All the people who will spend forever in hell will spend forever there because they will never be able to pay for their sins.

And yet Jesus in three hours could pay in full for all the sins of all the people

who would ever believe.

How?

Because an infinite amount of wrath can only be absorbed by an infinite person. It has been called the hinge on which all of history turns.

It's certainly the turning point in the Bible,

the painful crescendo of Jesus earthly ministry,

and yet scripture says, well, very little about what Jesus experienced

on the cross.

So what does the Bible focus on instead?

Well today on Grace to you, John MacArthur points to the precise details

recorded in Luke's Gospel as he continues his study The Crucifixion Chronicle.

You'll get a vivid picture of what you would have seen and heard if you had

been there when Jesus went to the cross. It's a portrait that can prepare you for

profound worship as Resurrection Sunday approaches.

And with that lesson, here's John MacArthur.

Luke chapter 23, verses 44 through 46. Let me read it to you. And it was now about the sixth hour and

darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

The sun being obscured.

And the veil of the temple was torn in two.

And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said,

Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.

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