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Mark 15 vv 16 39
- 1. Welcome to Grace Rejoice - the Lord is King! “ The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” Mark 15:38-39
- 2. Mark 15:16-39 Introduction “It’s not that you gave your life to Christ; He gave His life for you.” Scotty Ward Smith
- 3. Mark 15:16-39 Introduction The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18 And they began to call out to him, 19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
- 4. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus i) 21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. ii) 22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). iii) 23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
- 5. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 24 i) Nine a.m. Mockery and insults And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get. 25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26 The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS. 27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. 29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,30 come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
- 6. Psalm 22 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me. 13 Roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against me. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me. 15 My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. 16 Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet. 17 All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. 18 They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.
- 7. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 24 i) Nine a.m. Mockery and insults And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get. 25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26 The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS. 27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. 29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,30 come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
- 8. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers i) Nine a.m. - Mockery and insults ii) Noon - Three hours of Darkness “33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.”
- 9. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers i) Nine a.m. - Mockery and insults ii) Noon - Three hours of Darkness iii) Three p.m. – Dereliction “34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).”
- 10. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 3. The Testimony to Jesus – three ‘witnesses’ a. The veil “37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. 38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.”
- 11. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 3. The Testimony to Jesus – three ‘witnesses’ a. The veil b. The centurion “39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”
- 12. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 3. The Testimony to Jesus – three ‘witnesses’ a. The veil b. The centurion c. The disciple-group
- 13. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 3. The Testimony to Jesus – three ‘witnesses’ a. The veil b. The centurion c. The disciple-group “Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome. 41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.”
- 14. Mark 15:16-39 1. The Crucifixion of Jesus 2. The Death of Jesus – three time markers 3. The Testimony to Jesus – three ‘witnesses’ a. The veil b. The centurion c. The disciple-group Conclusion
Editor's Notes
- Mark underlines the depth of Jesus’ suffering for us. He was stripped and fiercely flogged, publicly, in v. 15 for everyone to see. Then in v. 16 He was taken out of public view amongst a large group of violent men who could do anything they liked to Him. He had no rights any more, He was a condemned man – a dead man walking as far as they were concerned. He had already been flogged so severely that when the time came He was unable to carry the cross beam for His crucifixion very far out of town at all, as v. 21 makes clear for us. So He is PHYSICALLY humiliated and degraded, and now psychologically humiliated and degraded … despised, having been rejected, a very sorry picture indeed for One known (rightly) as the King over the Kingdom of God. He was the evening’s entertainment for a brutalised band of men, in whose hands He was helpless and who were free to do anything they chose so long as tomorrow they tortured Him to death.
