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Today's Reading: Luke 23:44-56
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Bible Study
Today's passage gives us the fact of Jesus death and burial. More important, Luke wants to help his readers to see that Jesus is innocent.
N.T. Wright says:
He began his book by telling 'Theophilus' that he could rely on these facts. And now that the most vital one is before us he presents his witnesses one by one. The centurion saw what happened, and made his comment. The crowds standing by saw what happened, and went home shocked and sad. Jesus' followers, not least the women, were standing at some distance, but they too saw what happened, and how the body was laid out. Evidence. Eyewitnesses. This is what Luke promised, and this is what he's now giving us.
But it's not just the fact of Jesus' death and burial that Luke is interested in at this point. He is equally clear that Jesus died an innocent, righteous man...Just in case anyone in Luke's audience, perhaps an educated Roman, might comment that if Roman justice executed Jesus then there must have been some reason, Luke presents his Roman witness to make it clear, as he will do in Acts in relation to Paul, that Jesus was not guilty, that he had done nothing worthy of death.
Jesus is innocent, and he died for you and me! Why? What has his death and burial to do with you?
N.T. Wright says:
He began his book by telling 'Theophilus' that he could rely on these facts. And now that the most vital one is before us he presents his witnesses one by one. The centurion saw what happened, and made his comment. The crowds standing by saw what happened, and went home shocked and sad. Jesus' followers, not least the women, were standing at some distance, but they too saw what happened, and how the body was laid out. Evidence. Eyewitnesses. This is what Luke promised, and this is what he's now giving us.
But it's not just the fact of Jesus' death and burial that Luke is interested in at this point. He is equally clear that Jesus died an innocent, righteous man...Just in case anyone in Luke's audience, perhaps an educated Roman, might comment that if Roman justice executed Jesus then there must have been some reason, Luke presents his Roman witness to make it clear, as he will do in Acts in relation to Paul, that Jesus was not guilty, that he had done nothing worthy of death.
Jesus is innocent, and he died for you and me! Why? What has his death and burial to do with you?