. The Romans were governing the land of Judaea, and if the priests called for the death penalty, the death would have to be by stoning, and not crucifixion. Crucifixion was the method that the Romans used for execution. Jesus was killed on the Roman cross, and not just a pole, as many today try to say.

Though many try to put the crucifixion of Jesus on the tribe of Judah, it was the Kenites, those sons of Cain that controlled the temple that were the cause of what took place. Though they fulfilled the negative part of God's plan in their evil cause, God used that very act for the good of everyone that came to believe on Jesus name, and repents. When they drove the nails through Jesus hands and feet, they completed the final death sentence on their own father Satan.

John 19:7 "The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God."

This very statement is a lie, because Jesus did not make Himself the Son of God, The Father created the office of Jesus, the Son of God. When you say "Jesus", you are saying "God's [Ja's] Savior". The chief priest lied, for Jesus didn't make Himself anything, for God the Father made the office of the only Begotten Son when the birth took place from the virgin Mary in the town of Bethlehem.

John 19:8 "When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;"

Pilate is seeing how these Kenites are trying to use his own words against him. There is no difference today then what these Kenites did in Pilate's day. The methods of Satan and his children will never change. They take the Word and twist God's word to make it a lie to trip you up. Pilate is starting to see what is happening, and "he was more afraid;".

John 19:9 "And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, "Whence art Thou?" But Jesus gave him no answer."

Pilate is at the point in time where he has to make a decision on the matter. Pilate is a good man, and he had the words of advise given by God to his wife, and he knew that Jesus was innocent. Pilate did not want to crucify an innocent person.

Pilate is at his nerves end, when he went back into the judgment hall, and he turned to Jesus and asked Him again, "What can you say for yourself?" Give me a word, but Jesus would not open His mouth to defend Himself. Jesus did not answer, for in the act of silence Jesus was fulfilling scripture.

Isaiah 53:4 "Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."

Jesus carried our sorrows, of it is only through Him that we have peace of mind, and release from our sins.

Isaiah 53:5 "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed."

Jesus was pierced, beaten, whipped, and mocked so that you and I could have the peace of God within us. Friend, the peace that you can have and find in Jesus name, is not free, for Jesus paid a dear price for you peace. Why? He did it because He loves you. When you have Jesus you will never be all alone, for He is there with you at all times.

Isaiah 53:6 "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:7 "He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth."

This is why Jesus would not answer Pilate. Jesus gave no word of defense for Himself because He was answering for every offence committed by each of us. All sin that were ever was committed was laid upon Jesus at this time. Jesus become the "Passover Lamb" that was slain once and for all times, and that is why there was no sin in Him. If somebody ever says that He had sin, run from that joker.

Pilate was trying to find a way to release Jesus, as this mob outside was screaming for Jesus' blood, yet "Jesus was as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth."

John 19:10 "Then saith Pilate unto Him, "Speakest Thou not unto me: knowest Thou not that I have power to crucify Thee, and have power to release Thee?"

Pilate is asking Jesus, Don't you know how serious this is, I have the power to crucify you, or release you. Pilate just wants a reason to do what ever he is going to do.

John 19:11 "Jesus answered, "Thou couldest have no power at all against Me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered Me unto thee hath the greater sin."

Jesus is saying that there is no power, except that God has ordained it. This is clarified by Paul in Romans 13. Jesus is putting the blame where it belonged for the killing. Who were the ones that delivered Jesus up to Pilate? Judas delivered Jesus to the Sanhedrin, and the Sanhedrin, delivered Jesus to Caiaphas, Annas, the chief priests, and all those Kenites that passed judgment on Jesus took the blame. Those are the ones that will be held accountable for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The church had the greater sin, then did the government that carried out the execution. The religious community had the greater sin, then the soldiers of the political system that held the spear, the whips, and placed the crown of thorns on Jesus head. Yet when Judas had seen the evil act that he had done, he repented in remorse, returned the silver, and the Kenites killed him to keep him silent.

Acts 1:18 "Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out."

Judas was murdered and slit from loin to throat, then while being pushed headlong forward, all his insides came bursting and gushing out. Then he was he taken and hanged by these same religious people that are out for Jesus' blood

Friend, an act like this of cutting Judas up, then hanging him needs much help. In fact the murder of Judas should not be a surprise to anyone after we have seen the great extent that the religious Kenite leaders of the temple went to, to plot the murder of Jesus. After Judas was used they got rid of him, and in the same fashion that they got rid of Jesus. They murdered him. That is the nature and character of the Kenite, just as it was their father Cain. For Cain was the son of Satan, and the first murderer.

