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Ep. 10 - The One Where Jesus is Crucified - Part 1 [Mark 14:1 - 15:47]
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In this episode, we begin to have a 3-part discussion about Jesus heading toward the cross. All 4 Gospels give details about Jesus betrayal, arrest, trial, and crucifixion. For this one, we focus all the details laid out in Chapter 14 and 15 of Mark's account.
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I just think it's so clear that throughout the whole thing he's in control. Even though he's getting arrested and he's getting betrayed. But he heals one of the people who's coming out to take him away to kill him. And this is God's plan. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Leader Lounge Podcast. I'm your co-host, Emily Storms.
SPEAKER_01And I'm Chris Storms, Emily's dad. And we come to you each Tuesday with a brand new podcast on a different topic of the Bible. And we've been focusing on stories of Jesus. And the purpose of the Leader Lounge Podcast, the reason we're doing this, is so that we could be a resource for a couple different types of people. Number one, people who um work in youth ministry, you know, Emily and I are both Young Life and Wildlife Leaders, and we love to spend time talking to kids about scripture. And so we like to dive deep and ask questions and be curious about scripture. And we think that's important when we're bringing scripture to live for our teenage friends. And then also, this could be for you if you're a parent and you have a desire to go deeper in scripture with your um with your son or daughter and or multiple sons or daughters. And um, you know, Emily is my daughter and we love reading scripture together. And so this could be a place where we kind of model what that looks like and something that you could do with your families.
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SPEAKER_01That's great. And we said last podcast to be on the lookout for some special bonus episodes. We're gonna be um posting some of those on different specific things um that relate to youth ministry. And so um, yeah, would I encourage you to follow this podcast if you haven't followed it yet? Instead of just going and listening to it, if you follow it, it helps the algorithm and it helps other people find it. So today we're gonna do something a little bit different. So we have reached a point where we're gonna begin talking about the crucifixion. And uh, if you are involved in young life or wildlife, we would call this the crosstalk. So the content that we're gonna cover today and over the next two weeks, so it's gonna be three weeks in a row that we're going to be focusing on the crucifixion because there's so much in the Bible about it. And we're gonna try to bring that to life and ask some curious questions about it. We're gonna start today. We're gonna be in the book of Mark, and um, then the next podcast we will be in Matthew and Luke, and then the third one we will be in the book of John. And so um, yeah, we're gonna start in Mark chapter 14, and you know, this scripture is two chapters basically in Mark. It's chapter 14 and 15. So if you have your Bibles, go ahead and open up. Um, we're not gonna read all of it because we're trying to keep these podcasts to about 20 minutes, and so what we're gonna do with Mark chapter 14 is we're gonna just kind of summarize a little bit of it. We'll read a little bit of the scripture and and kind of give some of our thoughts or questions, ask some questions. And but to summarize it, Luke 14 starts with the plot to kill Jesus. And so there is this plot between one of Jesus' best friends, Judas, and the religious leaders, and they decide that they are going to kind of what's the word, Emily, kind of like contrive or conspire.
SPEAKER_00Scheme.
SPEAKER_01Scheme, that's a good word, to arrest Jesus. And so that's what happens. In verse 10, it says, Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray the hymn to them. And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money, and he sought an opportunity to betray Jesus. If I was giving a talk on the cross, I might start with this, because when I'm when I'm sharing the cross talk, I like to point out the ways that Jesus can identify with us, and the way the way he's going through kind of connects to our world of sin. And so I ask kids, have you ever felt betrayed by a friend? Or have you ever been in a situation where you've been betrayed? Jesus knows exactly what that's like. And then Mark 14 goes on in verse 22 is where the Lord's Supper happens. And then if you go on in verse 26, Jesus begins to tell Peter that he's going to deny him. And Peter says, There's no way I'm going to deny you, right? And then we get to verse 32, where Jesus prays in Gethsemane, and would love for you to read this if you go from 32 to 42, Emily.
SPEAKER_00And then they went to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, Sit here while I pray. And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, My soul is very sorrowful, even to death, remain here and watch. And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed, that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. And he came and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. And he came the third time and said to them, Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough, the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going, see, my betrayer is at hand.
