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Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday)
Truly this Man was the Son of God!

Mark 15:1-39
Jesus Before Pilate
1Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2"Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate.
"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
3The chief priests accused him of many things. 4So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."
5But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 7A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. 8The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9"Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate, 10knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. 11But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12"What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them.
13"Crucify him!" they shouted.
14"Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
15Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
16The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 17They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!" 19Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. 20And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
The Crucifixion
21A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. 22They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). 23Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.
25It was the third hour when they crucified him. 26The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS. 27They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left. 29Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30come down from the cross and save yourself!"
31In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! 32Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
The Death of Jesus
33At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
35When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah."
36One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
37With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
38The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"

It started on such a high note. Nothing could hold back the crowd in Jerusalem. The people were jubilant – waving their palm branches, shouting hosannas and they were welcoming Jesus as their King into the very city of God! The air was indeed thick with hope.

But who would have thought that in less than a week, the adulations would turn into ridicule and hatred as the crowd turned against Jesus. They had asked for Him to be put through the cruelest form of punishment and their request was granted. In crucifying Jesus on the cross, the world was witnessing one of the darkest moments in the history of humankind. Not only was a sinless person sentenced to die on the cross. It was God Himself who hung on that cross. He was supposed to be the Saviour – the One who had come to save the world and bring deliverance to all who placed their hope in Him. But now, on that cross, He seemed so helpless and forsaken. The darkness that fell over the land only served to confirm the sense of doom.

Just when everything appeared to be lost and hopeless, a declaration was made by, of all people, the centurion who had witnessed all that had taken place. His words like a beam of glorious light seemed to penetrate the darkness of the gloom that hung in the air. “Truly this man was the Son of God!” Somehow, through all that had happened, he was able to see that this was what Jesus had earlier described Himself to be. Though he might not have fully anticipated what was to follow, the centurion spoke for all who believed and would believe: “It was Friday and my Jesus was dead on the cross. But that was Friday and Sunday’s coming!”
Commitment:
I surrender my sense of hopelessness and despair, as well as the inability to see beyond my Fridays into the coming Sundays.

Prayer:
Lord Jesus, help me to be able to always declare, “Truly, you are the Son of God!” Help me to believe that you are always present in the midst of all that we go through and especially in situations of extreme difficulties and daunting challenges. Amen.




All Lent Devotion materials are taken from 'Take Up Your Cross' - Daily Devotion for Lent 2009 by Bible Society of Singapore.

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