John 19:12 "And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release Him: but the Jews cried out, saying, "If thou let this Man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar."

Pilate sought for a reason that he could release Jesus, but the far greater sin fell against the religious community. Can you see how the Kenites are twisting the truth, and using it against Pilate. One lie breeds another, and now they are blackmailing Pilate with the threat of treason against Caesar. There is no way that Pilate can now overlook these religious nuts and murderers that are calling for the death of Jesus Christ. These lying scripture lawyers are threatening Pilate that they will go to Rome, and charge Pilate there with treason against the emperor, if he does not crucify Jesus. It could cost Pilate his own head, and these Jewish Kenite priests knew exactly what to say.

John 19:13 "When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha."

This judgment seat called "the Pavement" is a throne that Pilate ruled from. After Pilate heard the threats from these murderous Kenite religious sorts, he went immediately to his thrown and called Jesus in for judgment.

John 19:14 "And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, "Behold your King!"

It is getting late, for the entire process of this trials: first before the Sanhedrin, then with Annas and Caiaphas, followed by the closed door hearings with those false witness. Then Caiaphas and the temple guards took Jesus to Pilate, so there had been three trials before Pilate heard the case. The time was not midnight but noon, and the threats were getting heavy because the priests were now starting to focus their attention of the Passover feast. By our calendar The crucifixion would have to be completed, and Christ would have to be down off the cross by six P.M. Wednesday, which was the start of Passover.

Pilate is now short in patience, it was late, and the Kenite hounds were nipping at his heels. Jesus is standing in the throne room before Pilate, and in disgust Pilate is telling these Jews, "Behold your King!" Jesus is standing there with blood streams pouring from the crown of thorns, and His whole body covered with the stripes from the beatings Jesus took. Jesus is standing there in that silly purple robe facing Pilate, and waiting for Pilates judgment.

Pilate is pointing out to these Kenites, that Jesus can't hurt anyone. When Pilate said those words, "Behold your King!" he had no idea that to a Jew that meant he was calling Jesus the Messiah, the King of all Israel. He was calling Jesus, God.

John 19:15 "But they cried out, Away with Him away with Him, crucify Him." Pilate saith unto them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."

Poor Pilate still doesn't understand that what he is saying is working the Jewish crowd into a riotous mob. To claim Jesus is the "King of the Jews" means they are killing God, in the minds of the chief priests. These religious Kenite leaders don't claim any Messiah, and especially one that is attacking their man made traditions.

Friend, for Caiaphas this is exactly true. God was not Caiaphas King, for Caesar was. Caiaphas was not a man of God, but a old man holding down a political position, appointed by Rome, and his duty was to keep the peace of the Jews, which were a religious people. They had strayed far from the Laws of Moses, and twisted the truths into a religious form of tradition. Caiaphas was appointed chief priest for strictly money. In fact Caiaphas was appointed his chief priest position by the ruler Valerius Gratus about six months before, and as such he was in that position to keep the religious community in line for Rome.

Are you starting to see the corner that Pilate is in? Keep in mind that everything that does take place was prophesied centuries prior, and every detail was in the control of our heavenly Father. Jesus will become the sacrificial Lamb for all times, and that would be a fact.

John 19:16 "Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away."

Pilate did all he could, even to the threat of his own position, and life. Then in the end, the judgment came and they took Jesus to be crucified.

John 19:17 "And He bearing His cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:"

Jesus has left the palace, and came to the place to pick up His cross. The blood still dripping from the hours of piercing His skull, and His entire body stained and marked from the whipping and beatings that he had. There were people all around him, and the women were crying as they looked upon Jesus mutilated scared body, in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sight. Then Jesus looked over at these crying women and told them something that we should never forget. Jesus was thinking of us today, looking forward to His coming at the second advent.

Luke 23:27 "And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him."

Luke 23:28 "But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."

Luke 23:29 "For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, `Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.' "

Luke 23:30 "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, `Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.' "

Even when Jesus had the death sentence on Him, and the blood drawn from the abuse He had taken, Jesus told these women to weep not for Him, but for their children that would be living in the latter days. Friend the time is coming very shortly when this time of Jesus warning will take place. You will be living in that day.

This is referring to the spiritual blindness that will come upon the entire earth, when the Antichrist shall reign, and his deceptions will cause all except His sealed elect to fall. This will happen just before His coming, and all those that bare, and gave suck had worshipped Satan the Antichrist. Jesus then said, blessed are those that know the truth [are barren], and were not deceived by the Antichrist. They never gave comfort and worship to Satan's religious system.

