Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with Jesus crucified as we pick up in Mark, chapter 15, verse 23.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

There were a certain group, a society of ladies in Jerusalem, a society of mercy,

who would make up this concoction of wine with myrr that had the effect of an anesthesia

and would stupefy the prisoners so that they would not experience so badly the suffering and the

pain of crucifixion.

And so they would come out when prisoners were ready to be crucified

and they would give them this stupefying drink

so that the person would sort of be out of their head

and not experience as badly the terrible pain and the suffering of crucifixion.

And they offered it to Jesus, but to me it is significant that he refused it,

in order that he might taste of death for every man, and know what it was.

Many of his followers in time to come were to be crucified also for their belief in Jesus Christ.

When Peter was condemned to die by crucifixion,

Peter requested that he have the privilege of being crucified upside down

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