This gospel presents before us the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, as the eternal Son of God. We can never under-emphasize the fact that he, this is the man, Jesus, the man Yeshua, from Nazareth, is more than just another man. If he was only another man, just like you and I, without being the eternal Son of God, he would be a sinner. But because he is the eternal God who took union, humanity with his divine nature, entering into this world, becoming a man, this is why he is the holy one, the harmless one, the undefiled one, the separate from sinners, the one that was qualified to provide, this is why he is the holy one.

This is why he is the holy one, this is why he is the holy one, this is why he is the holy one, the harmless one, the undefiled one, the separate from sinners, the one that was qualified to provide for us salvation, to become the sacrifice, to become the sacrifice, to become the substitute, to become the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of this world, to become the Mashiach of Israel and the Savior of the world. And that's why this John's gospel is so important to understand, because John, Yohanan, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Ruach Ha'elohim, he seeks to present before us that here is the promised Messiah, the Emmanuel of Isaiah chapter 7, the El Gibor of Isaiah chapter 9, the Son, kiss the Son of Psalm 2, the one who is the creator of this universe, who is the eternal Son of God.

As we read, and I'm reemphasizing this once again, in the beginning of this gospel of John, where John wrote, in the beginning was the word, the Mimra in Hebrew, the Logos in Greek, the one that everything consists by him, the creator of this universe. In the beginning was the word, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, a distinct person from God, and yet, and the word was God, he was divine, he was God the Son. In other words, in the triunity of the Godhead, we have the three persons of the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Elohim ha'abba, Elohim ha'ben, Elohim ha'ruach.

One God, one God, three persons are in this Godhead. And then we read in John 1, 14, and the word became flesh. He took union, humanity with his divine nature. This is the virgin birth, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends. The writer to the Hebrew believers of the first century said to them, For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

He became a Hebrew, he became a Hebrew man that lived upon the face of this earth. His name is Yeshua, Ham Mashiach, Jesus the Messiah, who came to pay for the sin of this world. And when we enter here, beloved friends, into the 19th chapter of the Gospel of John, we are presented with the crucifixion of the Mashiach, with the slivat Yeshua HaMashiach in Hebrew, where the Romans ultimately have placed the Messiah on the tree, on the cross, fulfilling that which was written by the prophets of Israel in 22nd Psalm and verse 16, they pierced my hands and my feet. And here, beloved brothers and sisters, we have arrived to this very crucial, sad chapter, yet this very important chapter of John chapter 19.

In verses 1 to 16, we will read concerning the fact that Pilate, first of all, we see him as he is seeking to satisfy the people, Pilate presenting Yeshua before the people, Pilate a conversation with Yeshua, with Jesus, and Pilate decision to sentence Yeshua the Messiah to death in the first 16 verses of John chapter 19. So please follow me as I am reading these 16 verses of John chapter 19. And we read, Then Pilate therefore took Yeshua, Then Pilate therefore took Yeshua, Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorn, and put it on his head. And they put on him a purple robe, and said, Hail, King of the Jews!

And they smote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, And saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, That ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorn, And a purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the men, Hine ha-ish. When the chief priests therefore and the officers saw him, They cried out, saying, Crucify him! Crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him! For I found no fault in him! The Jews answered him, We have a law, And by our law he ought to die, Because he made himself the Son of God.

When Pilate therefore heard that, Saying he was the more afraid, And he went again into the judgment hall, And said unto Yeshua, Whence art thou? But Yeshua, This is Jesus, Gave him no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not, That I have power to crucify thee, And have power to release thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, Except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivereth me unto thee Has the greater sin. And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, Saying, If thou let this man go, Thou art not Caesar's friend.

Whosoever maketh himself a king, Speaketh against Caesar. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, He brought Yeshua forth, Sat down in the judgment seat, In a place that is called the pavement, But in the Hebrew Gavata. And it was the preparation of the Passover. And about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold your king. But they cried out, Away with him. Away with him. Crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore, Unto them to be crucified. And they took Yeshua, And led him away. Beloved brothers and sisters, This passage, In the first 16 verses, Of John chapter 19, Is a very moving passage, Is what we see here, Is the last moments, Before the Lord Jesus the Messiah, Will be taken, And be crucified, By the Romans.

To remind you that, In the 18th chapter, Once Judas, Once Judas betrays Yeshua, And took him to Caiaphas, And from Caiaphas, Now to Pilate, The whole night, Have passed by. And early in the morning, The crew and Peter deny his Lord, Three times. And now we find ourselves, Yeshua, Before Pilate, Early in the morning. And soon enough, At about 9 a.m. In the morning, He will be placed, On a Roman cross. To remind you that Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, Was on the cross for six hours. From the morning, The morning sacrifice, And He ultimately died, In the evening sacrifice, Sometime between 3 to 6 p.m. In the afternoon, On that day, Here, In that, Scene that we have, In John chapter 19.

