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4276. Jesus Is Tried before Pilate and Sentenced to Death

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

Big Idea: Although Jesus is innocent of all charges and is truly the king of the Jews, he is delivered to be crucified by Pilate, the Roman governor, at the instigation of the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem, aided by Judas. Understanding the Text Following Jesus’ trial before the Sanhedrin, the chief priests and elders bring him to Pilate, the governor (27:1–2). Matthew narrates the self-inflict...

4277. Judas Hangs Himself

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

27:1–2 At daybreak the chief priests and elders met in full council to plan the death of Jesus. The morning session also served to legalize the clandestine meeting that had taken place the previous night. Since their concerns about Jesus’ religious claims would carry little weight with Roman authorities, it was necessary to develop a charge that would appear revolutionary from a political standpoi...

4278. In A Newly Hewn Tomb

Drama

Joe Barone

We've come full cycle now. We started with a young woman who poured $10,000 worth of oil on the Master's head, and now we come to Joseph. A faithful Jew from Arimathea, probably a man who had made his fortune in Jerusalem, Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin and one who had some feeling for the Savior. What better person from whose view to see the resurrection? Dramatic Monologue: Joseph Of Arim...

4279. Innocent of the Blood of Jesus

Drama

Joe Barone

As we continue our walk with Jesus to the cross, it might be well to consider where we've been. It all started when Mary anointed Jesus with an expensive flask of oil. From there Jesus went to the last supper where he acknowledged that Judas would betray him. We were at Gethsemane with the apostle James, and we watched Jesus stand before the Sanhedrin through the eyes of the high priest Caiaphas...

4280. Pilate's Ruse

Sermon

Lori Wagner

[Optional beginning: Search Mateo Cupcakes on Youtube. Three-year old Mateo has just tied an end around his “No Cupcakes” with his Gramma, and is making his case as to why he should have his cupcakes. Normally, he calls his mother “Momma.” But when he’s arguing, his mother is “Linda, honey.” Wonder where he got that from? This video got so many hits in such a short time that Ellen DeGeneres brough...

4281. Six Nails of the Cross IV: The Nail of Indecision

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Pilate was caught: he wanted to make the best of two worlds. Should he sentence Jesus to death? That's hard to do to a man who has impressed you so favorably ... with his innocence, with his strength, with his wisdom. But what should he do with the overwhelming opposition to Jesus? Should he, Pilate, take a stand against the majority who opposed him? Releasing Jesus would mean an encounter with th...

4282. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Sermon

James W. Moore

Jesus came riding triumphantly into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday... the picture of success. But then, just a few days later, he was nailed to a cross like a common criminal. What happened? What do we make of this? Was Jesus a success? What do you think? Well, for many years now, we in America... have been highly “success-conscious,” “success-oriented.” And most have agreed with Webster’s definiti...

4283. A Courtroom Confrontation

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

Our scripture lesson for today describes a classic courtroom confrontation. On this Passion Sunday it is altogether appropriate that we consider it. Courtrooms are often places of high drama and suspense. Judge Ito's courtroom in Los Angeles has dominated America's attention since January. Enormous power is wielded in courtrooms, power to levy large fines, power to decide between freedom and priso...

4284. The Eternal Question

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

I hope you know by now that I believe that all preaching should have about it a note of Paul, an invitation to become a part of that great fellowship, which is the fellowship of the church. But more than that, that intimate call to be related to Jesus Christ. While I hope that that’s a part of all my preaching, my preaching today is specifically to that end. A great text like this one we’ve read h...

4285. Jesus Before Pilate

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

In Jesus’s hearing before Pilate, the charge against him has undergone a cultural translation: Jesus’s acknowledgment of his identity as the Messiah becomes a charge that he claims to be “the king of the Jews” (27:11). Yet what the Sanhedrin expects of the Messiah is essentially the same as what Pilate understands by “king of the Jews.” Both claims are religious and political, although Pilate is p...

4286. Jesus Before Pilate

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

27:11–14 Standing before the governor (in the New Testament hēgemōn is used of Roman legates, procurators, and proconsuls) Jesus is asked if he is the king of the Jews. The title reflects a gentile perspective: Jews would refer to themselves as Israel. As in 26:25 and 64, Jesus answers sy legeis (lit., “You said [it]”). The ambiguity of the answer has been interpreted to mean that Jesus is in fact...

4287. The Road To The Cross

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

Passion Sunday, the whole story of the dastardly plots and betrayals that brought Jesus to the cross, lies before us. You know the story well. It is filled with a number of subplots, all of which provide insights about the kind of people that we are and how our sins nailed Jesus to the cross. We see how the disciples (especially Judas and Peter, as well as the sons of Zebedee), each in his own way...

4288. The Shouting of the Crowd

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

Spivey's Corner is a little town in Sampson County, North Carolina. I never heard of it until I lived in a nearby county. I passed through it numerous times on my way back and forth to Clinton and was aware of a terrible automobile accident there. A few years ago, Spivey's Corner became famous, featured on the nightly news, written about in news magazines, and visited by people who would never hav...