SPEAKER_01What stands out to you in that?
SPEAKER_00So interesting that he just told Peter, I know this isn't Peter's denial yet, but he just told Peter that he will deny him three times. And Peter is so confidently saying, If I I will die with you, like I'll do anything for you. And then he can't even stay up and pray. And three times Jesus goes back and he's sleeping. And then that's even that's before the denial.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I have the same thing underlined. Verse 37. It says he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? And it's interesting, he said he came and found them sleeping, but then he said it to Peter. You know, like he's already identifying Peter as the leader, I guess, and and then also kind of what you were just saying of like he's already told Peter he's gonna deny him, and Peter's already fallen asleep. Um, you know, in the last podcast, I think it was the last podcast, you were mentioning that we didn't have very many of Jesus' specific prayers, but this is one area where we do. Um, and it's interesting, what stood out to me is verse 39. It says, And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. Here's my question. So Mark wrote this, right?
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so and we've talked about how this is probably Peter's account. Like Mark was a close and we there's a story coming up that will we'll point to that a little bit. But um when they were when Jesus was praying, were the disciples within earshot? Like, did they hear him pray, Abba Father, all things are possible for you, remove this cup. Yeah, not my will, but your will, what you will. Or the other option would have been that when Jesus was resurrected, he was going back over all of this to make sure they understood what had happened, and he told them what he prayed. I feel like those are the only two options, right?
SPEAKER_00Verse 35 says he just went a little farther. So it's definitely possible he was within earshot, but it also says they were sleeping. So I don't even if they were within earshot, I don't know that they exactly heard what he was saying.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And that just even that question brings to mind, and this is a side note about scripture. But recently I've been thinking about, you know, the new the rest of the New Testament, and you have the the writings of Paul and John and Peter, and we don't know what happened during the 40 days that Jesus was resurrected and spent time with the disciples, or even the revelation for in Paul's in Paul's instance, like Paul had specific revelation from Jesus, right? Um, so when we're reading their letters, you know, I'm like, man, are we reading things that they're saying because Jesus specifically told them those things? You know what I mean? Um, it's just a thought that I've been having that kind of has has helped me just have more faith and more trust in the New Testament that then I'm like, yeah, Jesus gave them revelation and things to say. But that's a side note. So Jesus is in verse 43. I'll read this part. It says, And immediately while he was still speaking, Judas came one of the twelve, and with him a crowd, with swords and clubs, and the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer was given them a sign saying, The one I will kiss is the man, seize him and lead him away under guard. And when he came he went up to him at once and said, Rabbi, and he kissed him. And they laid hands on him and seized him, but one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. Jesus said to them, Have you come out to arrest a mob a robber with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled. And they all left him and fled. And then let me read this next part. And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body, and they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.
SPEAKER_00And we think that's Mark.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's why I wanted to throw that in there, because yeah, it's a young man. So Mark was like a young man, and we think he was like a kind of like a scribe for for Peter in writing down all of the book of Mark. But what stands out to you about Jesus' betrayal and arrest?
SPEAKER_00I just think it's so clear that throughout the whole thing he's in control, even though he's getting arrested and he's getting betrayed, but he heals one of the people who's coming out to take him away to kill him. And even in verse 49, when he says, But let the scriptures be fulfilled, he basically takes all of their power away. Like he's like, This isn't you, this is because the scriptures have prophesied this and this is God's plan. Um and so he's just showing that even in this moment he's not I think a common maybe it's common, I don't know, um, phrase that I've heard about this is like he wasn't a victim, he was a volunteer and he knows what he's doing, and he um struggled and wrestled with that just a second ago in the garden, but then he knows the plan that the father has and he wants to fulfill that for us and he sees the bigger picture.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And you said that Jesus healed a man's ear, but it doesn't say that.
SPEAKER_00Oop. It says that in another one. It does, and that's another gospel.
SPEAKER_01That's the point that I wanted to make is that you know, part of this podcast is that we would know these stories so well that we would just be able to tell them. And the fact that you know that Jesus heals his ear, do you remember what the man's name is?
SPEAKER_00Malchus.
