The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-11-13
JESUS CONDEMNED.
International Sunday School Lesson for
Novemb Der 16 1890.

November 10, 1890.
Especially arranged from 8. S. Quarterly.]
LESSON TExT-Lule 23:1s25
GOLDEN TExT-For the transgression of my
people was He stricken.-Isa. 53:2
CENTRAL Truth There is no escape fron O
decision between Christ and the world; nor
from the consequences Of our choice
TIME-Between six and eight O'Clock Friday
morning April Z, A. D. SO.
PLACE-The Pretorium, probably in the
tower of Antonia north Of the temple area, in
Jerusalem.
RULERs-Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome
(seventeenth years. Pontius Plate Governor
of Judea (tifth year, Herod Antipas, of Galilee
(thirty fourth year,.
PARALLEL ACCOMPLISHMENT 27:I5-30 Mark
.5 :619; John l3:334o; l9:1-l6.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs.-i3 called
together:" outside the hall John 1928. IA.
Said" he made three appeals; ~ he de-
clared His innocence. 10. Done unto Him"
against Herod.(2) (v. 1d). "Chastise Him and re-
lease Him" he would substitute scourging for
cruciixion. The scourge was made Of several
thongs with handle; the thongs were made
rough with bits Of iron or bone, for tearing the
flesh, and, thus fitted, it was called u scorpion.
(3) ". lO He would release Jesus according to
custom. For of necessity" q custom he could
not break 49, 'Barabbas:" celebrated
prisoner, who was o ringleader in one of the
instructions against Rome, and favorite Of
the Jews 10. Who sor o certain sedition," etc. |:
OF his crime we are told that there had been
an insurrection in the city; that the insurgents
had committed murder and that the insur-
gents, who were also murderers, among whom
was Barabbas, were now lying in prison. One
of the latest instructions had been occasioned
by the act Of PLATE in taking the money from
the sacred treasury, dedicated to God, for the
construction of aqueducts. This, of course
aroused the Indignation Of the jews and in the
fumult that pngupl unnv lost their 1ivn9 f
Barabbas and his companions were engaged in
this insurrection, there was reason why the
people should be interested in them. 20.
willing wishing, desiring. 20. 'Instant:"
insistent, urgent. 25. "Pilate gave sentence"
1t included scourging, with the terrible scourges
Of leather thongs armed with pieces Of bone or
iron, and crucifixion
LESSON COMMENTS.
After His examination and condemna-
tion by the Jewish council, Jesus was
taken before PLATE, the Roman Gov
ernor. The Jews had no right to pass
the death-sentence on any man, since
they were under the Romans, who re-
served the power Of life and death in
their own hands. So they went to
PLATE to get him to pass the sentence
Of death on the Master. The charge
against Jesus, before the Sanhedrim,
was religious one, and they con-
demned Him for blasphemy. But the
Roman court took no cognizance of
religious questions. So before PLATE
the Jews brought civil charges. They
claimed that He was ''malefactor,"
and guilty Of treason in claiming to be
king. When the Governor, in con-
sequence OF this charge, asked Jesus
whether He really claimed to be king,
Jesus said: my kingdom is not Of
this world" BY this He meant to say:
Eyes; am King, though not in the
sense in which you understand that
word" The answer of the Saviour per-
picked PLATE, who had deep-seated
feeling that He was guiltless man.
So he went out to the Jews, and said:
81 find no fault in Him." Then, will
ing to save Jesus, he offered to release
Him to the people, in accordance with
a custom which he had followed. They,
however, did not want Jesus released,
bat condemned. So they cried out:
"Not this man, but Barabbas." Barab-
bas was robber, who had been i'm.
prisoned. In thus choosing his release
rather than that Of Jesus, they showed
their bitter hatred OF the Master, and
their light estimate Of real crime.
Plate was weak, cowardly, selfish
and cruel man, who had not scrupled to
shed human blood when it suited his
purpose. He was ambitious, and, though
he often knew the right, he often did
the wrong. On the other hand. there
stood before him the puriest, holiest
man in all the world. In all His
life He had done nothing amiss, but had
healed, fed, blessed, taught men, 80
that thousands could testify Of His good
deeds to them and theirs. Yet the in
nocent man stands, bound, before the
guilty man, and by him is judged and
condemned.
Will these two men ever meet again?
most assuredly. When and whercP At
the day Of judgment. What will be
their relative positions then? Will 1t
again be, PLATE on the judgment-seat,
and Jesus, bound, before him? Let
Jesus Himself answer. He says: when
the Son of Man shall come in his glory,
and all the holy angels with Him, then
shall He sit upon the throne Of His glory,
and before Him shall be gathered all
nations" (Matt. 1851, 82). Among them,
Plate also shall be. Then he was the
judge; now Jesus is the Judge. Then
Plate gave sentence; now Jesus gives
the sentence. Pilates sentence was
cruelty unjust; but the sentence of
Jesus will be strictly just. Then
all kings and rulers who here
have wickedly lorded it over
their fellow-men will see that they
themselves are but men. For we
read: "And the kings Of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty
men" shall fee from the wrath Of the
Lamb, 'for the great day of his wrath
is come, and who shall be able to standY'
(Rev 6:l5-17). The scales win then be
turned, and Judas, Caiaphas, Herod, and
PLATE, ell together, shall no longer be
able to make headway against Him
whom, together, they succeeded in cru
cifying.
II you had been PLATE, what would
you have done with Jesus? You say: