Good Friday: This is Pain – March 29, 2024
Pastor Jeremy Mayol
John 19:1-8 (CSB)
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe.
3 And they kept coming up to him and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and were slapping his face.
4 Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging him.”
5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 When the chief priests and the temple servants saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”
7 “We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.
John 19:14-24 (CSB)
14 It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”
15 They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?” “We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.
16 Then he handed him over to be crucified. Then they took Jesus away.
17 Carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate also had a sign made and put on the cross. It said: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
20 Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the king of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.
24 So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says: They divided my clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing. This is what the soldiers did.
John 19:28-30 (CSB)
28 After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now finished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, “I’m thirsty.”
29 A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it up to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
Two Major Events Took Place on Good Friday
1. The curse was crushed.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 (CSB)
22 If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
23 you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.
Genesis 3:15 (CSB)
15 He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
Romans 5:12 (CSB)
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
Hebrews 2:14 (CSB)
14 Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death — that is, the devil.
Romans 5:15 (CSB)
15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed to the many.
2. The veil was torn.
Matthew 27:50-51 (CSB)
50 But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.
51 Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth quaked, and the rocks were split.
Leviticus 16:2-3a (CSB)
2 The Lord said to Moses, Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the curtain in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
3 Aaron is to enter the most holy place in this way…
Hebrews 4:14-16 (CSB)
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens — Jesus the Son of God — let us hold fast to our confession.
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.
16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness
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