SPEAKER_01That's correct. Good job. And uh, and it doesn't say here, but who was it that cut off his ear? Peter. Peter. But here it just says uh one of the I think that's funny. If Peter was actually behind the writing of Mark, you know, we already talked about Peter. It doesn't in Mark, it doesn't talk about Peter walking on the water. Um, and it doesn't mention Peter's name here either, even though it does mention Peter's name multiple times in the book of Mark, but in this con in this story it doesn't. Um so okay, we're gonna flip over. So Jesus goes before the council, and um, and we're not gonna go word and verse by verse here, um, because honestly, like when when I give a a uh crosstalk, I try to pull together different parts of scripture from all four of the gospels. And so in a lot of cases, I will say them in my own words, I'll paraphrase, I'll say, hey, and then this happened, you know, and um, and so I think there are points where it is very important that we read from scripture, um, particularly when we get to book the book of John, where Jesus says it is finished, and you know, there's some other parts of Jesus' words that I think are important, but uh, but a lot of this story we can just tell, like we were just talking about Malchus without reading it, right? Um all right, so the end of verse 14, Peter ends up denying Jesus, right? And is there anything else you don't have anything underlined there, do you? No. Okay, great. We're gonna go ahead and go to chapter 15, and um Jesus is delivered over to Pilate. You want to read verses one through five?
SPEAKER_00And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, Are you the king of the Jews? And he answered him, You have said so. And the chief priests accused him of many things, and Pilate again asked him, Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you. But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.
SPEAKER_01Why was Pilate amazed?
SPEAKER_00Because he's probably never led a council or a trial where the person being accused is not making every effort to defend himself.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That's good. Jesus is completely in control and he's not trying to defend himself, he's not trying to get out of being crucified. I love that he's just like, You've said so. It's interesting, he says, Are you the king of the Jews? And Jesus says, You have said so. Um, I've always thought that's interesting. All right, so the next part is uh verse six. It says, Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked, and among the rebels in prison who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them, and he answered them, saying, Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews? For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up, but the chief priest stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. Pilate again said to them, Then what shall I do with the man you call the king of the Jews? They cried out again, Crucify him. Pilate said to them, Why? What evil has he done? But they shouted all the more, Crucify him. So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. So in this part of the scripture, there's two things that really stand out to me. Number one is Barabbas. So when I do a crosstalk, a lot of times, I will just have the kids consider what this day must have been like for Barabbas, right? Um, because I think Barabbas, I mean, this is a real story, but I also think Barabbas is symbolic of us. There was a real Barabbas, he was released from prison, he's a real person, but Jesus took his place, literally took his place on the cross.
SPEAKER_00And so again, it's like the Josiah Queen song.
SPEAKER_01What's the Josiah Queen? The books, Barabbas?
SPEAKER_00I am Barabbas.
SPEAKER_01We'll put a link to that in the show notes.
SPEAKER_00So good.
SPEAKER_01If you haven't heard it.
SPEAKER_00So good.
SPEAKER_01Um, but consider this. Okay, and we've talked before about how we don't we don't tell things as true that are not technically in scripture, right? So I will always just say something like, Hey, consider that this might have, this might have been how it played out, right? Barabbas is in a cell and he knows he's probably going to be executed, right? He's going to be crucified. Meanwhile, there's a crowd outside, and I wonder if Barabbas could hear the crowd. And if he could hear the crowd, he would hear, you know, Pilate says, What do you want me to, or who do you want me to release? Um, and they say, Barabbas. They yell his name, right? So that's the first time I think that the um that the crowd yells. They're yelling out Barabbas. And then Pilate says, Well, what do you want me to do with the king of the Jews? And they yell, crucify him, crucify him. So it's possible that Barabbas in his cell would hear his name being yelled, and then the next thing he would hear is crucify him, crucify him. And then the next thing he would hear is, because they say they Pilate's gonna release him, the next thing they would hear is the guards coming to his cell, and he's probably thinking, Oh, this is it, this is the end of my life. And they open the door and they say, You're free to go. Right? Um, that's powerful. Like, that's like, and he didn't even know that Jesus was gonna take his place, but that's exactly what's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00It's my favorite crosstalk you'd do.
