Matthew 27:33–56
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Every story, every empire, every life, and every moment in human history either leads up to the cross of Jesus Christ or flows away from it. The cross is the central hinge of all time. It is the point on which the entire cosmos turns. This is not just a place of execution; it is the great battlefield where the long war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent reaches its terrible and glorious climax. Our modern sensibilities, even our Christian ones, want to rush past this scene. We are embarrassed by the blood, the nakedness, the shame. But the world was not saved by a respectable savior. The world was saved by a man who was stripped, beaten, mocked, and nailed to a tree to die a criminal's death. The world sees this as the ultimate defeat, the tragic end of a good man with bad luck.