Lessons From Matthew 27: Jesus’ Crucifixion

When was the last time you had the opportunity to witness or hear about a real live love story?

Probably not often enough! But if you have, I’m sure it has renewed your heart and encouraged your mind and given you new hope!

Today’s lesson is indeed the greatest love story ever lived and told. It’s His story! The love story of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It’s the story of how the Son of God willingly laid down His life. He did it so that we, lost sinners, might be raised to new life through His selfless act of obedience to His Father and His denial of self!

The words of His story have been preserved for any individual who is willing to dig deep into His Word and seek His understanding!

And in doing so the listener, or reader will be not only touched, but transformed if they willingly allow the Spirit of the living God to do so.

Jesus Christ willingly laid down His life that believers might be raised to new life, both now and for eternity!

It is important for us to note that Matthew’ s intent in writing was not to draw out the divine acts of suffering by the Lord Jesus Christ. (We do learn more about this from the others gospel accounts, however.) Matthew’s main intent here was more focused on the responses of the people and the miraculous events that took place as a result of Jesus’s crucifixion, death, and burial.

And so with that in mind, let’s dig in and see what God has for us in Matthew 27.

Jesus’s Crucifixion

In Matthew 27:32-44 Jesus was in His final hours of life here on earth. He had suffered much at the hands of man, those whom He had created and given life. He had come to suffer and die for people in order to bring about their desperate need of salvation from the penalty of sin.

Jesus suffered more in a brief period of time than any other human being ever has or will. And He did it for us.

Jesus had been falsely accused, arrested, abandoned by those He loved. He surrendered Himself to an unfair and unjust trial in which the Jewish religious leaders violated and broke most of their own laws in order to have Jesus killed.

He was abused and beaten and flogged just short of death. In fact, we are told that He was beaten and flogged beyond human recognition.

And if that wasn’t enough, He was continuously mocked and ridiculed by the very people He had come to save.

Terri Hamman

Faith & Fitness Coach