The Worst Thing That Has Ever Happened Mark 15:16-37

A Purple Robe

A Crown

“Hail, King!”

Falling on Their Knees

Paid Homage

And They Crucified Him

THE KING OF THE JEWS

Hurled Insults

Come Down From the Cross and Save Yourself

He Saved Others He Can’t Save Himself

Heaped Insults On Him

My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

With a Loud Cry

Jesus Breathed His Last

Physical Suffering

“He had Jesus flogged”

“They Crucified Him”

Mockery Ridicule Scorn Contempt

Emotional Suffering

The Pain of Bearing Sin

Isaiah 53:6 “The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all”

1 Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.”

The Pain of Abandonment

My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Psalm 22:1-2 Why are you so far from saving me, So far from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer

2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us”

Habakkuk 1:13 “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; You cannot tolerate wrong.”

Isaiah 53:10 “Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him And to cause him to suffer”

Matthew 17:5 “The Beloved Son of God”

John 6:69 “The Holy One”

Isaiah 9:6 “ Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace ”

1 Corinthians 2:8 “ The Lord of Glory ”

John 1:14 “ The Word made flesh ”

Colossians 1:15 “ The Image of the Invisible God ”

Isaiah 53:5 “ He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;”

Isaiah 53:5 “ He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;”

Hebrews 12:2 “Who for the joy set before him endured the cross scorning it’s shame.”

Mark 10:45 “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Romans 5:6-8 “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.”

Romans 5:6-8 “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possible dare to die.”

Romans 5:6-8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

love

Romans 10:14 “How then can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”

We are God’s witnesses.