Responding

N.T.#800 "Responding"

May 19, 2026 

John 19, 2026 

LET IT GLOW 

How do we respond when we are made fun of, criticized, forsaken? 

So a criminal thief was let go instead of Jesus. Pilate found no fault in Him. Yet the Jewish leaders did. They didn't want to hear Jesus preach the truth. They didn't want Him gathering people to follow Him instead of the Jewish leaders. Yep, their scheme worked. The Jews killed the Messiah, the Son of God.

Pilate tried to pacify the Jewish leaders by having Jesus beaten. 

What happened?

• They used a whip of leather strips with bits of bone or metal tied to the ends. It resulted in the victim's back having its skin ripped open. 
• Next, the soldiers mocked Jesua' claim of being a king by putting a crown of thorns on His head. 
• They dressed Jesus in a purple robe, then shouting, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
• They slapped Jesus in the face.

This was fulfillment of Isaiah 50:6 and 53:5, But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. (NAS)

Such brutality and humiliation our Savior endured. So much suffering Jesus went through for you and me.

LET IT GROW

Again, Pilate said he found no fault in Jesus. He declared the innocence of Christ. Jesus' robe would have been blood soaked robe. 

The chief priests and officers cried out, saying, "Crucify Him, crucify Him."

Pilate said, Take ye Him, and crucify Him: for I find no fault in Him. (verse 6) beaten, yet He forgave them and continued to love people

By Jewish law, when Christ claimed to be God, He should die. (Lev. 24:16)

Friend, Jesus knows what it is like to be made fun of, mocked, spoked of in bad ways, even beaten. Yet Jesus continued to love and forgive those evil ones.  Keep in mind that Jesus could have called 10,000 angels to rescued Him and kill the whole bunch of evil ones, but He chose not to do so. 

LET IT GO

Help us love our enemies and pray for them.