The religious community in the end times will be as they were in Jesus day, deep in the practice of tradition, and ready to follow after the Kenites doctrine, and claim their father Satan as their own. They will do that because they were taught to do so by tradition, and they will do so in ignorance.

Jesus was thinking of you, even as He carried that cross up the hill to His crucifixion, that He would say, "Blessed are the barren", or those that would stay true even during the times of the great deception.

John 19:18 "Where they crucified Him, and two other with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst."

In the Companion Bible, appendixes 164; there is a discussion of "the "others" crucified with the Lord" as spoken on in Matthew 27:38, and Luke 23:32. In Matthew it states that there were two "thieves", [lestai] in the Greek, which means "robbers". Then in Luke 23:32 it speaks of the two "malefactors" that were crucified with Jesus.

While Mark 15:32 tells us that both the robbers reviled Him, yet Luke 23:39 states that only one of the malefactors "railed on Him". It is also pointed out that the two Malefactors were crucified before the parting of the garments, while it was a while after the parting of the garments that the robbers were crucified.

In John 19:32, and 33: "Then came the soldiers and brake the legs of the first, and the other which was crucified with Him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs."

Had there been only two (one on either side) the soldiers would not have come to the Lord, but would have passed Him, and then turned back again. But they came to Him after they had broken the legs of the first two.

There is much in this study, and when you take the time to read all Scripture relating to this event, you can see that there is no error as higher critics contend from the evidence that was accepted for centuries. There were four others crucified on Calvary Hill when Jesus was crucified. Monuments were put up at Ploubezere near Lannion, in the Cotes-du-Nord, Brittany, known as "Les Cinq Croix" (the Five Crosses).

"In the Roman Catholic church...the altar-slab or `table' alone is consecrated, and in sign of this are cut in its upper surface five Greek crosses, one in the centre and one in each corner...but the history of the origin and development of this practice is not fully worked out" (Encycl. Brit., 11th (Cambridge) ed., vol. i, pp. 762, 763)

John 19:19 "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."

It was customary that when a person was crucified, the charge was written above his head on the cross. It is interesting that even on the cross Jesus was identified as King. This was Pilates last time to get back at the religious leaders that had forced the whole issue, and caused Jesus death.

John 19:20 "This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin."

The place where Pilate had Jesus crucified was visible to the whole city, and where most of the people would pass by on their way in or out of the city of Jerusalem.

John 19:21 "Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, "Write not, `The King of the Jews';' but that He said, I am King of the Jews."

This was Pilates last jab at those Jewish leaders that threatened him. It wasn't a mistake that the sign read as it did, for this is the message that Pilate was telling the world.

John 19:22 "Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Thank God that Pilate wrote the truth. Jesus is the King of Kings and Pilate announced it to the world. Jesus correct title is not King of the Jews, but King of all Israel, Jews included.

John 19:23 "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

This coat was very valuable, and to expensive to tare into pieces. This is why they will cast lots to see who will get the coat. There was a reason why the "coat was without seam", it was because it was a "high priest garment". The high priest garment had no seams because seams collect dust and foreign matter that would make the garment unfit to enter the "holy of Holies". The casting of lots, the seamless garment, even the parting of the under garment, all are the fulfilling of God detailed plan of the ages.

John 19:24 "They said therefore among themselves, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall:" that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, "They parted My raiment among them, and for My vesture they did cast lots." These things therefore the soldiers did."

Do you think this was an accident that these soldiers cast lots for Jesus coat? David prophesied in Psalm 22:18; "They part my garment among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."

John 19:25 "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene."

There were four women close to Jesus standing close to that cross.

John 19:26 "When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, "Woman, behold thy son!"

Jesus saw His mother Mary, and John [the author of this book], the son of His mother's sister Salome. Though this may sound like Jesus was disrespectful of His mother, it is not given in a disrespectful way in the original text. This disciple that He loved was his cousin John, the nephew of His mother Mary.

John 19:27 "Then saith He to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!" And from that hour that disciple [John] took her unto his own home."

Joseph had already passed on to the Father, and now John is assigned by Jesus to take care of His mother. Jesus was telling John to take care of her as though she were your own mother.

John 19:28 "After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, "I thirst."

Jesus is stating that at this point in time all the Scripture from the prophets of the Old Testament has been fulfilled and come to pass. There is a deep significance here. Jesus saw the casting of the lots and knew that all that the Scripture that were foretold were finished and fulfilled. Jesus had accomplished every part of the prophecy that He came to fulfill; Even in His asking for something to drink, He was fulfilling Scripture. In Psalm 69:21 "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in My thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." This also had to come to pass.