- There was a traditional obligation throughout the Roman Empire that legionaries could press gang passers-by from amongst their subject people to carry their baggage a short way …. So someone is chosen as the hugely weakened Jesus stumbles and falters along the way. Why are we told the man’s name? Why are we, moreover, told his CHILDREN’s names?! Obviously these people are intended to be recognised by Mark’s readers … and they’re named in the way other believers known to the readers of Gospels and epistles are named. We don’t hear of them again, but it seems likely that at some point these people – one of whom carried the cross beam for the Saviour to Golgotha – believed and became known to the Church. So they brought Jesus to a ‘place’. ‘Brought’ is not the word that is used. It is a very physical word … they almost have to drag Him there – not because He is unwilling (we’ve seen the reverse of that is true!) but because He is no longer to carry Himself there on His own legs. And so they drag Him to Golgotha. Not a hill – it’s not that word at all. Just a flat place called ‘Skull Place’. Why it was called that we don’t know, but it’s outside the city to stop the Jews kicking off about their purity laws and we know very well what gruesomeness habitually went on there. Now, it was the custom of the pious women of Jerusalem to offer those about to undergo the horrible suffering of crucixion some wine with a grain of frankincense in it as a crude narcotic pain killer. Here they used myrrh, which is also described by the army physician Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) as having narcotic properties. In any event, Jesus is determined to ‘drink the cup’ of suffering to the dregs … and had pledged at the Last Supper that He would not drink again from the fruit of the vine until He drank it afresh in the Kingdom of God. Perhaps this offering of wine for the pain is what He foresaw when He pledged that back then … Here’s the physical weakness of Jesus, the outside the camp defilement of His death and the determination on His part to drink fully to the dregs the cup of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty in the place of lost sinners like you and me … Like you and me WERE. So here’s what He did … and we’re looking out for what it is Mark is specifically trying to tell us here …
- ‘And they crucified Him’ Mark gives no more indication of the physical sufferings of Jesus actual execution than that. He’s been quite detailed up until now – so why IS this? The emphasis now suddenly falls elsewhere … onto three time markers that divide up the process, which become the focus of the rest of Mark’s account. Now, you’ll notice it’s not QUITE that simple, because Mark first of all points to what the soldiers did with Jesus’s clothes … which is a VERY weird emphasis to make … until you realise the reference Mark’s making …
- ‘And they crucified Him’ Mark gives no more indication of the physical sufferings of Jesus actual execution than that. He’s been quite detailed up until now – so why IS this? The emphasis now suddenly falls elsewhere … onto three time markers that divide up the process, which become the focus of the rest of Mark’s account. Now, you’ll notice it’s not QUITE that simple, because Mark first of all points to what the soldiers did with Jesus’s clothes … which is a VERY weird emphasis to make … until you realise the reference Mark’s making …
- So at nine in the morning comes further fulfilment of prophecy … numbered with the transgressors, hurling of insults by passers by … Despised and rejected by everyone … Pilate rejected Him as King of the Jews and placarded Roman mockery of Christ’s claims. … Passers by hurled insults at Him and taunted Him about the three day rebuilding of the Temple – which they didn’t understand but that He was about to achieve through His resurrection … the Chief Priests and the teachers of the Law also mocked Him ’amongst themselves’ (maintaining what they thought was proper decorum, no doubt) … and the two violent brigands, terrorists or freedom fighters (whatever they were) dying in agonies beside Him for their own sins joined in the abuse. Truly ironic is the comment of the religious leaders: “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” It was, of course, in order to save others that He DIDN’T save Himself … and if He’d come down from the Cross, they’d never believe what they’d need to, to be saved!
- Secondly from mid-day there are three hours of darkness. This is NOT a solar eclipse, because that can never take place during Passover. This IS a supernatural intervention by God, causing an un-natural darkness in Creation, as it’s Creator dies. So John 1:3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.” And Colossians 1:16 “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
- Thirdly at three p.m. Jesus cries out: “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).” We are NOT given the answer. But Mark’s readers don’t need it. They know FULL WELL that there is only one thing in the whole of Creation that separates the Creator from His human creation. Only sin can do that And Mark has gone out of his way through the Gospel and particularly through the mock trials we’ve just been through to show that Jesus is utterly innocent. The people Mark’s writing for know perfectly well that the sin separating Jesus from His Father is definitely NOT His but ours. Andrew Price: “An innocent man is dying in the place of guilty sinners.” So Mark’s emphasis in his account of the crucifixion is CLEARLY not on the physical suffering of the Saviour, but rests securely on His sin-atoning death. that explains the first of the testimonies that support our view of the meaning of this event …
