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The Crucifixion of the Lord Jesus In this text, I will highlight a few events, which took place before the Crucifixion, and also how the Crucifixion occurred. The Lord Jesus Messiah was crucified on Calvary for the sake of the sins of mankind, including your and my sins. Through the blood, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Messiah, our sins are forgiven, we are released from the slavery of sin, and we get a new life as children of God. The majority of people here on earth have heard about the Crucifixion and death of the Lord Jesus Messiah, but only a minority of all the people here on earth have understood what the crucifixion and death of the Lord Jesus Messiah means. For many, the Crucifixion and death of the Lord Jesus Messiah is just a story among other stories. When we study the suffering, crucifixion and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Messiah, we see the largest and most significant salvation throughout the entire history of the world, and an event through which we can receive eternal salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Messiah. You have the opportunity to have your sins forgiven and receive a new, eternal life in the Lord Jesus Messiah. Through the suffering and love of the Lord Jesus Messiah, the beauty of Biblical salvation and the significance of the death of the Lord Jesus Messiah on the cross can open up to you in a new way, which can lead you into salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Messiah.
Contents:
Drops of blood
Luke 22:
The suffering of the Lord Jesus
Messiah started from the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke says that when Jesus
was in great pain, and when He was praying more and more fervently, His
drops of sweat on the ground seemed like drops of blood.
In medicine, there is a
phenomenon called hematidrosis (hematohidrosis) which is a very rare
condition where people experience extremely powerful mental pain or
immense fear when facing their death.
When a powerful expansion of
blood vessels takes place in thin blood vessels under the skin, reaching
contact with millions of sweat glands in the body, blood mixes with
sweat (hematidrosis). This phenomenon causes drops of blood on the skin,
and when sweating is extensive, the drops of blood fall off from the
person's body onto the ground.
I do not believe that the Lord
Jesus Messiah feared his death, which was near. Why did the Lord Jesus
Messiah experience the hematidrosis phenomenon in Gethsemane?
Isaiah 53:
The Bible teaches us that the
Lord Jesus Messiah had to suffer for the sins of the entire world. The
Lord Jesus Messiah knew that he had to carry the punishment for the sins
of the entire world. This is why Jesus sweated drops of blood in
Gethsemane because He knew He would have to suffer and carry the sins of
the entire world. The Lord Jesus Messiah knew what was expecting Him:
suffering through crucifixion, and punishment for sins, the sins of the
entire world, also for the sake of your sins. It is no wonder that He
sweated drops of blood.
According to medicine, the
"blood sweating" phenomenon indicates immense mental suffering and pain.
Before the crucifixion, the Lord Jesus Messiah went through a very rare,
mentally painful process, i.e. "blood sweating" because He loves you and
carried the punishment for your sins.
Judas Iscariot deceived the Lord
Jesus Messiah for thirty pieces of silver. The deception took place with
a kiss on the cheek because as the mark of his deception, Judas had
agreed that he would kiss the person (Jesus) who should be captured.
The path of the Lord Jesus
Messiah to the cross at Calvary started from the garden of Gethsemane
where one of his disciples betrayed and deceived Him. The price of the
deception was thirty pieces of silver. The betrayal by Judas shows the
approach of many people towards Jesus: they love earthly mammon, pretend
to believe in Him but do not believe in Him in their hearts, but deceive
Him because of money, pride and fear of people.
Judas repented (metamelomai)
and took the thirty pieces of silver back to the high priests and
elders. After that, he went away and hung himself. Judas repented his
deed, but the word in the original text, metamelomai, refers to
sorrow for something you have done and you wish that you would not have
done it. The word appears six times in the New Testament, but none of
the instances refers to actual repentance, to turning to God, and to
saving faith. The regret shown by Judas was sorrow and feeling hurt, but
he did not repent, seeking God's forgiveness for his sins, and that is
why he was not saved.
