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| His Final Hours series |
* How He Loved at His Arrest
* How He Loved When He Was Accused
* His Unstoppable Love
* How to Love Like Jesus Did
The Suffering He Faced
In His final hours, Jesus experienced incredible hardship. Throughout His life, He faced plenty of persecution. But in the days leading up to His crucifixion, He faced so much more than I can imagine. The one aspect of Jesus’ suffering we are perhaps most familiar with is the physical suffering He endured in His death on the cross. There are many books, commentaries, and even movies that depict the physical suffering Jesus endured in His final hours. However, the suffering He endured was not just physical. He also felt such emotional sorrow while He was enduring these things physically. In this series, I want to call to attention the emotional suffering He endured, and how He carried Himself throughout His suffering.
Betrayed by Judas
Consider, first, how Jesus was arrested. Jesus had many followers, but the closest to Him were the twelve disciples He had chosen. One of these twelve was a man named Judas Iscariot. Judas had agreed to betray Jesus to the Jewish religious leaders for 30 silver coins. After eating the Passover with Jesus, Judas left and brought back a mob to arrest Him. Judas had arranged a sign with the mob to signal which one was Jesus by kissing Him on the cheek (a common greeting for a close friend or family).
And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.”Matthew 26:49-50
Notice how Jesus calls him “friend”. Jesus knew Judas was going to betray Him. But, when he did so by kissing Him on the cheek, I can almost hear a bit of surprise in Jesus’ voice: “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” (Luke 22:48) Almost as if Jesus had prepared himself for one of his closest friend’s betrayal, but He couldn’t help but feel the weight of that betrayal when Judas did so with the very symbol of their friendship.
Washing Judas’ Feet
But how did Jesus carry Himself leading up to this betrayal, leading up to His arrest? Let’s back up to earlier that night. He was arrested during the Passover; this tradition began with the Passover meal. Between the dirty, dusty streets and the fact that they all wore sandals,
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| His Final Hours series |
* How He Loved at His Arrest
* How He Loved When He Was Accused
* His Unstoppable Love
* How to Love Like Jesus Did
The Suffering He Faced
In His final hours, Jesus experienced incredible hardship. Throughout His life, He faced plenty of persecution. But in the days leading up to His crucifixion, He faced so much more than I can imagine. The one aspect of Jesus’ suffering we are perhaps most familiar with is the physical suffering He endured in His death on the cross. There are many books, commentaries, and even movies that depict the physical suffering Jesus endured in His final hours. However, the suffering He endured was not just physical. He also felt such emotional sorrow while He was enduring these things physically. In this series, I want to call to attention the emotional suffering He endured, and how He carried Himself throughout His suffering.
Betrayed by Judas
Consider, first, how Jesus was arrested. Jesus had many followers, but the closest to Him were the twelve disciples He had chosen. One of these twelve was a man named Judas Iscariot. Judas had agreed to betray Jesus to the Jewish religious leaders for 30 silver coins. After eating the Passover with Jesus, Judas left and brought back a mob to arrest Him. Judas had arranged a sign with the mob to signal which one was Jesus by kissing Him on the cheek (a common greeting for a close friend or family).
And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.”Matthew 26:49-50
Notice how Jesus calls him “friend”. Jesus knew Judas was going to betray Him. But, when he did so by kissing Him on the cheek, I can almost hear a bit of surprise in Jesus’ voice: “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” (Luke 22:48) Almost as if Jesus had prepared himself for one of his closest friend’s betrayal, but He couldn’t help but feel the weight of that betrayal when Judas did so with the very symbol of their friendship.
Washing Judas’ Feet
But how did Jesus carry Himself leading up to this betrayal, leading up to His arrest? Let’s back up to earlier that night. He was arrested during the Passover; this tradition began with the Passover meal. Between the dirty, dusty streets and the fact that they all wore sandals,