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Most of the posts you’ll find here first appeared as podcast episodes. You can listen to each episode on the page or read the slightly edited transcript. You’ll also find questions for personal reflection or discussion.
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Even though Luke is a doctor, he includes very few details on Jesus’ physical suffering. He does emphasize, however, the insults that many different groups of people threw at him. They all had a similar message: If you are the Messiah, save yourself. Instead, Jesus chose to save us.
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On his way to the cross, Jesus has one final public lesson. He tells the women who mourned for him, “Do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.” Jesus calls them not to be sorry for him but to be sorry for their own sin. Because when we weep for our…
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In the story of Jesus’ trial, we meet a character who seems insignificant and yet he’s mentioned in all four Gospels. Barabbas is a guilty prisoner, awaiting his death. Then, through a miracle that he did nothing to cause and didn’t deserve, he’s set free. And Jesus dies in his place. Barabbas demonstrates the gospel.
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The crowd at Jesus’ trial is surprisingly intense. They’re shouting, insisting, demanding. They won’t settle for Jesus punished–they want him killed. And to do it, they’re willing to trade him for a murderer. What trades do we make when God doesn’t do what we want him to do?
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During Jesus’ trial, he bounced around from the Jewish Council to Pilate to Herod and then back to Pilate. No one in authority wants to deal with the Jesus problem. Pilate tries multiple ways to appease the crowd but eventually gives in to their demands, showing that inaction does not make us innocent.
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Jesus is relatively quiet during his trial so it can be easy to miss the radical things he does say. But underneath the aggression of the religious leaders, the farce of a trial, and the mocking of the Romans, is the unrelenting testimony of Jesus’ kingship.
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Amy C Walters 