The Witnesses
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When Jesus was crucified, His disciples hid in fear—yet witnesses remained. Examine the unique perspectives of the Roman centurion on duty and the devoted women who stayed because of their love for Jesus. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. As Jesus was hanging on the cross, dying, his disciples took off. |
| 0:29.4 | They ran and hid, fearing for their lives. |
| 0:32.6 | And yet witnesses remained. |
| 0:34.6 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg examines the unique perspective of the Roman |
| 0:38.7 | centurion on duty and the devoted women who stayed out of their love for Jesus. We're looking at |
| 0:46.2 | Mark Chapter 15. Well, as I say, we left off, for those of you who are not here this morning, we left off at verse 38, |
| 0:57.9 | with the picture of the curtain of the temple being torn into from top to bottom. |
| 1:03.5 | And I'm simply calling these final three verses that are in this section, the witnesses, the witnesses. |
| 1:13.5 | Because Mark now tells us, first of all, |
| 1:22.9 | about a man who was required by duty to be an observer of what has taken place. And then he tells us of these women who were present not on account of duty, but on account of their devotion, on account |
| 1:30.2 | of their love for Jesus. And so we'll look at them in turn. First of all, in verse 39, this |
| 1:37.2 | centurion, we have been introduced to individuals who fulfilled this role in the Roman army as we've gone through |
| 1:46.1 | this gospel and other gospels too. This man's responsibility on this particular occasion |
| 1:51.5 | was clearly tied to the crucifixion not only of Jesus but also of the two robbers who were |
| 1:57.9 | crucified with him. He was really the head of the execution squad. |
| 2:04.6 | And so it is understandable that it would be he who would answer the question posed a little later on |
| 2:10.9 | by Pilate. You will see that if your Bible is open in verse 44. Pilot was surprised to hear that he, that is Jesus, should have already died. |
| 2:21.4 | And summoning the centurion, that's this man, he asked him whether he was already dead. |
| 2:28.3 | And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, then he granted the corpse to Joseph, this man from Arimathea, |
| 2:36.4 | who had asked for it. And so in the space of just a few words, you will notice here in this 39th verse, |
| 2:44.0 | Mark provides us not actually simply with a climax to this particular scene, but in some ways, here we are at the climax of |
| 2:55.6 | the entire Gospel of Mark. Mark now has brought us to the point where all of his work is virtually |
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