Jesus on the way to His crucifixion
Jesus's fate sealed by the cowardly decision of Pilate, He was taken by the Roman soldiery to where it should be crucified. Note that by asking his death to Pilate, the Jewish leaders knew full well what kind of end they betray him. If they had kept demand a trial against Jesus, he would have been possible in their defense, to stress their willingness to use justice as a point of difference that opposed him. But this is not the case. By their attitude and insistence, clearly stated, to see Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus is not the pursuit of justice, but their hatred of Christ that the chief priests and leaders express. "Men," said Blaise Pascal, never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do their religious belief. "See Jewish spiritual leaders of the nation demand a hue and cry that is inflicted upon one who by far is better than them, but the embarrassment, the way to the most refined torture that has been invented by the Romans, is the most demonstrative proof!
On the road that leads Jesus to the cross, Luke identifies three well-known facts:
1. Requisition of Simon of Cyrene, an African, to carry the cross with Jesus and behind. Without putting in place of a prophecy, this division of the cross between Jesus and Simon is highly significant for what would happen between Jesus and many Africans in the rest of the story. If there is a race which, like that Jesus lives here, will be abused, enslaved, despised and considered as less than nothing, it is unquestionably the black race, dominant in Africa. If blacks have shared the fate of Jesus in history, they are also those who may be best tasted the consolations that come from experience to carry the cross with Him, and be both identified him and behind him! Their gospels, in which shine their aspirations, which are sung today millions of Christians, are living witnesses!
2. an exchange of words between the daughters of Jerusalem and Jesus. Seeing the women who were on the roadside lamenting Him Jesus corrected their views. Between him and them, made them understand it, the worse off is not Him. What awaits Jesus, of course, is terrible and indescribable. But what awaits women of the city, while she had the opportunity, denied the peace that God gave him: Luke 19.41 to 44, will have for themselves and the generations that will succeed them a serious and painful range! Following the story, which will destroy the city and nation and the dispersion of Jews outside their countries for almost 19 centuries, is striking proof of Jesus' words.
3. adding His alongside two criminals on the road to the cross: a company which is the literal fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah says about the fate of the coming Messiah, the Suffering Servant being numbered with the transgressors: Isaiah 53.12 .
In view of the stage, the question arises for all of us! Where would we found, among which the public path that leads Jesus to the cross?
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