Today's Passage: Luke 23
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be a part of this crowd? Growing up, my church always put on a fairly large Easter musical. I can remember this part when the choir would shake their fists in the air and sing, "Barabbas! Give us Barabbas!" And when the man playing Pilate would ask what to do with Jesus, they would shout, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" I never understood how it had gotten to that point. Just 20 minutes earlier this same choir had been waving palm leaves and calling, "Hosanna," in praise.
We've all seen a widely acclaimed and beloved celebrity do something wrong and become infamous for that behavior, falling out of grace with the crowd. But Jesus was not a celebrity...He was the Messiah...and He had done no wrong. That's what always bothered me so much about the angry mob of a choir...Jesus had done nothing wrong.
As you go about your day, contemplate that one thought: Jesus was perfectly sinless. Yet He took on our sin so that we might be saved. His suffering involve more than the physical pain that He endured. He bore our sin...for which we should be eternally thankful!
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