The It can be easy for us to sentimentalize the Easter story or to skip past the

cross to the good news of the empty tomb. Today on Truth for Life

Alistairbegg pauses in the narrative to take a closer look at Jesus in the

Garden of Gatsimony so we can truly appreciate the full magnitude of his sacrifice

on the cross. We're continuing our study in Luke's Gospel. We're going to turn again to Luke chapter 22 and beginning with verse 39. We have from the pen of Luke another portrait if you like of

the Lord Jesus. Throughout the course of his Gospel he's given to as a number of pictures

of Jesus. I made note of just four of them as they came to my mind when I was thinking

this way, studying this week. I suppose there is inherent in me a desire

that I wish I could capture things in painting. I absolutely can't. I used to cheat in art. I had one of my friends brothers do all my work for me, my homework, and then I would take it back because I really couldn't draw a thing. I had to draw a glass of water.

You never saw anything that looked less like a glass of water in your life.

So Graham drew it for me. My teacher knew it wasn't me and gave me zero out of five. But anyway, I wish that I wish that I could capture these things. And one of the pictures in Luke chapter four is Jesus as a rabbi

seated there in the synagogue in Nazareth and the amazing wonder in the eyes and

minds of the congregation as he looks out on them and says today

the scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing it's a remarkable picture. The

picture of Jesus standing on the deck of the boat along with the bemused disciples.

There we find him the master of the winds and the waves.

He calms the sea. Jesus, the friend of children taking little ones on his lap,

using the occasion to speak to the muttering Pharisees concerning the nature of

childlike faith and trust.

Jesus, with his biceps, clear for all to see,

with the veins standing out in his forehead,

the cleanser of the temple.

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