Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is a message on Luke 23 called Jesus, betrayed and crucified. It was preached by Gary

Miller at our 2013 National Conference. It has been marvelous to be here over these days

and to have God speak to us through His Word. As the pre-conference and then the conference

unfolded, I began to feel the weight of being asked to speak on Luke 2239 right through

to 23, verse 49, and to speak on the death of Jesus as we move to the climax of Luke's Gospel.

However, very helpfully, yesterday I got an email from one of our students in Brisbane

who said, I just wanted to remind you, as you would any of us students,

that the power of preaching and gospel transformation is not dependent on our human

initiatives, but rather on the Holy Spirit working through the power of His Word.

With those words ringing in our ears, let's read God's living Word together.

We'll not read the entire passage, although I will go through it, but let's

begin reading Luke 23 from verse 26. This is the living Word of God. And as they led Jesus away,

they seized one Simon of Sirene, who was coming in from the country, and led on him the cross to carry it behind Jesus. And there followed him a great multitude

of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. But turning to them, Jesus said, daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me,

but weep for yourselves and for your children, for behold, the days are coming when they will say,

blessed are the barren and the wounds that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, fall on us and to the hills cover us.

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?

Two others who were criminals were led away to be put to death with him.

And when they came to the place

that is called the skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one in his right and one

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