Jesus crucified
is a place called the Skull of Jesus as walking, leaving Jerusalem in charge of His cross, stopped. For the last time here, His feet trod the soil and the land of Palestine. The time when Jesus was going from place to place, doing good and healing all who were under the influence of the devil: Acts 10.38, is now behind him. After his race is a dead end and bottom of the impasse a cross. That, apparently, and the thing is present and perceived by all those who until the end, disputes the claims of Jesus the Messiah. Three days later, it will be another story ...
In the utter simplicity and leaner, Luke mentions the crucifixion of Jesus and two criminals on the top of the hill. If Jesus is no longer capable of moving the hearts around him are far from peaceful. Raised on the cross, Jesus can not act. But he can see, hear and even speak and pray. And what he sees, hears and says we reported here:
1. what Jesus sees: a large crowd waited. It is relatively easy to manipulate a crowd and to drive it, as have religious leaders, in a fit of mindless violence point: Luke 23.16. But just when the crowd asked: Have we got it right? Not knowing where it stands, the crowd looks: what will happen, hopefully she will tell him if it was right or wrong to ask the condemnation of Jesus.
2. those that Jesus sees and hears : They are mocking her, religious leaders and soldiers. All hold the same thing: if Jesus was what He claims to be, he was proving himself now pulling himself from this predicament in which it is located. Clearly, those who deride did not understand the decision of what is happening here. If Jesus saved Himself, He could save others before God. Jesus must die! It is our thought when, against his interest, he chose to remain on the cross rather than to descend
3. those to whom Jesus speaks. They are two. The first is His Father He asked who to forgive those who caused him this so very wrong, citing as the reason for the pardon their ignorance and blindness. The second is one of the criminals who, in the opposite direction of his companion in misfortune, who marries the words of the mockers who were at his feet, does not require the issuance of his situation but appealed to the mercy of Jesus to ask thanks for sharing with Him His future reign. Jesus assures him. He has no fear to have. Her request will be answered. Even today, he will be with Him in the paradise of God.
It may be that we, too, though in any situation otherwise, we are facing, like Jesus in our ministry to strong demands from people who, they say, want to see the action of God in their lives in one form or another. If God does this or that issue, if involved in a particular way, then they say they believe. The silence of Jesus in this type of request reminds us that it passes through the cross that the manifestation of the power of God's salvation. The refusal of the cross is the refusal of the place from which all the power of resurrection and life of God unfolds! Following the example of the thief saved, God gives us the look, not for what matters here and now but for eternity!
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