Mt. 27:31 Then when they had mocked Him, they took the rob off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified.
Mk. 15:20 And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.
Jn. 19:16 So they delivered Him to them to be crucified. So they took Yeshua and led Him away.
Mt. 27:32 Now as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear His cross.
Mk. 15:21 Now they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross.
Lk. 23:26 Now as they led Him away, the laid hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid th cross that he might bear it after Yeshua.
Cyrene is up in North Africa, and Simon had apparently come for the Passover. Coming in from the country, he finds himself bearing a cross for a condemned Man. However, this leads to Simon’s conversion. Mark points out that he is the father of Alexander and Rufus, and so his family is known. Mark writes his Gospel for Romans, and in the Epistles of Romans (6:13) this Rufus is mentioned. He is now a believer in Rome.
Lk. 23:27 And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him.
Lk. 23:28 But Yeshua, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.”
Lk. 23:29 “For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’”
Lk. 23:30 “Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’”
Source: Hosea 10:8; 23:30
Lk. 23:31 “For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”
Source: Hosea 23:31
The following is an article by Dr. Dwight Pryor tiled “The Green Tree Messiah.” Yeshua is giving a prophecy to the people of Jerusalem. He is actually speaking a parable against Israel which He interprets from Ezekiel 21:1-5. Where He warns of a “flaming fire (severe judgment) that the Lord Himself will kindle Himself against the great forest of the south (Jerusalem and the Temple). So intense will be that fire that ‘every green tree (righteous person) and ‘every dry tree’ (wicked person) shall be devoured.” Using the Rabbinic logic of kal vachomer, Yeshua conveys a stark warning to His mourners: “Look at Me, at My scourged back, My broken body, and the cross that awaits Me. If this is what befalls Me, the Green Tree, – i.e., the Righteous One – how much more will the coming destruction of Jerusalem be for you and the dry trees.” Sadly, forty years later that fiery judgment in fact fell upon Jerusalem after a prolonged siege by the Roman army that left the mothers of Zion weeping for their starving infants. Both the righteous and the unrighteous perished in Jerusalem’s massive destruction in 70 C.E.
Lk. 23:32 There were also two others, criminals, led with Him to be put to death.
The Talmud spells out the exact charge against Yeshua. “There is a tradition, on the eve of the Passover and the Sabbath, they hung Yeshua. The heralds went forth crying, ‘Yeshua goes forth to be execute because He practiced sorcery and seduced Israel and estranged them from their God. If there is anyone who can come forward and give a justifying plea for Him, let him come forward and give information concerning Him.”
Source: BT:Sanhedrin 43a
Mt. 27:33 And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull.
Mk. 15:22 And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of the Skull.
Lk. 23:33a And when they had come to the place called Calvary.
Jn. 19:16 And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of the Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
Golgotha is the Hebrew name for the place where the crucifixion took place. Calvary is the Latin name for Golgotha. There are different ideas as to how the hill upon which Yeshua was crucified got its names. I would like to propose one that you may not have heard of. It concerns David and Goliath. I Samuel 17:24 reads, “And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.” There is an unconfirmed tradition that the skull of Goliath remained in Jerusalem for many years on display. Finally the people got tired of looking at the ugly thing and it was taken outside of the city and buried. It is thought that Golgotha is actually a corrupted spelling of Goliath and that place is where Goliath’s skull was buried; i.e., hence, the name “place of the skull.” This would be in keeping with the prophecy in Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall crush your head and you shall bruise his heel.” When Yeshua’s cross was placed into he ground, it crushed th head of Satan, symbolized by Goliath’s skull. Now this is all conjecture, but is sure would preach good.
Sources: Genesis 3:15; I Samuel 17:24
Mt. 27:34 They gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it.
Mk. 15:23 Then they gave Him wine mingled with Myrrh to drink, but He did not take it.
The leniency of the Pharisees was based on the democratic concept in the Mosaic Law where they believed the accused to be equal to his brothers (Sifre Deut. 25:3; M:Makkoth 3:15). Later, even when the defendant was found guilty, every step was taken to alleviate the pain of death. From this idea came the custom that we see in the New Testament where the wealthy women of Jerusalem carried a potion to a condemned man to deaden his senses before the execution (BT:Sanhedrin 43a). “Rabbi Chia bar Rabbi Ashar said in the name of Rabbi Chesdah, ‘He who goes out to be executed, they give him a grain of frankincense and a cup of wine so that his head became confused.’”
.Sources: Sifre Dut. 25:3; M:Makkoth 3:15; BT:Sanhedrin 43a
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