The Yale expositor., 1908-05-22
JESUS DEATH
AND BURIAL
Sunday School Lesson for May "a. 1908
Specially Prepared for This Paper

LIZ
GOLDEN TExT.-"Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures. i COR
1873
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. The
trial: Matt 26:57, 27:l4; Mark H;5S. Do
Inc OLA 22:ls: John lS:12-3S. The choice:
Matt. g7l5-3l Mark 1850: Luke S:lI-2o;
John 1893 1916 The sorrowful way
Matt. 27:32; Mark 15:sl Luke 1880,
John 1915 IL. The crucihxion: MATT -
:s:4S: Mark l5:22-s; Luke S@; I9h l1, 40 80
1924 The seven words: Matt ~ :A-S'
Mark 15:33-36; Luke, 1874. 1915; John ~
$50 The death: Matt 27:5O-56: Mark 10;
37-41 Luke % :46-49 John l9:SO-5i: Inc
burial: Matt q: 57-66; Mark b:42-47 Luxe
2350-56: John 19:3S-D
1 a. m. (the arresD to .. m. Ohe death)
and about p. m Che BURIAL
PLACE-The Garden OF Gethsemane'
the house OF Annas in Jerusalem the
castle OF Antonio. Herod palace ."
| 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.
.. The irregular trial before the
sanhedrim, under Caiaphas, before sun
rise.
3. The formal verdict of the san
hedrim after sunrise (6 a. ND
A. The trial before PLATE, $50 a. m.
5. The trial before Herod, about
1880 a m.
g. The final surrender by PLATE,
about 8: 80 a. m.
IlIeqalties of the TRIAL.. The real
trial was 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 fair trial
3. The attempt to force Jesus to In
criminate himself.
4. The repeated trials, following re-
peated acquttals. any one OF which
should have brought the proceedings
against Jesus to an end.
5. 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
sedition. most effective in a Roman
tribunal
T. 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 1.-The Skull" Hebrew, Golgotha;
Latin, Calvary. This was without
the gate" (Heb. 1870 which discred-
it's the traditional site, the Church OF
the Holy Sepulcher, far within the
walls of the present city. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY near a road thronged with trav-
elers Matt. 2739). Modern scholars
have fixed upon "the skull-shaped knoll
above Jeremah's grotto, outside the
present north wall, near the Damascus
gate. It 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 2346),
showing that his bodily energies were
still unexhausted. "Crucifxion was
a 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 ruptured
J art."-Expos. Greek Test. In favor
of the latter view is the blood and
water that burst from Christs side
when it was pierced by the soldiers
9 spear; the blood. exuding from the
d heat into the pericardium, had sep
g arated into red clots and a watery
II serum. Jesus died literally of broken
heart. Thus none the less. but even
h the more, he voluntarily laid down
l. his life for us. The request of the
s Jews, that the legs of the crucifled
should be broken, was for the purpose
+: of increasing the agony and thus
S Fastening death, since it was against
2 the law (Deut. 21:22, 23) for burial to
take place after nightfall. and the
coming day was the Sabbath, which
was doubly holy as being the first day
n, of the Passover. The Scripture fulfilled
Is in the omission of breaking Christ $
r. bones is Ex. 1916; Zech. 1910.
II Joseph of Arimathaea gave the
y body of Jesus burial. Arimathaea
% was probably the modern hill-vil-
in lage of Beit.Rima, 13 miles east
n. northeast of LYDIA. He was "a dis
ciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of
al the Jews" "a rich man" Matthew
i'd "a good man and a righteous" Guke)
"a who was looking for the kingdom of
TX God" (Luke) which jesus had
preached. and "a councillor of honor
a able estate MARK. that is. member
ry of the sanhedrim, who had mot con.
to sented' (Luke) to the verdict of the
ne sanhedrim condemning Jesus. He
A went boldly" Mark to PLATE. and
IT, asked for the body of Jesus. "He is
I'd no longer a secret disciple. The cross
transfgures towards into heroes
Cambridge Bible.
Practical Points.