Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-05-21
JESUS DEATH
AND BURIAL
Sunday School Lesson for May a. 1908
Specially Prepared Tor mis- Payer

John 1889, i9:ls The sorrowful way;
Matt. 1882: Mark i5:2i: Luke 2a:es-52;
John 1915 Il. The crucihSion; Matt. n:
:3:45: Mark i5:2s-23; Luke 23:SS; John ~;
1894 The seven words; Matt 2T;li-49;
Mark l5;33-3G; Luke. 1874. So-iG; John 10:
1880 The death: Matt. 27:b0-SG; Mark Is:
G-4i; Luke 23:tg-ta: John i9:50-8. The
burial: Matt, q: 5T-e6; Mark l5;ls-t7; Luke
23:50-t6 John 19:3s-42.
T1AfE.-Fridny. April 7. a. d. 30. from
n M 1.-THE RrresD to p. rn the DEATH
and about p. m. (the burian.
pLACE.-The Garden of Gcthsemane,
tho house OF Annns In Jerusalem, the
castle Of Antonio, Herod'a 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:
/. The informal trial before Annas,
about 1880 a. m.
2. The irregular trial before the
sanhedrim, under CaIaphas. before sun
rise.
3. The formal verdict OF the san.
hedrIm. after sunrise &c n. MI.
4. The trial before PLATE. $3.50 a. m.
8. The trial before Herod, about
1880 n. m.
6. The final surrender by PLATE.
about $50 a, m.
iileaaIltles Of the TRIAL.. The real
trial was held before sunrise. which
was Illegal. The trial after sunrise
was only q 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. The attempt to force Jesus to In
criminate himself.
{. The repeated trials, following re-
peated acquittals, any one OF which
should have brought the proceedings
against Jesus 10 an end.
8. The arbitrary transfer Of the trial
from court to court.
G. The change OF charge against
Jesus, from that OF blasphemy. most
effective in Jewish court. to that Of
sedition, most effective in a Roman
tribunal.
7. The use of popular clamor TO af'
feet the verdict. and compel the Judge
TO pronounce against the defendant.
Our Lord was crucified at the place
called The Skull" Hebrew, GOlgotha;
Latin, Calvary. This was without
the gate" (Heb. 1912. which discred.
its the traditional site. the Church OF
the Holy Sepulcher, far within the
walls OF the present city. II was evi.
IDENTIFY near a road thronged with trav.
elers Matt 27:39). Modern scholars
have fixed upon ''the skull-shaped knoll
above Jeremiah's grotto. outside the
present north wall. near the Damascus
gate. II answers all the requirements
of the Gospel narratives. being outside
the walls, nigh to the city.
Our Lord voluntarily laid down his
life, as he had prophesied John 10:
49,. The loud voice in which he
cried his last words duke 23:46),
showing that his bodily energies were
stilI unexhausted. "Cruciiixlon was
lingering doom. The victims some
times hung for days ere they died OF
hunger, exhaustion, less 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 ruptured
heart."-EXpos. Greek Test. In favor
of the latter view is the blood and
water that burst from Christs side
when 1t was pierced by the soiiier's
spear; the blood, exudlng from the
heart into the pericardium. had sep
arated into red clots and a watery
serum. Jesus died literally OF broken
heart. Thus none the less, but ever
the more, he voluntarily laid down
his life for US. The request Of the
Jews, that the legs of the crucified
should be broken, was for the purpose
OF increasing the agony and thus
fastening death. since Il was against
the law (Deut. 21:22, 23) for burial tC
take place after nightfall. and the
coming day was the Sabbath, which
! was doubly holy as being the first day
OF the Passover The Scripture fulfillet
in the omission OF breaking ChristI
bones 10 Elk. 12:46; Zech. 1910.
. Joseph OF Arimathaea gave thC
body Of Jesus burial. ArimathaeI
was probably the modern hlll.vll
lage OF BeltRima, 10 miles east
northeast of LYDIA He was "a dis
cipie Of Jesus. but secretly for fear o
the Jews" "a rich man" (Matthew)
"a good man and righteous" usukel
who was looking for the kingdom o
God" (Luke) which Jesua has
preached, and "a councillor of honor
able estate" (AIark). that is. a membe
Of the sanhedrim, who had mot con
sented'' (Luke) 10 the verdict Of thu
sanhedrim condemning Jesus. III
went boldly" mark to PLATE, an,
asked for the body OF Jesus. "He 4
no longer secret disciple The eros
transngures towards into heroes. -
Cambridge Bible.
Practical Points.
Let us learn 70 die In seelnI
Chriat "-schleiermacher
The true Christian will come TO hi
last moniont on earth with Christ