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Today's Reading: Luke 23:13-26
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Bible Study
Today's passage gives us a pictures of three group:
1. Barabbas: The bad guy who was a well-known criminal. Deserve to be crucified! What has Barabbas to do with Us?
N.T. Wright says:
All sinners, all rebels, all the human race are invited to see themselves in the figure of Barabbas; and, as we do so, we discover in this story that Jesus comes to take our place, under condemnation for sins and wickednesses great and small. In the strange justice of God, which overrules the unjust 'justice' of Rome and every human system, God's mercy reaches out where human mercy could not, not only sharing, but in this case substituting for, the sinner's fate.
We are all sinners! Jesus takes our place so that we can become a new person and a disciple of Jesus. How can we find those Barabbas leading them to Jesus so that they can live? This is our life-long story!
2. Simon of Cyrene: Poor guy who carried the cross for Jesus! What has Simon to do with Us?
N.T. Wright says:
On several occasions in the gospel Jesus has urged his followers to take up their cross and follow him. Here at last someone is doing so, and even more: carrying Jesus' own cross, Simon becomes the model for all those who, in devotion, holiness and service, tread behind Jesus on the road of humility, pain and even death.
Simon did not want to carry the cross for Jesus. He had come on pilgrimage to Jerusalem from North Africa. Just like what Michelle and I did a month ago in Jerusalem. We never knew how he felt, but it must be a big, big experience. Because he became a bishop of the early church in later time.
3. The crowds: What? The crowds? What have the crowds to do with us?
N.T. Wright says:
Though Barabbas and Simon are the key to this passage, we should once more notice the crowds, and sorrowfully identify with them. The mixture of disappointment at a failed messianic movement, and fear of what might now happen if the Romans or the chief priests regarded them as supportive of its leader, drove the mob to make what all history has regarded as the wrong choice.
How often have we made the same choice when our bishop, priest, pastor and our church cannot meet our needs and we become one of those people who stir up rebellion to pull someone down or just leave the church for another messianic hope, think that another church can meet our need! That's when we become like the mob crucifying our church, our leader, and actually we are crucifying Jesus!