This Is Jesus: King of the Jews

 

John 19:1

So then Pilate took Jesus and had Him scourged (flogged, whipped).

Isaiah 50:6

I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]; The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him, And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.

Knowing now that His face was a bloody mess from having His beard torn out, we see that His persecutors further assaulted Him.

John 19:2

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe around Him. 

Matthew 27:29

And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

Mark 15:17

They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.

John 19:3

And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail (rejoice, be glad), King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

His back, shoulders, neck, and legs having been whipped to shreds earlier, now had a garment thrown around Him, which caused the wounds to clot and cling to the cloth. But when the rob was stripped away from Him, the bleeding began again. And this is how He walked and carried the cross (beam) in the road and up the hill. 

Matthew 27:31

After they had mocked Him, they removed the robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they led Him away to crucify Him.

The post would already have been placed into the ground. The beam Christ carried across His shoulders, but in His condition, His weakened body had not strength to carry such a heavy crossbeam. 

Mark 15:21

Now Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and the soldiers forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.

Luke 23:26

As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

And when Jesus reached the top of Golgotha, the soldiers nailed His hands to the cross beam, raised Him up on the crossbeam and set it into the post already there. Then they nailed His feet to that post.

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

Matthew 27:35

After they had nailed him to the cross, the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.

Psalm 22:18

They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

John 19:23-24

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it." This was to fulfill the Scripture: "They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing." So that is what the soldiers did. 

Matthew 27:37

Above His head they put up the charge against Him in writing: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

The crime He was accused of and crucified for. And who accused Him.

Luke 23:38 tells us it was written in three languages, that all who saw Him would know who He was.

And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

[in Greek:  Αυτός είναι ο Ιησούς Ο Βασιλιάς των Εβραίων           ; in Latin: Hic est Iesus Et rex Iudaeorum; in Hebrew: זה ישו מלך היהודים]

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.

And in the agony of breathing, Jesus managed to make seven statements. His lungs were pressed for air, His heart struggling to keep blood pumping through His body for just long enough, His whole body cramping, aching and weakening, Jesus spoke. 

Luke 23:34-35

When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

Luke 23:39-43

One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment? We are punished justly, for we are receiving what our actions deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

 

John 19:26-27

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

John 19:28

After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

Matthew 27:46

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Luke 23:44-46

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.

Isaiah 53:3-5, 7

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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.

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 opens not his mouth.

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Jesus died of a broken heart. Though leg-breaking was the common way of increasing the time of death for many who were crucified, this was not necessary for the death of Christ: He had already died.

John 19:33-34

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.  

Mark 15:39

When the centurion standing there in front of Jesus saw how He had breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

This is Jesus: King of the Jews