Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-05-21
JESUS DEATH
AND BURIAL
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;undsy School Lesson Tor May ~. 1905
Specially Prepared for This Paper

NihiI. St'ID-ol, NliTh lDsUGV, Isukt EJ.l1-kO,
John 1879, 1915. The sorrowful way:
Matt. 2:32; Mark 15:21: Luke % 1852;
John 1871 G, Il. The cruciflxion: Matt. q:
20 %: Mark Is 80 q; Luke 1913: John 10:
Is "a. The seven words: Matt. T:4i-49:
Mark 5:33-3G: Luke. 23;3i. 1916; John 10:
$3.50. Tho death: Matt. 81 :5o-j6; Mark 15:
37-4i; Luke ~23:4s-l9: John 19:3O-37. Thu
burial: Matt. q: 57-6s: Mark ~15:42-47; Luk
% 80 Sc; John 19:3s-t2.
T~IME.-Friday. April 7. A. D.. 80. from
1 n. m. fthe arrest) to 3 p m. Uhe DEATH
and about G p. m. the buriaD.
pLACE.-Thc Garden OF Gethscmane,
the house OF Annas In Jerusalem. the
castle OF Antonia. IIcroi's palace on
Mount Zion. and the hill Calvary. prob
ably the knoll outside the Damascus
gate.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The trial OF our Lord consisted Of:
1. The informal trial before Annas.
about 1880 a. m.
2. The irregular trial before the
%sanhedrim, under Caiaphas, before sun.
rise.
g. The formal verdict Of the a q.
hedrim, after sunrise GO a. M.
4. The trial before plate, $50 a. m.
g.. The trial before Herod, about
1880 a. IN.
G. The final surrender by PLATE.
about $50 n. m.
iIlegalities OF the TRIAL.. The real
trial vas held before sunrise, which
was illegal. The trial after sunrise
was only a hasty form, for outward
compliance with the law.
2. The use OF false witnesses, whose
conflicting testimony would have freed
any prisoner in a fair trial.
3. Tho attempt to force Jesus to in
criminate himself.
4. The repeated trials, following re.
pcat6d acquittals, any one OF which
should have brought the proceedings
against Jesus to an end.
s. The arbitrary transfer Of the trial
from court to court.
6. The change OF charge against
Jesus, from that OF blasphemy, most
effective in a Jewish court, to that OF
s%ediiion, most effective in a Roman
tribunal.
z. The use OF popular clamOr to af.
fec the verdict, and compel the Judge
to pronounce against the defendant.
Our Lord was crucified mt the place
called "Thc Skull" Hebrew, Golgotha:
Latin, Calvary. This was without
the gate" (Heb. 1879, which discred-
its the traditional site, the Church OF
the Holy Sepulcher, far within the
walls of the present city. 1t was evi.
IDENTIFY near a road thronged with tray-
elers Matt. 1850. Modern scholars
have fixed upon "the skull.shapcd knoll
above Jcremiah's grotto, outside the
present north wall, near the Damascus
gate. 1t all the requirements
of the Gospel narratives, being outside
the walls, nigh to the city.
Our Lord voluntarily laid down his
life, az he had ~prophnsied John 10:
18). The loud voice in which he
cried his last words Tuke 23:46),
showing tia his bodily energies were
still u~neXhausted. "CrucihxiOn was
n lingering doom. The victims some
times hung for days ere they died OF
hunger, exhaustion, loss OF blood. and
the fever Of their wounds."-Hastings'
Dictionary OF Christ. Some modern
writer's regard the cry as the utterance
OF one dying with a ruptured
heart."-Expos. Greek Test. In favor
OF the latter view Is the blood and
water that burst from Christ's side
when 1t was pierced by the soldiers
spear; the blood, exuding from the
heart into the poricardium. had sep.
arated into red clots and q watery
serum. Jesus died literally OF a broken
heart. Thus none the less, but even
the more, he voluntarily laid down
his life for us. The request of the
Jews, that the legs OF the cruciied
should be broken, was for the purpose
OF increasing the agony and thus
Fastening death. since 1t was against
the law (Deut. 21:22, 23) for burial to
take place after nightfall, and the
coming day was the Sabbath, which
was doubly holy az being the first day
Of the Passover. The Scripture fulfilled
In the omission Of breaking Christ's
bones 10 Elk. 12:4G: Zech. 1910.
Joseph OF Arimathaea gave the
body Of Jesus burial. ArImathaea
was probably the modern hiiLvil.
Iage OF Beit-Rima. Is miles east
northeast OF LYDIA. He was "a dis.
ciple Of Jesus. but secretly for fear of
the Jews" "a rich man" (Matthew),
"a good man and a righteous (Luke),
who was looking for the kingdom Of
God" (Luke) which Jesus had
preached. and "a councillor Of honor
able estate" MARK, that Is. q member
of tho %sanhedrim. who had mot con-
sented' (Luke) to the verdict OF the