The hearts of many people focus
on worldly mammon and pride. The same thing happens to them as happened
to Judas (they are not saved) because the mammon of this world was of no
use to the salvation of their soul: you cannot buy salvation through
money.
Actual repentance always leads a
person to contrition, repentance and, through faith in the Lord Jesus
Messiah, to the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. In this text, I
will next address the things the Lord Jesus Messiah had to experience so
that you would be saved through repentance and through faith in the Lord
Jesus Messiah.
The Lord Jesus Messiah was taken
to be interrogated by the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin comprised of the
chief priest and other heads of the priests, the elders, Sadducees and
scribes. The Sanhedrin interrogated the Lord Jesus Messiah three times.
The Bible says that God calls for people and gives them two and three
times of visitation so that people could find salvation in God.
Religious leaders did not
recognise the Messiah Lord Jesus Messiah which is why they walked past
the kingdom of God and past salvation given by God. The members of the
Sanhedrin were theologians and Bible "experts" of the time, but they
still failed to recognise salvation given by God, the Messiah Lord Jesus
Messiah because they had invented traditional religious rules for
themselves, through which they revoked the teaching of the Word of God
(Bible) in their hearts.
In modern times, there exists
the same situation that many theologians believe in and hold on to
traditional religious rules, which is why they are outside the kingdom
of God. That is why the theologians, through their false teachings,
deceive people away from the truth of the Word of God (the Bible).
The Bible teaches us that faith
in God is based on hearing the Word of God. People cannot be saved
through traditional religious rules. People must be saved in person by
believing in the Lord Jesus Messiah as the Bible teaches.
Pilate was the Prefect of the
Roman province of Judaea, the Roman Caesar's governor. Jesus stood
accused in front of Pilate. Jews blamed Jesus for inciting the crowd,
for refusing to pay tax to the Caesar and for calling Himself the
Messiah, the king. The Lord Jesus Messiah was and is the Messiah and the
King of Kings. The other accusations were lies and falsification.
Pilate asked Jesus: "Are you the
king of the Jews?" To that, Jesus replied: ”You have said so”, which
means that the answer was affirmative. The question posed by Pilate was
secular and political, and the reply by Jesus was spiritual from the
perspective of the kingdom of God. Pilate had no idea that on the Great
day of Judgment by God, the parts of himself and Jesus will be exchanged
so that Jesus will be the Judge with His Father and Pilate will stand
guilty before them because of sin. Pilate sent the Lord Jesus to
King Herod.
Pilate was a high official of
the State of Rome; he was in an important political and secular position
in society. If you are involved in politics and operate responsibly when
taking care of the business of people in society, you cannot reach the
kingdom of God through politics despite the fact that you can achieve
very important things through politics but you cannot be saved into the
kingdom of God through politics.
The purpose of politics and
taking care of secular matters is to provide citizens with good and fair
conditions in society, but you cannot be saved into the kingdom of God
through politics and secular matters, not even when you take good care
of the matters of society. The only possible way of being saved into the
kingdom of God is to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah.
For a long time, Herod had
wanted to see Jesus because he had heard of Him and of the miracles He
had performed. When Herod got to meet with Jesus, he wanted to see Jesus
perform a miracle. Herod also posed questions to Jesus, but He did not
answer them.
When the Lord Jesus Messiah did
not perform any miracles and did not answer the questions posed by
Herod, Herod and others started to mock Jesus and sent Jesus back to
Pilate. Many people only want to experience miracles and nice spiritual
experiences. If a person only wants to experience miracles and does not
want to repent their sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah, the
same thing will happen to the person as happened to Herod, who did not
establish any kind of connection to Jesus.
The behaviour of Herod also
shows one unfortunate aspect. When a person approaches Jesus through a
false motive and does not get any response, the person, disappointed,
may start to mock Jesus and matters of faith. You can really establish a
connection with the Lord Jesus Messiah but that requires that you repent
your sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah.