Psalm 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."

Their religion should have been for their welfare, but when they turned their worship to the false doctrines and traditions, it became their trap. In defense of their false doctrines and traditions they planned the death of Christ.

This happened in Jesus day, and it will also happen again in these latter days. The very religion they practice, and traditions that they follow will lead them into the trap of the deception of Satan, the Antichrist. Why? Because they are so bound up in their traditions such as the rapture theory, and other acceptable dogma, that they will believe the Antichrist to be the Messiah in ignorance, because they have been taught to do so, just as those Kenite priests had taught the Jews in Jesus day.

John 19:29 "Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth."

This was a poor man's wine and the soldiers meant to wet Jesus lips. Following this act, all prophecy is fulfilled and the conclusion is ready.

John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, "It is finished:" and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.

When Jesus stated "It is finished", He was quoting from the last line of Psalm 22, with the word "Finished" in the Greek text, the same as the Hebrew word "done". This verse suggests that Jesus kept His head erect, until He laid down His live, as was stated in John 10:18

John 10:18 "No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father."

It is clear from Luke 23:44 that the promise that Jesus gave to the malefactor was given before the darkness came. "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. The sixth hour of the day is noon, and the ninth hour is 3:00 P.M.

John 19:31 "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."

In Exodus 12:46; "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof."

The Passover Lamb was not to have a broken leg. There is a perfection to the Word of God, even to the last breath and last Word that is Scriptural, and it give credentials to Jesus, the very Son of God as being our Passover Lamb.

John 19:32 "Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him."

John 19:33 "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs:"

They didn't have to, because Jesus had already "given up the Ghost".

John 19:34 "But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water."

When the soldier ran his spear through the side of Jesus, and into the water sack around the heart, out came both the blood and the water. There has been much discussion of this event by the critics, but what is important for us to remember is that the blood and the water are important parts to our faith in Jesus Christ. They are symbolical of the sprinkling with blood and cleansing with water of the Old Covenant. John writes about this later in I John 5:6.

I John 5:6; "This is He That came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit That beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth."

I John 5:7; "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word [Jesus Christ], and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."

When the blood and the water came forth from Jesus body, it documented truly that life had left the body of Jesus and He was dead. There are many that teach that Jesus wasn't dead when He came off the cross, and was placed in the tomb. However John 19:34 documents completely that Jesus had truly given up the Ghost. It documents that Jesus was pierced through the heart.

John 19:35 "And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe."

"He that saw it" is John the disciple, and the writer of this gospel. He is the cousin of Jesus, the son of Jesus mother's sister. He is also the one compelled by Jesus to take care of Mary upon His death. John wrote it down and is telling you and I that he was there and you can count it as truth.

The purpose of this record is that we can believe in the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus was dead in the flesh, and there can be no doubt about it. Remember from John 11:17 how Jesus brought Lazarus back from the dead after four days; "Then when Jesus came, He found that he had lain in the grave four days already." We will see also that Jesus will also lay in the tomb through the three days, and on the fourth be resurrected from the dead.

We discussed in John 11 that Jesus, like Lazarus must remain in the tomb and exceed the three day period, for the traditions of the Kenite doctrine stated that the spirit never departed the body for three days.

John 19:36 "For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, "A bone of Him shall not be broken."

The Scriptures foretold this in Exodus 12:46, and also in Numbers 9:12 "They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it."

Psalm 34:20 "He keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken." Each of these Scriptures were fulfilled in John 19:36.

John 19:37 "And again another scripture saith, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced."

Here again this verse fulfills Psalm 22:16; "For dogs [enemies] have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: They pierced my hands and my feet."

It is no accident that the Apostle John wove all these Scriptures together, for they all prove the crucifixion. They are the very foundation of our belief and the fulfillment that God does keep His Word. We can count of His Word being true.

Let me call your attention to Revelation 1:7; "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen."

When Christ comes in the second advent every eye will see Jesus Christ coming, even the guard that slapped Jesus. The eyes of those that cried "crucify Him" will look upon Jesus at His return, and the lone soldier that ran the sword through Jesus side when the blood and water came gushing forth. You and I will also behold Him, and many of us will still be in our flesh bodies at that "day of the Lord". However on that day all flesh will be changed in the twinkling of eye into our incorruptible bodies for the Millennium age. What a joyous time that will be.

