OUR FATHER WHOSE PERFECT SON WAS CRUCIFIED AMONG CRIMINALS

The book of John chapter 19 verses 17 - 22 says this;

17 And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, 18 where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. 19 Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was:

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

21 Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.” ’ ”

22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

The Lord Jesus, now in a weakened state, was now to carry a wooden cross to the location of His crucifixion. Mathew chapter 27 verse 32 records that a man called Simon the Cyrenian (Lybia) was shanghaied into carrying the cross for Jesus at least part of the way to the crucifixion site.

Jesus was nailed to a cross and lifted up between two men who were being crucified for their crimes.

Pilate ordered that a plaque with the words, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" be placed on the cross above Jesus' head.

This title was objected to by the chief priests and they tried to get Pontius Pilate to change it from a title plaque to a indictment plaque where it would reflect that Jesus made the claim that He was the king of the Jews.

Pilate, in a repudiation to the priests, refused to change the plaque saying, " What I have written, I have written".

Amen.

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