During Passover, the
tradition was that one prisoner was released. The Bible teaches us that
Pilate knew that religious Jewish leaders gave Jesus to him because of
envy. Pilate offered Jesus and Barabbas to the Jews, asking them whom
they wanted to be released. The religious leaders incited the crowd to
be against Jesus, demanding that Barabbas be released. Due to the
incitement by the religious leaders, the crowd chose that Barabbas be
released.
Pilate asked what he should do
to Jesus, whom the Jews mocked by saying that he is the king of the
Jews. As a result of the incitement by the religious leaders, the crowd
yelled: Crucify him! Pilate asked them: Why? What evil has he done? The
crowd yelled even harder: Crucify him!
Pilate also said that he did not
find any fault in Jesus and asked the Jews to themselves crucify Jesus.
Religious leaders replied to Pilate that according to the law, Jesus
must die because he has made himself the Son of God. When the crowd
yelled to Pilate that he is not the friend of the Caesar if he releases
Jesus, Pilate said to this to the Jews concerning Jesus: Behold your
King! The crowd yelled: Away with him, away with him, crucify him!
Pilate asked them: Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests
answered: We have no king but Caesar. Pilate was afraid and handed Jesus
over to be whipped and then crucified.
Because the religious Jewish
leaders had revoked the Word of God (Bible) in their hearts and believed
in and adhered to traditional religious rules of people, they did not
recognise the Messiah Lord Jesus, the Saviour. That is why they
chose the Roman Caesar and human wisdom, to their damnation.
If you are now a religious
leader, a highly educated theologian and have revoked the Word of God
(truth) in your heart and chosen human wisdom and religious traditions
instead, you cannot be saved into the kingdom of God. You need to
repent, abandon the path of lies and believe unto the Lord Jesus Messiah
as the Bible teaches, so that you can have your sins forgiven and you
can be saved into the Kingdom of God.
If you are a person who has
believed in the teachings of highly educated theologians on traditional
religious rules and human wisdom, you cannot be saved into the Kingdom of
God because you have been betrayed and deceived into believing lies and
false doctrines. You need to repent, abandon the path of lies and
believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah as the Bible teaches, so that you can
have your sins forgiven and you can be saved into the Kingdom of God.
The crowd chose that Barabbas be
released instead of the Lord Jesus Messiah due to the incitement by the
religious leaders. The Lord Jesus Messiah, Holy, Sinless and Innocent Son
of the True God was the object of the deepest insults and contempt
because religious fervour and lies captured the hearts of people and
they chose Barabbas, a rebel and a murderer as a better option than
Jesus.
When lies betray the hearts of
people, they have been deceived by sin and they choose the filth of sin
over the love, grace, truth and holiness of the God of the Bible. The
lies of sin bring pride and contempt in the hearts of people towards the
Lord Jesus Messiah and the truth of the Word of God. Do not let sin and
lies deceive you, but choose forgiveness of sins through faith in the
Lord Jesus Messiah.
The Lord Jesus Messiah had been
captured in the garden of Gethsemane like a "criminal" even though
He
was sinless and innocent. The Lord Jesus Messiah was taken to be
interrogated by the chief priest, the priests, elders and scribes, after
which He was taken to Pilate.
Pilate had the Lord Jesus
Messiah
whipped. According to the Roman custom, Jesus was whipped on a pole or a
pillar. The whipped person was often stripped naked and the person's
hand was tied (on a pole). The whip had three (six or nine) or more branches with
sharp bone and metal pieces and sometimes even pieces of glass. Due to
the whipping, strips of flesh fell off the human skin, and sometimes the
blood vessels and intestines appeared. Already the whipping was so
horrible that some died during it and other even lost their sanity
during it.
