Sentenced To Death And Executed For NO Legal Reason

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Mar 29 2015 11:18 PM

This week we enter the Easter Season. If you believe in GOD, when you read Mark 15, you realize that some 2,000 years ago, what happen still exists today.

The Sanhedrin ( like the Alabama Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court ) was the Jewish Supreme Court. It consist of 70 members which included Chief Priests, elders, teachers. A group of leaders in the community.

The Sanhedrin did not have the authority to put people to death.

The Sanhedrin met all night, then "early in the morning", about 6 AM, they reached a decision on Jesus.

NOTE: The Sanhedrin violated the open meetings law. They were not allowed to have the meeting yet they met all night.

After the meeting, the Sanhedrin has trumped up charges on Jesus. HE was guilty of nothing, but the Sanhedrin said HE was guilty of blasphemy.

Rome hated the Jews. They had envy against Jesus and HE threatended them with his teaching.

Pilate knew Jesus had done nothing. Jesus invoked HIS right and did not answer the questions of Pilate. It was custom to release someone. Pilate knew it should be Jesus. But Pilate listended to the crowd, of which did not know the facts. Pilate wanted to please the crowd.

The crowd wanted Barabbas released and not Jesus. So Pilate did, not what was right, but what the uninformed crowd wanted in releasing Barabbas, and turned Jesus over to the flogged and put to death.

FLOGGED - 39 lashes were involved in a Jewish flogging. Of the 39 lashes, 13 to the front of the body of Jesus. They then rolled Jesus to the back and administered another 26.

Lashes against the flesh of Jesus. The body of Jesus was mangled, bruised, bleeding, probably mixed with dust, blood and sweat. The flesh of Jesus was shredded and most likely had flies on HIS body. Perhaps the internal organs of Jesus were hanging out.

The siolders showed no compassion. They enjoyed mocking Jesus and making a mockery against HIM.

Again, Jesus had committed no crime. Only those jealous that their power could be threatended or in danger, because they could be exposed, were intimidated by Jesus. Because He represented what was right.

They beat Jesus, hung Him on a cross, and a terrible murder of Jesus by the Supreme Court and Governor Pilate, and the siolders who did the dirty work and enjoyed it. They killed Jesus for no legal reason, all the while claiming to the public they had a legal reason.

But, 3 days later...3 days later...Jesus moved the stone and arose from the dead. TODAY, Jesus sits on the right hand of the Father. HE died on the cross so that if take the simple step of beleif, you and I could have enternal life.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT AND GOVERNOR WERE THINKING THEN? Where do you think their enternal life is spent?

As we enter Easter this week, read and study Mark 15.

Also reflect about today's society and those certian siolder's who carry out what they know is wrong.

Mark 15 New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Before Pilate

15 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.

2 “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.

“You have said so,” Jesus replied.

3 The chief priests accused him of many things. 4 So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”

5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.

6 Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.

9 “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate, 10 knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.

12 “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.

13 “Crucify him!” they shouted.

14 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.

But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”

15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18 And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. 22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.

25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26 The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.

27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. [28] [a] 29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

The Death of Jesus

33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[b]

35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.”

36 Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said.

37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.

38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died,[c] he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”

40 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph,[d] and Salome. 41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.

The Burial of Jesus

42 It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God,went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. 45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. 46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.