as for the first time guilt and shame are known by him
It comes overwhelming him, and the weight of the world throughout all human history,
is poured onto his head.
The crowed shouted in joy and anger,
and screams of terror and pain were drowned out by
hatred and pure evil moved among them,
provoking heart strickening words
"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ? Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!" - Matthew 27:22
The King is brought out into the streets,
stripped of his majesty, yet glorified
stripped from his clothes, spit in his face,
and mocked for all the good he had done.
"They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him." - Matthew 27:28-31
A bloody trail left, leading up to a hill where he is left, all alone.
The first time in his life, after 30 years,
completely desperately, and utterly alone.
Abandoned.
The innocent left alone to suffer guilt.
To take the wrath of evil on him.
"About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"" - Matthew 27:46
All of nature violently revolted,
The mid-day blackened like hope sucked from that atmosphere.
Then, the land mass itself seizured with agony, while rocks were split.
The divine portal to the heavenly realm ripped open, top down.
And those who saw it stood in amazement.
"From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. . . .At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split." - Matthew 27:45, 51
In the most grotesque scene,
Beauty is defined, but his body was able to be,
Beauty shines forward, as the sun did not,
Beauty is poured out on us, as his blood flowed out
"But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed." - Isaiah 53:5
And in the greatest act of injustice,
justice was satisfied
and criminals were set free.
"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Corinthians 5:21
They killed Jesus.
They killed Him.
Thank God they killed Him.
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit" - 1 Peter 3:18
the best part:
this story is
to be continued...
And in the greatest act of injustice,
justice was satisfied
and criminals were set free.
"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Corinthians 5:21
They killed Jesus.
They killed Him.
Thank God they killed Him.
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit" - 1 Peter 3:18
the best part:
this story is
to be continued...
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