Christian Review Magazine Issue 4 - April 2015 | Page 28

THE CROSS

THE RESURRECTION

The religious leaders arrested
Jesus later that night and handed
Him over to Roman governor
Pontius Pilate to be killed for
saying he was the Son of God.
Pilate had him scourged and
crucified. On the eve of Passover
the lamb's would have be taken to
the temple to be slaughtered and
sacrificed at about the same time
as Jesus was being crucified.
Jesus's crucifixion was no random
crucifixion this was the fulfillment
of God’s plan, prophesied by the
prophets and Jesus himself. David
wrote about Jesus's crucifixion a
1000 years before it happened in
Psalm 22:15-18: they have pierced
my hands and feet. I can count all
my bones, they stare and gloat
over me; they divide my garments
among them, and for my clothing
they cast lots… Jesus hung on the
cross with his life pouring out of
him and said “Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they
do.” Isaiah prophesied this very
act…

When Jesus died on the cross they
t