SPEAKER_01Oh, thanks. I have a friend, um, Rob Tolley, over in Tampa, who would actually dress up like Barabbas and tell this story from Barabbas' perspective. It's kind of cool. All right, the next section, um, Jesus is mocked by Oh, oh, going back, sorry, the other part of that section that I read was that um it says that Pilate had Jesus scourged. And if you've if you've been around Young Life, you know, a lot of times uh speakers will talk about the cat of nine tails, and that's what that is, is this scourging is where they they basically strip you, um, at least your back is is exposed, they strap you to a pole, and then they they whip you with what's called a cat of nine tails, and it it had it was had nine leather straps on it, and um, and at the end of each of those straps was a piece of bone or rock or glass or something like that. And and it wasn't just a whip that would like hit you, it was it was a whip that was designed to wrap around you, and then they would yank it back, and so it would pull out your your flesh and basically mutilate you, which later on in the Bible, Paul talks about how Jesus was unrecognizable, you know, and this could have potentially been part of that. Um I've heard a story about when they were doing the Passion of the Christ, the movie, that the guy who was playing Jesus, they put up steel something on his back to keep him from actually getting hit, but one of the pieces actually hit his skin and he passed out from the pain. Yeah, so the other thing about this, there are two things. First, is that we don't know from it doesn't say in scripture that they whipped him 39 times, but we know Paul was whipped 39 times because he said he says that later on, but also history would tell us that they would whip a person 39 times because they believed that if they whip them 40 times, they would die. So the idea was to take it all the way up to the point of death without killing the person so that they could kill them on the cross. And again, that's not in scripture, so we don't tell people that Jesus was whipped 39 times, but we can say something like history would tell us that when they did this, it would be 39 times. And in the next section, it talks about Jesus being mocked. Um, that's verse 16. But let's go ahead and go to verse 21, Emily, and uh we can read that and talk about it.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So verse 21 starts and says, And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross, to carry Jesus' cross. And they brought him to the place called Golgotha, which means place of a skull, and they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them to decide what each should take. And it was the third hour when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, The King of the Jews. And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, saying, Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself and come down from the cross. So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, He saved others, he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
SPEAKER_01So what I love about this is, and we're gonna see it again in a little bit, it names Simon of Cyrene again. Um a little bit later we're gonna see Joseph of Arimathea get named. And I think that that to me shows the reality of the scripture, the truth of the scripture, because both of those guys must have been part of the early church. Or if they weren't, they could have debunked all of this um this story, right? And and even Alexander and Rufus. Like I could see that them being part of the church, like as as they're writing as as Mark is writing this.
SPEAKER_00It always amazes me that like this is the same similar situation to the trial when they're asking him all the questions and he has the opportunity to defend himself and he doesn't. Um he could have any second, he could have just jumped off the cross, had angels, um, and it was probably very tempting. But he doesn't even defend himself to these people who are making fun of him. It actually doesn't mention in Mark that the robbers were also making fun of him, but I'm not sure which gospel it talks about them in detail in. But everybody walking by and everybody underneath the cross were just it says reviling him.
SPEAKER_01That's good. Okay, let me read this this next part. It says here, and when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. So the sixth hour would have been nine o'clock in the morning, and the ninth hour would have been noon. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabathani, which means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And some of the bystanders, hearing it, hearing it, said, Behold, he's calling Elijah, and someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down. And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last, and the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion who stood facing him saw that it was this way, he th I'm sorry, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the younger and Joseph Joseph and Solomon Solome. And when he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_00The veil tearing is always my favorite part of um just this whole passage because it shows like an instant result of his death was to connect God and humanity and this curtain would hang in the temple in between where more people could go, and then um blocking off like the Holy of Holies, where only was it one priest a year went to meet with God? Um and it just was a physical separation between God and his people. And now we don't have that, and because of his death and um eventual, and we'll see later, resurrection, we have the opportunity to go to God at any point in time and just have communion with him and unity with him, which is absolutely incredible because that like was kind of unheard of at that time.
