There is this:
31 In the same way even the chief priests—together with the experts in the law—were mocking him among themselves “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! 32 Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!”
We who live on the other side of the Resurrection, know that Jesus stayed on that cross so that he could save us.
I pondered this in regards to the part of 15 you mentioned Poppy…
It really exposes the mindset of fallen man/sin: “save yourself”.
Adam and Eve immediately tried to “save themselves” covering themselves up-trying to meet their own needs, afraid, not relying on God anymore as they’re all in all.
Jesus has restored us to Himself. He has set us free from looking at ourselves and willfully deciding how to meet the need us/it/others. We need only look at Jesus, believe, and know, He saves us, and God has/is/will always take care of us. He’s freed us from the mindset/shackles/wage of sin.
AWESOME.
Thanks for your thoughts, as always, Kristina.
As I read this, I thought about what it would be like to witness a public execution. The horror and trauma of seeing someone treated this way, the deterrent that it is to the public for breaking the law, and the obligation of the soldiers to do what they are told and the strategies they must have used to do such things. I am thinking of the executions happening now in Iran, of my refugee friends who fled their homes out of fear of the same fate as Jesus – an unjust capital punishment. We see the crucifixion of Christ portrayed in film and we have read it so much that I think the incredible cruelty of it is hard to imagine. It must have smelled terrible. It must have sounded awful. Why were people watching? Why are public executions attended at all?
Not much form to these thoughts. It just is what comes to mind.