Tonight, after I finish writing, I'm going to go outside and take the purple cloth off of our cross and put on the black one. It's eight forty five PM right now. Just think, it could have been at this time in the evening that Jesus told James, John, and Peter, Mathew 26:41 "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the body is weak."
Or it could be the exact time of night when He prayed, Luke 22:42 saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."
So many things happened to Him on this night so many years ago. He was betrayed, His disciples whom He called His friends deserted Him and one (Peter) even denied knowing Him, just as He predicted. He was falsely arrested and taken from place to place because they all wanted Him dead but none of them had the guts to convict Him and do it themselves. They all claimed that He was from the others jurisdiction and ultimately took Him to Pilate saying that he had to put Jesus to death because it was unlawful for them (the Jews) to do so. I think that if they weren't worried about Him really being the Messiah as He said He was, that they would have found a way to kill Him themselves regardless of what the Roman law was. Think about it, these were educated people, people who had studied the scriptures their entire lives. They had to see the similarities between Jesus and the scriptures.
Our Lord was punched, and falsely accused, He was all alone and He was denied sleep on the night before His crucifixion. All the while He knew that He could at any time call legions of angels to save Him, yet He stayed and silently took all the torture and all the hatred of man who, ironically, He created.
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