Most of those that took part in the crucifixion of Jesus, had no idea that they were taking part in the most important event in all the centuries of time of flesh man. They had no idea that what they were doing was fulfilling Scripture, but to them they were doing what the Spirit of God planted in their minds at that time. Each of them did what they did, that Scripture might be fulfilled to the letter.

John 19:38 "And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus."

Many have wondered how this man could approach Pilate and from him get permission to take the body of Jesus. Joseph of Arimethaea was a kinsman of Jesus [His uncle], and held a high position in the governing body of the temple called the Sanhedrin. There is very little history of Joseph of Arimethaea in the Word of God, but there is a great deal of history of his travels at this time.

There is a great deal of history and tradition dealing with Joseph of Arimathaea in England, and around Glastonbury. Joseph was very wealthy from his shipping, and mining business in the Mendip Hills north of Glastonbury. These mines were located near to the sea just south of Bristol. As the "Nobilus Decurio", a Roman position dealing with distribution of raw materials, he was well known by Pilate, and had access to him.

In the book "Traditions of Glastonbury", by E. Raymond Capp, there is a teaching that Joseph, along with a woman and small boy arrived by ship, and lived in the area for several years, and a house was built for the woman and the boy. It is taught that the woman was Mary, and the boy Jesus. The traditions surrounding Glastonbury continue even to this day.

Pilate gave Joseph of Arimathaea the body of Christ because he was the uncle of Jesus, the brother of the mother of Jesus, Mary.

John 19:39 "And there came also Nicodemus, which at that first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight."

This is the same rich man that came to Jesus back in the third chapter, and also sat on the Sanhedrin. Back in John 3:2 Nicodemus to Jesus by night, in secret so none of the other religious leaders would see him. "The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto Him, "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be with him."

However, here we see that Nicodemus is coming in the daylight, and with mixture, or "heligma" in the Greek text which is a roll of myrrh, and aloes, a fragrant aromatic wood.

John 19:40 "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury."

Note that they "wound it [the body of Christ] in linen clothes". This is just like they bound Lazarus when he died. They followed the manner that the people of Judah buried their dead. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea were not Jews by residence, but they were Jews by birth. This word "Jews" has two meanings. The one shows that the person is merely a resident of Judaea, while the other "ioudaios" shows the blood kinship to the tribe of Judah, Benjamin, or Levi, to the House of Judah.

Both Joseph and Nicodemus were of the house of Judah, and not of the Kenites, those leaders that plotted the murder of Jesus, and claimed to be of Judah, but are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan [which is written of in Revelation 2:9, and 3:9].

John 19:41 "Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid."

This calls our attention to Isaiah 53:9; "And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth." Jesus came off the cross with four other wicked, the two robbers and the two malefactors, yet Jesus was buried in a rich mans tomb.

John 19:42 "There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand."

The tomb [sepulcher] was close at hand, and everyone was preparing for the high Sabbath, which was to start at 6 P.M., that Wednesday evening. This was the Passover feast that the preparation was being made ready for.

This would be the very last Passover feast day that would be celebrated by those that put their faith in Jesus Christ, for on the fourth day, when Jesus came out of the tomb, He because our Passover for one and all times. This would be the last and only sacrifice that the Father would accept for the remission of sin for all times.

Paul stated of Jesus in Hebrews 10:7-10:

Hebrews 10:7 "Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me) to do thy will, O God."

Hebrews 10:8 "Above when He said, "Sacrifice and burnt offerings and offering for sin Thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein;" which are offered by the law;"

Hebrews 10:9 "The said He, "Lo I come to do Thy will, O God." He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second."

Hebrews 10:10 "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."

The "will of God" is written down and we call it our Bible, and when Jesus came to earth the first time as a child born of the virgin Mary, it was part of the "will of God" written by the prophets and God gave them words to write. We have seen in the entire book of John that everything Jesus did was to fulfill the will of God, and that extended right to the crucifixion, and death of Jesus Christ.

When Christ died on the cross, then all sacrifices and burnt offerings, and any offering that was given for sin were fulfilled, and ended. From that point in time forward, Christ became the only sacrifice that the Father will ever accept for any sin committed. It is a price paid that only Jesus, the very Son of God could pay, for only He was the perfect sacrifice.

This is why when we repent of any sin, we must add, "in Jesus name" for that is the only credentials that the Father will accept. When we become saved we must believe on that name, for when we say we believe, we are saying that we accept the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that we believe Him to be the very Son of God. We are saying that Jesus arose out of that tome, and ascended to the Father, and now sits on the right hand of the Father as our intercessor.

Friend along with our salvation comes a peace that can only come when the Spirit of the Living God, the Holy Spirit enters us, and puts us at rest.