4289. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

When the grand hall was being built in Florence, the committee in charge of decorations asked the most important artist in all of Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, to submit some drawings. There seemed to be little question that such an important hall should bear the mark of anyone but da Vinci, but other artists also were asked to submit drawings. One of the committee members had heard of a new and very ...

4290. Christ’s Life Jesus Before Pilate

Bulletin Aid

Leader: The Jews brought Jesus to Pilate to have him killed. Roman custom was to release a Jewish prisoner under the death sentence at the time of the Jewish Holy Days. Knowing that Jesus was innocent, Pilate tried to release him to the crowd. Congregation: But the crowd cried, "Crucify him! Crucify him! Release Barrabas instead!" Leader: Pilate was shocked because Jesus had been so popular. Whe...

4291. Compelled to Carry

Drama

Joe Barone

The scripture moves us forward. We may not want it, but we have moved from the feeling of impending death to death itself. It's easy, in the abstract, to say Jesus died for us, but devastating in the concrete. Today as we walk with him to the cross and stand and watch him as he dies, we do so from the point of view of Simon of Cyrene. Dramatic Monologue: Simon Of Cyrene I've heard it said that w...

4292. The Crowd That Hated Him

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Bowl of water We have already found out the different kinds of crowds there are during the last three times that we have gotten together. Do you remember how it was to love Jesus and then to be afraid of him? How did you feel when you were part of the crowd that betrayed Jesus? That was an awful feeling wasn’t it? It is not going to get much better today because the crowds are not very fr...

4293. Crossing the Great Divide

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

"It’s his fault. It’s her fault. It’s their fault." "It’s not my fault. The devil made me do it." Since the first bad trip in the Eden garden, humans have made it a regular practice to pass the buck. From the man who pointed to his questionable helpmate and said, "The woman you gave me, she made me eat that fruit," to the woman who could literally say, "the devil made me do it," to Herod who could...

4294. Faces of Failure: Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Don Tuttle

We all make choices. Sometimes they are binary. The optometrist asks: “Which is better, A or B?” Other times we choose from a plethora of options. Think Starbucks. Will that be a Mocha, Latte, Cappuccino, Macchiato? Tall, grande, venti? Decaf, half-caf, regular? Skinny or regular? Straight or flavor shots? Such is life. Our text today is about choices. The most obvious one is the one m...

4295. There Is a Time

Illustration

Mark Trotter

A pair of stories from Greece. Which, if not exactly around the corner from the Holy Land, is at least in the neighborhood. Actually, the first story takes place in Chania, at an airport on the west end of the island of Crete. On the particular day in question, an Olympia Airlines 727 is deplaning a group of 100 angry passengers into a crowded terminal. Pandemonium follows. Voices are raised, foll...

4296. When Darkness Covered the Land

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

Do you know what was the darkest moment of the year all over the earth for 2022? An organization called EarthSky.org does. Their computers determined that on the night of December 6, 2022 maximum darkness, they called it “global darkness,” cast almost 9 out of 10 people in the world in darkness. At some point during that night Africa, Asia and most of Europe were dark. In fact, there was a precise...

4297. Through His Faithful Death, Jesus as Messiah Redefined Brings Life

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

Big Idea: In his narration of the crucifixion Matthew intertwines his affirmation of Jesus as the true king of the Jews with his use of Psalm 22 to indicate Jesus as the one who trusts God when suffering unjustly, thereby demonstrating Jesus’ death as the completion of his faithful mission, a redefinition of kingship, and a cosmic life-giving event. Understanding the Text The crucifixion narrati...

4298. Jesus’s Crucifixion, Death, and Burial

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

27:27–66 · The crucifixion scene begins with Pilate’s soldiers mocking and humiliating Jesus as they dress him in “kingly” fashion (robe and crown of thorns; 27:28–29) and hail him as “king of the Jews” (27:29). They intend these royal accoutrements and words to show Jesus’s messianic pretensions to be ridiculous. Matthew, however, wants his readers to hear irony. What the soldiers ridicule, Matth...

4299. The Soldiers Mock Jesus

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

27:27–31 After the scourging, Pilate’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium (the governor’s residence while in Jerusalem as well as barracks for his official guard) where, before the entire detachment, they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. Manuscripts reading endysantes (“clothed,” note similarity to ekdysantes, “stripped”) assume he was taken naked from the scourging. The chlamys wa...

4300. Palm Sunday

Bulletin Aid

First Lesson: Isaiah 50:4-9a Theme: God enables his Servant to endure Call to Worship Pastor: Jesus' passion was the result of his hearers not believing the message God had given him. People: He came as Savior to rule in the hearts of humanity. But he was despised, rejected, and finally crucified. Pastor: But God did not give man the last word. God proved Jesus' divine message and mission was au...

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