Welcome back to our Bible study on the Gospel of Mark.

We left off with Jesus being mocked and scourged by the Romans and crowned with thorns.

And now we see Jesus carrying the cross, and of course the next thing that happens that we've already read about before, we spoke about in our first episode, is Simon of Cyrene, helping him carry the cross

in verse 21 in following, the father of Rufus and Alexander, and they bring him to Golgotha,

which means the place of the skull. There's even legends that that could be the place where

Adam was buried. And of course,

Jesus carrying the cross with a crown of thorns, the thorns that were the curse upon Adam.

Here Jesus is seen bearing the curse of Adam, Adam himself, and he will die bearing the ultimate

curse upon Adam, which is death. They offered him some wine mingled with myrr, but he did not take it.

That narcotic is a kindness to those who are sentenced to death to ease their pain.

But Jesus puts aside any narcotic that would ease his pain.

He is going to drink the dregs of this cup that the father has given him.

He is going to suffer fully

and freely for you and for me. And they crucified him and divided his garments among them,

casting lots for them to decide what each should take. That itself is a prophecy going back to

Psalm 22 and we'll come back to Psalm 22 in just a little bit,

because Jesus will be citing that very Psalm. And it was the third hour. And when they crucified

him, and the inscription of the charge against him read, so the inscription on the cross,

here's the charge. Why is he killed? King of the Jews.

And he does die as the king of the Jews, to save the Jews, and to save all. He is the king of the

Jews. Now it's interesting that the Romans will refer to Jesus as the king of the Jews.

We're about to hear the chief priests and the scribes mocking Jesus and they will refer to him

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