So I want you to notice, That once we have, Concluded chapter 18, We read that Pilate, Said to the Jewish leaders of Israel, Who should have recognized, That Yeshua is indeed the Messiah, And he said to them, In verse 39, In verse 40, Of chapter 18, Ye have a custom, That I should release unto you, One at the Passover, Will ye therefore, That I will release unto you, The King of the Jews? And you remember what they cried, The leaders, When they cried again, They said to him, Not this man, But Bar Abba, Bar Abbas. Now Bar Abba, Was a robber. The choice, Was that the release, Will not be Yeshua, Who is indeed, The son of the father, Ben Ha Abba, But instead, They have chosen, The robber, Whose name was Bar Abba, The son of the father.

He was a robber, This Bar Abba that was released, But Yeshua was truly, The eternal son of God, Who came from heaven, To provide redemption, In accordance with the plan, And the program of God. You can see that while God, In graciousness, In love for humanity, Is providing here, His son, The son of the father, As man, To become, The sacrifice, The Mashiach, The anointed one. Yet, You can see how, In wickedness, In sinfulness, Both, The Jews, And the Gentiles, The leaders, Of the nation of Israel, And the leaders, Of the nations of the world, Together, Council together, And they come, Against the Messiah, Not even recognizing, That what they are doing, Is exactly that, Which was known by God, That will happen.

And sure enough, When we enter into chapter 19, We learn, Four things that Pilate, Is being presented here, Before us doing. Number one, In verses one, Two, Three, And four, Pilate hopes, To satisfy the people, But yet, He scourged, And he mocked, Jesus the Messiah. Notice what we read, In verse one, We read, Then Pilate therefore, Took Jesus, And scourged him. Now this is very, Sad, What we see here, Before us. Verse two, Continued to tell us, And the soldiers, Played to the crown of thorn, And put it on his head, And they put on him, A purple robe, And they said, Hail, King of the Jews, And they smote him, With their hands.

Now notice, Notice these first three verses, Show us, Exactly what the prophet of Israel, Isaiah said, Concerning the Messiah, When he will come, That he will be, Not only rejected, But he will be despised, And ultimately beaten, You see, When the soldiers, Here we read, In the first three verses, Of John 19, They scourged him, And they placed upon him, A crown of thorns, And they mocked him, By putting upon him, A purple robe, And they were laughing at him, And saying to him, Oh look, You are the king, Of the Jewish people, And they again, Smote him, With their hands, They were fulfilling, That which was written, By Isaiah, Some 750 years, Before the

Messiah, Came into this world, Before Yeshua came, Isaiah said, In Isaiah chapter 52, Which is part of chapter 53, From verse 13, We read, Isaiah 52 and verse 13, Behold my servant, Shall deed prudently, He shall be exalted, And extolled, And shall be very high, And yet, Beloved brothers and sisters, We read, Concerning the servant, Of Jehovah, The servant of the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, As many were astonished at thee, His visage, Was so marred, More than any man, And his form, More than the sons of men, In other words, That expression, His visage, Had to do with, His appearance, How did he appear, Before the people, After he was beaten, By the Romans, Here

we find out, That we read about him, In Hebrew, The word, Ken mishchat, Meish, Marehu, His visage, Was so marred, More than any man, In other words, The appearance, Of Yeshua the Messiah, Was so marred, Because of the way, In which that he was treated, Here, As we read, In John, Chapter, Nineteen, In the first three verses, Notice again, Beloved brothers and sisters, Pilate took him, He took him, And he, Scourged him, This is verse one, Then verse two, His soldiers, They put, Upon him, A crown, That is made, Out of thorn, You remember, That it is the judgment, The curse, That fell upon humanity, Because of sin, That God, Said in Genesis, Chapter three,

Concerning the judgment, That will fall, Upon Adam, And his descendants, Do you remember, What we read, Concerning the curse, We read, Thorns, And thistles, Shall it bring forth, The ground to thee, And thou shall eat, The herbs of the field, In other words, The thorns, And the thistles, Were growing, From this earth, Because of the sin, Of Adam and Eve, It was part of the curse, Now beloved, Brothers and sisters, And dear friend, Pilate, And his soldiers, Are not only scourging him, But they made, A crown, That made out of thorns, And shoved it, On the head, Of the Messiah, Yeshua himself, And therefore, You can just imagine, They scourged him, In verse one, They