The Jewish law allowed for 39
whip strikes. It is not known for certain whether the number of strikes
on Lord Jesus Messiah exceeded the limit. The back of the whipped person
was at the person using the whip and when the whip cut the skin of the
person, the leather lines on the whip, with bone or metal pieces, curled
around the body of the whipped person. The whip was struck at full force
onto the shoulders, back and feet of the whipped person. As the strikes
continued, they tore and cut open the deeper tissue underneath the skin.
As a consequence, there was serious bleeding through the blood vessels
of the muscles.
The small pieces of metal or
bone at the end of the whip resulted in larger, deeper wounds and
bruises as they again and again protruded deeper into the body of the
person at every strike. The result was horrifying because the whipping
caused long pieces of skin to hang outside the body, and the muscle
tissue was bleeding.
Blood ran down onto the ground
from the whipped person's body, forming a pool of blood under the
person. The energy of the whipped person are gone, and the person is
extremely weak, dizzy and nauseous. After the whipping, the person's
body is trembling and the person no longer remains on their feet. That
is why whipped people were tied, or they would have fallen into their
own pool of blood.
In this horrifying way, the Lord
Jesus Messiah was whipped. Remember that the Lord Jesus Messiah was
sinless, innocent and blameless and that He was whipped because of your
sins. The Lord Jesus Messiah suffered immense pain caused by whipping
because He loves you and wants to save you and release you from the
slavery of sin.
After the Lord Jesus Messiah had
been whipped, the soldiers took Him into the palace, to the praetorium
of the Roman governor Pilate. They summoned more soldiers there, mocking
Jesus by hailing Him as the King of the Jews in a sneering way. The
soldiers clad Jesus in a purple robe. They made a crown of thorns (which
mockingly illustrated the crown of a king) and placed it on the head of
Jesus. The soldiers put a reed stick in the right hand of Jesus. The
purpose of the stick was to mockingly illustrate the sceptre of a king.
The soldiers mocked Jesus and
clad Him "in the king's clothes" because purple (flaming red) was the
king's colour and the king wore a crown and had a sceptre in hand. The
soldiers sneeringly knelt down before Jesus and mocked Him. They also
spat on Jesus and hit Him on the head with the reed stick.
The long, sharp thorns dug bit
into the head of Jesus, causing extensive bleeding. The insolence and
pride of man against the God of the Bible made the soldiers perform this
horrifying, violent mockery, which targeted the Lord Jesus Messiah.
When people are slaves of sin
and deceived by lies, they can act as sneeringly as the soldiers did.
When the heart of a person has been blinded by lies, they do not see the
brightness, love, holiness and truth of the Lord Jesus Messiah. That is
why the slaves of sin mock Jesus, the truth of the Word of God, and the
disciples of the Lord Jesus.
If you are a mocker and despise
the truth of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Messiah submitted to be mocked and
cruficied so that your sins would be forgiven when you repent and
believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah. On the Final Day of Judgment,
mockers will stand before God the Almighty Father and the Lord Jesus
Messiah where they no longer can mock but will be judged because of their
sins. Therefore, humble yourself, repent and believe in the Lord Jesus
Messiah so your sins are forgiven and you receive eternal life.
When the soldiers had mocked the
Lord Jesus Messiah enough, they took Him to Calvary to crucify Him. The
condemned person had to carry their cross themselves to the place of
execution. The cross carried by the condemned was the cross-beam
(patibulum) of the cross which was placed on the post, which was already
waiting at the place of execution.
The oridinal text of the Bible
uses two words for "cross", xulon for the post, and the cross
stauros which the condemned person had to carry. According to the
Bible and historic evidence, the condemned did not carry the long post,
but the patibulim (stauros).
Jesus had to carry the cross
(patibulum) for about 600 metres. The patibulum weighed almost 60
kilograms. After the whipping, the Lord Jesus Messiah was in a very poor,
weak condition. Weakened by the horrible torment, He had to carry a
weight of 60 kilos on His back, walking barefoot on the hard road,
covered by rocks, up to the hill of Calvary. Jesus experienced
incredibly intense pain and suffering due to the whipping and despite
that, He had to continue, carrying an additional weight of 60 kilos,
taking steps towards Calvary, the place where He would be crucified.