SPEAKER_01Again, bringing this story to life the sixth hour, you know. I mean, focusing on the fact that this was noon, right? Um, and we know that uh in another one of the other gospels it said that it turned pitch black when this happened. So there's so much that's happening at this time. But I want to something that I found out last year. If you look at what Jesus says, he says, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And I have always thought that that was God turning his back, God the Father turning his back on God the Son. Um, but I've always had an issue. I'm like, but Jesus was 100% God, right? So it's not, he doesn't, he never gives up his divinity. And that verse, so here's here's this is really, really cool. Back in Jesus' day, they didn't have a Bible like we have, right? They didn't have numbers on their Bibles, like chapter numbers and everything. So they would memorize scripture, they would identify different scriptures based on the first line of that scripture. Okay. And so when Jesus says, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Everybody would have thought back to Psalm 22, which is um the very first line of it is my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So that's how they would have identified that Psalm. And so Jesus is basically pointing people back to Psalm 22. And let me let me read some of what Psalm 22 says and tell me if this doesn't, it just backs up what he's doing on the cross is what it does. Uh verse 6 it says, But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind, despised by the people. All who seek me mock me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads. He trusts in the Lord, let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him. So it's literally basically word for word what those people are mocking him saying. And then if you look at verse 16, it says, They have pierced my hands and my feet. Verse 18, they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_01That's pretty incredible, right? And and we go back, and what did Jesus say when they arrested him? He's like, so that script the scriptures may be fulfilled. And here he's fulfilling all of these, all of these scriptures, right? You want to go ahead and read, finish this out, verse 42 to the end.
SPEAKER_00And when evening had come, since it was the day of preparation, that is, the day before Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died, and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph, saw where he was laid.
SPEAKER_01Hmm, that's good. A few things stand out to me. First, Jesus was dead, right? The Jews are gonna say, and there's people even today who say that he really wasn't dead. He was just injured, and that he really didn't come back to life. Right? No, he was he was dead. Like these soldiers, these soldiers could have gotten in a lot of trouble if he wasn't actually dead, right? Um, and so he was dead, and that's important for the resurrection.
SPEAKER_00I love how it describes Joseph. It says he's a respected member of the council, but then it says who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, which is pretty cool. We think he was a follower of Jesus, right? Like uh maybe not like hidden, but not maybe not telling everyone he followed Jesus, almost like Nicodemus kind of.
SPEAKER_01I'm glad that you mentioned Nicodemus, because the two of them went together, actually, right? Here it just says Joseph, but we know that Nicodemus was with him. But yes, you're right. I would also like to point out the women. If you look at verse 41 or 40 and 41, it lists a bunch of women, right? And then verse 47 lists women as well. And again, to go to the validity of scripture, if people were just making this up back then and writing fake stories, they would not have included women in those stories because women were not seen as credible witnesses of anything. Um, but Jesus had these women who were around him and who cared for him and followed him, and and even they're the ones who saw where he was laid in the tomb. And that's gonna be important because Mary is the one who goes to the tomb first on Sunday, right? And so um, these are all really important details. And if you're giving, we're gonna we're gonna end here for today, um, and we'll we'll come back the next two weeks and talk about the crucifixion from the the other gospels. But if you are giving a crosstalk to kids, um it's it's really impossible to throw in all of these details.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So my advice would be to read all the stories, take some notes, pray that the Holy Spirit would bring to mind the things that that you need to share with those kids, you know, and um, because we can't share it all, um, but it is really cool to kind of put all four of these gospel stories together and and really get a grasp of what happened that day. Um yeah, the one of the biggest days in all of history, right? This one and then on Sunday, the resurrection. Um, everything, all of human history actually dates back to that now, right? Yes. So awesome. Hey, Emmy, would you pray for us?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the cross. Thank you for um just the work that you did um in sending Jesus to take our place. Um I thank you for the veil that was torn, and now we can come to you and we can pray to you and we can um just truly be in communion with you um and just what a beautiful thing that is. I pray that as we read and research the crucifixion, um, that you would just consistently remind us of your sacrifice and that we would be able to, if we're sharing this with kids, um just give them a picture of how much love you have for them that is shown here um in these passages. And we love you so much, Lord. Thank you for your sacrifice. Amen.
