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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:13.0 | Today's reading has a lot in common with yesterday's reading. We covered the first half yesterday, so today we'll recap the last half. |
0:19.0 | And it may not be suitable for little ears, so |
0:21.1 | use your own discretion. When we left off, Jesus had just gone through six trials and was ultimately |
0:26.3 | handed over by Pilot for crucifixion. At this point, he's been mocked and beaten, had a crown |
0:31.4 | of thorns put on his head, and I'm guessing they didn't do that gently. Then on his way to the cross, Pilot either personally flogs him or |
0:38.1 | orders him to be flogged. The Jews have a rule that they can't flog a person more than 39 times, |
0:43.5 | but Pilot is a Roman governor, and the Romans have a reputation for being more cruel than other governments. |
0:48.9 | They want to strike fear in the hearts of the insurrectionists with public beatings and |
0:52.8 | visible crucifixions, so we don't know how many times Jesus was beaten. We just know from the prophecy of Isaiah 5214 |
0:59.0 | that he seems to be beaten beyond human recognition. This is not the image we often see of him on the cross with a few cuts and a trickle of blood. |
1:07.0 | That feels like a mockery to what he actually endured. This beating is a total undoing of his body. |
1:13.8 | In fact, he's so weak that they have to get someone else to carry the cross for him. |
1:17.7 | They pull in a man named Simon who has likely come to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. |
1:22.1 | He's from the town of Cyrene, which is in modern-day Libya. It's about 1100 miles away, |
1:26.6 | making it about a six-week journey. |
1:28.5 | As soon as he arrives, they pull him in to help Jesus as he stumbles toward his death. |
1:32.8 | By the way, most historians indicate that Jesus would have been carrying just the crossbeam, |
1:37.4 | the part that goes behind the arms, because wood was scarce in Israel, |
1:41.2 | so the Romans would often use a fixed upright over and over, and it was possibly |
1:45.3 | just a bare tree trunk that they would nail the cross beam to. The Romans often crucified people |
1:50.2 | on the main roads going into the city for a few reasons. First, they would only execute people |
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