He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called “the place of a skull”, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha

 Good morning. We now get another indication from John that the last supper was not the Passover. Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover. That would mean that the Passover meal had not been eaten yet. The Jews had to do a lot of things to prepare for the Passover; one of which was to remove all leaven from the house. It was about the sixth hour. According to Jewish time that would’ve been about noon. It could not of been too early in the morning because the cock crowed what seemed like ages ago. Pilate said, probably derisively, behold your king! Away with Him, crucify Him! Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, we have no king but Caesar. So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified. It sounds like he handed Jesus over to the Jews, not the Roman soldiers. They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called “the place of a skull”, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. This is where I have a problem with the Mel Gibson movie, the passion of the Christ. After what Jesus had been through with the scourging, Jesus could not have carried the cross while enduring all the beatings against Him shown in the movie (which I watch every Good Friday). There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. That is such a simple statement for such a horrible act. I read somewhere that when it shows the hand of Jesus when the nail was being driven into it, that it was actually Mel Gibson‘s hand and not the actor’s who played Jesus. Father thank You that such a horrible act resulted in such a great liberation for us. If we had been there, we too, like the disciples would’ve begged You for it to not have happened. We would not have been able to foresee what the end result would be.

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