- The three ‘time markers’ stress Christ’s sin-atoning death. The three testimonies indicate the authenticity of Jesus’s sin-atoning work on that day. Firstly, that famous veil in the Temple. Famously, the veil in the Jerusalem Temple kept the worshippers out of the dangerous presence of the Holy God … dangerous for sinners whose sin wasn’t paid for. The minute Jesus has died, the curtain is torn –torn from the top to the bottom. The Kingdom of God has come … and your sin is now atoned for by His blood opening up the presence of God to you, or your sin is exposed opening you to the consequences of not being protected any more from the dangerous presence of the Holy God. The curtain is gone because Jesus has died. The intimacy with God lost at the Fall is now open to saved sinners. But for LOST ones, this makes the message of Jesus in Mark 1:15 all the more urgent … your protection is GONE! This is upping the ante! Repent and believe the Good News! Incidentally – in terms of apologetics and evidence – this Gospel was circulating within the lifetime of contemporaries and NO-ONE ever casts doubt on this –it HAPPENED. The impact of Christ’s death on His execution detail was enormous and completely immediate …
- The Jewish Temple curtain, and now the Roman centurion, bear witness to the authenticity and message of Jesus. The Jewish curtain bears testimony to the universally available atonement He makes for sin, the centurion testifies to Jesus’s identity and authority. This Roman centurion who put Jesus to death is the first person in the whole Gospel to understand Mark 1:1 Way back in 1:11 the Father announced Jesus’s identity at His baptism. The forces of darkness soon recognised Jesus too (1:34 – “32 That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed. 33 The whole town gathered at the door, 34 and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.”) By 8:29 the first human to see that Jesus was the Messiah was Peter himself: “ “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” But now – as Jesus DIES – the first human being calls Jesus the Son of God … which is what He was announced as at the start of this Gospel. And it’s a Roman centurion. How relevant do you think THAT is for the persecuted Christians reading this in Rome? The man on the Cross is not just a tragic figure suffering an unjust death. Here’s Mark’s emphasis then. He is the eternal Son of God, dying for the sins of the world. Mark writes for us to be sure to worship Jesus: Saviour, Son of God.
- Now here are the people you KNOW who will testify to this … Gathered around that Cross, seeing it through with the Saviour, are women who stood by the Lord to the end.
- We KNOW men stood around Christ’s Cross as He died too. One of His last words from the Cross was as Jesus asked John to look after Mary, His human mother. So WHY is Mark all over this with women? Andrew Page points out there’s another very typical Mark ‘sandwich’ here. Verses 42-46 describe Jesus’s burial, while on either side of that Mark mentions the women (vv. 40-41 and v. 47). He says: “The women are more faithful than the men. The Apostles have deserted Jesus, but the women are still there, watching as He dies.” It’s curious … because tremendous courage will be shown next by a man – Joseph of Arimathea – who goes to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. Joseph was Himself a prominent member of the Jewish Ruling Council, so this can’t have been easy, and we know from elsewhere that one Nicodemus (of earlier renown in John’s Gospel) joined in the burial process (John 19:38-40). There were BRAVE guys standing around Jesus too. So why is it Mark stresses all these women? In Judaism, their testimony’s NOT VALID … but things are clearly DIFFERENT in the Kingdom of God. What are we getting told here? Jesus is for Jews, brigands, Romans and women. The very thought has been utterly anathema until now, but by His sin-atoning death the game has been changed and the curtains rtorn for EVERYONE now. The Kingdom of God has now come. Repent and believe this GOOD NEWS!
- God’s Word is a truly living Word. I’ve been preaching it since I was seventeen. I’ve been privileged to hear it and study it at the feet of some of the best scholars our age has produced, and been fed from it by the hand of the most godly of men that I’ve known. It staggers me how much is new in it to me every day. There’s been plenty of that along the way in these verses today. But this much is constant and unchanging: Christ’s physical, human weakness, His abasement in death, His embracing the awful human condition is complete His death lay down a spotless life in a sinner’s demise, it was substitution and atonement and salvation for people who deserved it – not for Him – and it opened the presence of God to every man, but not just every man (Jew and Gentile) but every woman … those women who followed Him faithfully, with servant hearts, from Galilee. And the facts of this event are well-witnessed … beyond dispute. The Kingdom of God has come Jesus is the King, God the Son His life and death have atoned for my sin in God’s sight – Heaven’s door is thrown back and the entrance to His presence thrown wide. The Saviour’s command is now URGENT: repent and believe the Good News!