Weakened by the torture, it was extremely difficult for Jesus to carry
His cross. Jesus had been weakened by the cruel whipping. As a
consequence, the soldiers forced Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross of
Jesus.
The cross was carried publicly
in front of the crowd because on the way to Calvary, the sides of the
road was full of people. The person carrying the cross had been
convicted to death and the person went on a journey from where there was
no return anymore because the destination was death. The purpose of the
cross was to bring death, that is, to kill the cross-bearer.
The Lord Jesus Messiah suffered
because of your sins and mine. Every heavy, painful step towards the
execution site at Calvary led closer to the place where the Lord Jesus
Messiah atoned for sins through His blood, death and resurrection. The
Lord Jesus Messiah loves you and me, and He submitted to be tortured and
mocked so that people would have the opportunity to receive forgiveness
of sins. The Lord Jesus Messiah voluntarily went to His death because He
loves you, so that your sins would be forgiven when you repent and
believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah.
When Jesus reached the place of
crucifixion, His clothes were removed. Blood was all over the body of
Jesus and the strips of skin had clung to the fabric of His clothes. In
accidents, where people have been seriously injured, so that their
broken skin touches their clothes, the person is often anesthetized so
that their clothes can be removed because in such cases, removing the
clothes causes extreme pain to the seriously injured person. The Lord
Jesus Messiah was not anesthetized. Instead, His pain and suffering
continued when His clothes were torn off Him.
At Calvary, the soldiers offered
Jesus wine mixed with a bitter liquid (myrrh), which Jesus did not
drink. The custom was to give the condemned an intoxicating drink to
alleviate the extremely difficult pain. The intoxicating drink was an
anesthetic of the time. Jesus went to the cross without anesthesia and
without any kind of alleviation. Consider how the Lord Jesus Messiah took
the entire punishment onto him without any "alleviating
pharmaceuticals". The Lord Jesus Messiah loves you, which is why He,
because of your sins, He was ready to suffer the horrible, gruesome pain
and suffering which led to His death.
The large and long post was
lying ready on the ground. The cross-beam (patibulum) is fastened to the
post. Romans crucified the condemned so that they were either naked or
had a small loincloth on them. Jesus was placed lying on His back, with
His hands outstretched on the cross-beam.
According to the studies by the
French doctor Pierre Barbet, a hand-drilling machine was used to drill
holes through the crucified person's wrists and feet. The holes were for
striking nails through them to hang the condemned person on the cross.
There is also another view,
according to which the nails were hit powerfully through the wrists and
feet without any drilling. Regardless of which view is the truth in this
matter, the nailing caused extreme pain to the crucified person.
The executioner took large, long
nails which he hit, with one strike, at full force through the feet and
hands of Jesus so that the nails bit deep into the wood, ensuring that
the condemned would hang firmly on the cross.
The drilling and hitting the
nails through the feet and hands, caused nerve damages in the feet and
hands, which caused immense pain and suffering to Jesus. As the nerves
damaged, He felt terribly agonizing pain because His nerve system had
been severely damaged. According to medicine, the damaging of a person's
nerve system causes them to experience the heaviest pain possible, and
as a consequence, the person may lose their consciousness because the
pain is so extremely unbearable, painful and agonizing.
The Bible teaches us that the
Lord Jesus Messiah did not lose His consciousness but, in a conscious
state, He had to experience the extremely heavy pain and suffering which
were tearing all parts of His body.
The Lord Jesus Messiah had
fastened to the cross and the cross was lifted up. The crucified had to
support his body on the cross if he had the energy to do so after the
horrifying torture. When the crucified no longer had any energy to
support himself on the cross, and he started to move downwards, he died
a slow death caused by asphyxiation.
