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Y‘shua or Barabbas? A Yom Kippur nugget ............................................................. 527
A Yom Kippur thought ............................................................................................... 528
27:18- 19 Have thou nothing to do with that just man ................................................ 528
The Roman Scourging .............................................................................................. 529
The broken body: ...................................................................................................... 529
By His stripes you are healed: .................................................................................. 529
27:20-24 He took water, and washed his hands before the multitude ...................... 530
27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our
children ..................................................................................................................... 530
27:26 And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified .............. 531
Summary of the Roman trials ................................................................................... 531
The first Roman trial ................................................................................................. 531
The charge: .............................................................................................................. 532
The defense: ............................................................................................................. 533
The release: .............................................................................................................. 533
The trial of Herod - the second Roman trial .............................................................. 534
The third Roman trial - back at Pilate ........................................................................ 534
The sentence: ........................................................................................................... 536
27:27- 41 And they crucified him, and parted his garments ....................................... 538
27:42-45 If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we
will believe him ......................................................................................................... 538
27:46 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? .............................................. 539
Forsaken: What Did Y‘shua Mean? .......................................................................... 539
The nature of His sufferings: Real wrath and alienation ........................................... 540
The context and nature of Y‘shua‘s experience ........................................................ 541
27:47-50 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth
for Elias ..................................................................................................................... 542
The moment of death ................................................................................................ 542
The Gospel Accounts ............................................................................................... 543
Mark's record: ........................................................................................................... 543
Luke's record: ........................................................................................................... 543
John's record: ........................................................................................................... 543
The Legs Broken: ..................................................................................................... 544
The Piercing of Y‘shua: ............................................................................................. 544
What is life? .............................................................................................................. 544
The shedding of blood: ............................................................................................. 545
Y‘shua's shed blood: ................................................................................................. 545
To cover or to forgive: ............................................................................................... 545
Y‘shua is the perfect and final sacrifice for sin: ......................................................... 546
Matthew's account: ................................................................................................... 547
27:51 The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the
earth did quake ......................................................................................................... 547
27:52-53 The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose
.................................................................................................................................. 547
What was the reason for Y‘shua to descend into the underworld? ........................... 548
Y‘shua went to proclaim to the spirits in prison. ........................................................ 548
Where did Y‘shua go to take from the bowels of the underworld? ............................ 549
The resurrection of Y‘shua after three days .............................................................. 549
27:54 Truly this was the Son of God ......................................................................... 550
27:55- 61 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus ...................................... 550
Y‘shua‘s burial .......................................................................................................... 550
The Rabbinic Writers: ............................................................................................... 550
Y‘shua died a Jew..................................................................................................... 551