Matthew 27:1–10
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The story of the world hinges on a great reversal. God became man, the immortal put on mortality, the righteous was treated as a sinner, and life came through death. But in the passion of our Lord, we see another kind of reversal, a dark and tragic one. We see a man who walked with God in the flesh, who saw the miracles, who heard the sermons, who was a minister of the gospel, and who cast out demons. And we see him reverse his course entirely, ending his life in despair, hanging from a tree, a son of perdition. At the same time, the Son of God is handed over to his own death, also on a tree, so that sons of perdition might become sons of God. This passage is a tale of two counsels, two transactions, and two deaths.