When the crucified was
supporting Himself on the cross, the nails hit through the feet and
hands touched the nerves, causing immense, unbearable pain all the time.
The Lord Jesus Messiah had to experience this kind of pain for about
three hours before He died. The Lord Jesus Messiah suffered unbearable,
horrible pains of death because of your sins so that you can be saved by
believing in Him, and receive eternal life. The love of the Lord Jesus
Messiah towards sinners is incomprehensible: it goes beyond the limits of
human understanding.
The soldiers divided the clothes
of Jesus among themselves, thus filling the prophecy on the details of
the death of Jesus and of the atonement by Him. On the board above the
head of Jesus on the cross, Pilate wrote: Jesus the Nazarene, King of
the Jews. This was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. The text on the
board illustrated and described the crime of which the crucified had
been convicted.
The Bible says that the Lord
Jesus Messiah is the King of Kings and the King of the Jews. The Lord
Jesus Messiah was crucified, innocent, for a crime which Had not done
because He is the mighty King of Kings. Because of the sins of all
mankind, the Lord Jesus Messiah, innocent, was crucified to die a
horrible death. This means that you and me and everyone else "crucified"
the Lord Jesus Messiah because He was crucified because of our sins.
Despite that He was crucified because of our sins, He wants to forgive
our sins. Jesus' love towards people is immense. He does not look back
at the horrible, immense pain and agony He suffered, which we have
caused to Him, but in His great love, He wants to forgive our sins when
we believe in Him.
The soldiers, the crowd and the
chief priests and scribes mocked and blasphemed Jesus who was hanging on
the cross, suffering enormous pain and suffering. How low can sinners
be; they mocked and blasphemed the holy, innocent and blameless Son of
God. Only He can release people from the ties and slavery of sin. Sin
fully blinds the hearts of people, and because of the blindness, they,
in their hearts, can mock and blaspheme the Lord Jesus Messiah who
voluntarily agreed to suffer the horrible pain and agony and to die the
absolutely most horrifying kind of way.
If you have mocked and
blasphemed the Lord Jesus Messiah and the Bible, remember that the Lord
Jesus Messiah also suffered and died for your sake, so that your sins
would be forgiven and you would receive eternal life by believing in
the Lord Jesus Messiah.
The Lord Jesus Messiah suffered
and experienced immense pain when hanging on the cross for about three
hours before He died. Before His death, the Lord Jesus Messiah shouted:
It is finished (tetelestai in Greek). The words "it is finished"
was a shout of victory and joy, shouted by soldiers when they returned
home, victorious. When victorious soldiers were reaching their home
city, they already shouted this shout of victory and joy from far away,
and the people of the entire city heard it and rejoiced in the victory
achieved by the soldiers.
During His last moments, amidst
the horrible pain and agony, the Lord Jesus Messiah shouted a shout of
joy and victory. He did not focus on His pain during his last moments
because He rejoiced in that through His death, sin and satan had been
defeated, and through eternal atonement, people can receive forgiveness
of sins, and eternal life by believing in the Lord Jesus Messiah.
When hanging on the cross, the
Lord Jesus Messiah felt great love towards you and in His heart, He
focused on rejoicing and exulting in that you have the opportunity to
receive eternal life because He died for your sake, in a horrifying way
on the cross at Calvary.
The Lord Jesus Messiah took upon
Himself the punishment for sins by dying on the cross for the sake of
your sins. The Lord Jesus Messiah shed His blood for the forgiveness of
your sins. Through His death and resurrection, you can have your sins
forgiven when you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Messiah.
The Lord Jesus Messiah
was not abandoned to Hades and His body did not perish because God the
Father raised Him from the dead and put Him at His right side. The cross
of the Lord Jesus Messiah does not only proclaim death, but life through
death. The Lord Jesus Messiah is risen so that your sins would be
forgiven when you believe in Him.
