On April 20th, Christians around the world will gather to celebrate Resurrection Sunday.

For the follower of Jesus Christ, Easter weekend represents the culmination of our Christian faith,

when our Savior died on the cross and rose to light.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall presents the backstory of Easter that takes our breath away.

He's teaching from the book of Matthew on the unbearable suffering that preceded the resurrection

in order to help us recognize the magnitude of the crucifixion.

Chuck titled today's message, Those Final Dreadful Hours.

There are some passages of Scripture that we feel we can simply sit before in awe and let the wonder in.

We've come to one of those today in Matthew 27, 27 through 50.

This represents the final dreadful hours

our Savior spent on earth before breathing his last

and releasing his spirit as he bore the sins, yours and mine, and those of the whole world

after the father had turned away from him. Truly one of the most awesome scenes ever recorded,

if not the most.

I'll be reading from the new living translation, Matthew 27, beginning at verse 27.

Some of the governor's soldiers took Jesus into their headquarters and called out the entire regiment.

They stripped him, put a scarlet robe on him.

They wove foreign branches into a crown and put it on his head.

They placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter.

Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted,

Hail, king of the Jews!

And they spit on him,

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