According to John

(Sermon series)

 by Rev. Richard Jones

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST

Part 3

John 19: 16-42

THE SIGN
THAT SPOKE THE TRUTH
John 19:16-22 (ESV)
16  So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, 17  and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18  There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19  Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20  Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 21  So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” 22  Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

THE SOLDIERS
THAT GAMBLED FOR CLOTHING
John 19:23-24 (ESV)
23  When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24  so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things,

Psalm 22:14-18 (ESV)
14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; 15  my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. 16  For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet— 17  I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me; 18  they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

Luke 23:39-43 (ESV)
39  One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
40  But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41  And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
42  And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
43  And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

THE SON
THAT CARED FOR HIS MOTHER
John 19:25-27 (ESV)
25  but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26  When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27  Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Luke 2:34-35 (ESV)
34  And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed
35  (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

THE STATEMENT
THAT CHANGED HISTORY
John 19:28-30 (ESV)
28  After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”
29  A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30  When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

THE SCENE
THAT JOHN REMEMBERED
John 19:31-37 (ESV)
31  Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 32  So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. 33  But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34  But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 35  He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. 36  For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37  And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

Psalm 34:20 (ESV)
20  He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Zechariah 12:10 (ESV)
10  “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

THE SECRET
THAT WOULD NOT BE KEPT
John 19:38-42 (ESV)
38  After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. 39  Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. 40  So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42  So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

Luke 23:50-53 (ESV)
50  Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, 51  who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God. 52  This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53  Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.

Isaiah 53:3-6 (ESV)
3  He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4  Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5  But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.