Many people experience powerful
rejection due to which they live their life as broken people, and this
may cause different feelings in their hearts, such as bitterness, anger,
unhappiness, anxiety, fears, powerlessness, the lack of approval, etc.
The testimony of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Messiah is
convincing and powerful because everyone who puts their hope in the Lord
Jesus Messiah and believes in Him is healed from their wounds of heart
by the power of God's love, which never abandons those who want to live
their lives as children of God.
The custom was to break the
shinbones of the crucified, which brought a about a quicker death.
According to the Jewish law, the condemned had to die before nightfall.
Crucifixion was a Roman custom of executing people, but the custom of
breaking the shinbones was Jewish. The Lord Jesus Messiah was crucified
on the Great Sabbath (not the weekly Sabbath), which took place on the
first and last day of the Passover week. Because of the Great Sabbath
which was drawing near, the crucified people had to be taken down from
their crosses and buried before the start of the Great Sabbath.
When soldiers reached the Lord
Jesus Messiah and saw that He had already died, they did not break His
bones. This is how Biblical prophecy was fulfilled: the Passover lamb,
which the Jews had on their Passover meal, depicted the Messiah. The
bones of the Passover lamb were not to be broken, which means that
Biblical prophecy was also fulfilled here.
Because Jesus had already died,
one of the soldiers pierced the left side (at the heart) of the Lord
Jesus Messiah so that the allegories of the Lord Jesus Messiah were
fulfilled. The pericardium contains a small amount of water and when the
soldier pierced the heart of Jesus, blood and water bled from Him.
Therefore, the flow of water and blood was a natural process.
Even though the flow of water
and blood from the side of Jesus was a natural process after His heart
had been torn, I believe that this also was a spiritual allegory.
The side of the Lord Jesus
Messiah was bleeding because the blood of Jesus atones for sins. Water
also came out of the side of the Lord Jesus Messiah because He is a
spiritual rock. When a rock was hit in the desert, the people, who was
about to be exhausted, received water to drink. When the Lord Jesus
Messiah was executed on the cross, people who believe in the Lord Jesus
Messiah are forgiven of their sins and receive living water in the Holy
Spirit.
The bleeding of water also was a
spiritual allegory of Jesus: He is the Rock which is bleeding water.
Hitting the rock of Mount Horeb also was an allegory of the Lord Jesus
Messiah's death on the cross, through which the people get living water.
According to the God's plan, the soldier used the end of his spear to
pierce the heart of Jesus so that it would bleed blood and water so that
the allegories would be fulfilled.
The bleeding of water was not
related to the church doctrine's water baptism even though some people
argue so. If an allegorical teaching for water baptism is to be sought
from the bleeding of water, it refers to the water baptism received
after being saved.
The Good News in the Bible, the
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Messiah advises people to repent and to believe
in the Lord Jesus Messiah for the forgiveness of sins and for accepting
salvation to receive eternal life. In Biblical language, "repentance" is
regretting your sins, and the changing of your mind, and as a
consequence, you no longer think like you did before, but in a new way,
as God wants you to. In your heart, think about the Lord Jesus Messiah
and the Gospel and the forgiveness of sins, and when you hear in your
heart that God is calling you to receive salvation, say yes to Him so
you will not end up in damnation, but your sins are forgiven and you
receive eternal life.
2 Corinthians 6:2 For he saith,
I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I
succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day
of salvation.
Mark 1:15 And saying, The time
is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe
the gospel.
Luke 24:
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the
preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us
which are saved it is the power of God.
P.S. The film by Mel Gibson
about the suffering of Jesus and the events preceding the Crucifixion is
not based on the Bible but on non-Biblical visions of a nun and mystic
called Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824). Gibson admits himself that
the film Passion of the Christ is based on the visions of
Emmerich.
Recommended links:
Sources:
33/38 Raamattu
Biblia 1776
King James Version 1769
columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/barbet
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