placed upon him, This crown, Made of thorns, And then, They continued, To smite him, As we read here, In verse three, They said, Hail, King, Of the Jews, Hail, King, Of the Jews, And we read, And they smote him, With their hands, What a, A sad activity, Or action, That they took here, Concerning, The person of Yeshua, The Messiah, And we learn from these beloved brothers and sisters, The fulfillment, Of Isaiah 52, And verse 14, That his visage, Was so marred, More than any man, And his form more than the sons of men, Can you just imagine, What these soldiers have done unto him, In fact, If we turn to Matthew, We will see the

progress, Because in the gospel of Matthew, In chapter 26, And verse 67, We do read, Then they did spit in his face, And they buffered him, And others smote him with the palms of the hand, This happened at Caiaphas, Where he did this to Yeshua, The Messiah, And then when we arrive to Matthew chapter 27, And verse 27, Here we find out what the soldiers did to Yeshua, Then the soldiers of the government threw Jesus into a common hall, And they gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers, And they stripped him, And they put on him a scarlet robe, And when they had plated a crown of thorn, They put it upon his head,

And a reed in his right hand, And they bowed the knees before him, And they mocked him, Saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And they spit upon him, And they took a reed, And smote him on the head. No wonder, Beloved brothers and sisters, We read, That his face was so marred, More than any man, And his form more than the sons of men. Isaiah 52 and verse 14, And our beloved Mashiach, Have suffered by the hands of men, Whether it is from among the leaders of Israel, Or whether it is from among the leaders of the Gentile world, Yeshua the Messiah suffered by the hands of men, Doing his ministry, And ultimately now, As he is anticipating to go, To die for the sin of this world. And so here we see the suffering of the Messiah, By the hands of men.

This is not yet the cross, Where he will suffer by the hand of a holy and a righteous God, Who will turn away his faith from him, And will lay upon him the sin of this world. Here he suffers by the hands of men. So whether it is Anas, Hanan, Or whether it is Kayafas, Kayafa, Or whether it is Pilate, Or whether it is the soldiers, Yeshua the Messiah suffered by the hands of wicked men. And so fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah, As many were astonished at thee, His visage was so marred more than any man, And his form more than the sons of men.

And so, beloved brothers and sisters, As we read these first three verses, Pilate was hoping to satisfy the people. And yet, at the same time, He is scourging Yeshua, Mocking Yeshua, Placing upon him a crown of thorns, Scourging him, Smiting him, And mocking him, Saying, Hail the king of the Jews, Melech a-Yehudin. Hail the king of the Jews. And the word for hail, The king of the Jews, Come from the Hebrew word, Yechi melech a-Yehudin. In other words, May the king of the Jewish people live. And yet, They were now ready to send him to die. What a mockery, A pilot presented here before us.

In fact, He was actually, By saying, Do you want me to release to you, The king of the Jews? In other words, Do you want me to release Yeshua? And they said, Not Yeshua, But Barabbas, Pilate really never intended to release him. He ultimately wanted him to be sent, To be crucified. And yet, Notice this, Is a combination of the guilt of both Jews and Gentiles. All of us, By nature, Are guilty in the death of Yeshua, The Messiah. And so, In verse 4, We read, Pilate once again saying, I have found no fault in him. Notice this, In verse 4, Pilate therefore went forth again, And he says unto them, Behold, I bring forth to you, That ye may know, That I find no fault in him.

Well, If you didn't find any fault in him, Why did you scourge him? If you didn't find a fault in Yeshua, Why did you place upon him a crown of thorn? If you didn't find any fault in him, Why did you put upon him a purple robe, And allow the Romans to mock him? Saying, May the king of the Jews live, When you are intending now to send him to be crucified, To die. Well, This is the condition of Pilate. And this is the human condition. And this is exactly in accord with the plan, And the foreknowledge of God, Who knew that the way in which The Messiah will be treated At his first coming here, To this world.

What a truth that God knew, And yet we know how the human heart is. In fact, In the book of Acts, When Shimon Petros, When Simon Peter presented before the people of Israel, The fact that Jesus, That Yeshua was indeed the Messiah, You remember what we learned as he was presenting Jesus to the house of Israel, He did say to them, The truth concerning what God wanted to do, In order to provide redemption for mankind, And yet what men will do to the person of the Lord Jesus. God wanted to send the Messiah in order to provide redemption, And yet at the same time, Men by nature crucified the Lord Jesus.

Listen to this verse in Acts chapter 2, In verse 23, Him, This is the Messiah Jesus, Being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. This is God's plan. Before time, He knew that He will have to send the Messiah To die for the sin of this world. This is in love for humanity. And yet, In verse 23b we read, Yet he said, Ye have taken, And by wicked hand have crucified, And slain. In other words, God's sovereignty, And yet man's responsibility. God's act of love, And man, This is all of us, All humanity, Act of sinfulness, Wickedness, In allowing the Messiah to die on the cross, To crucify and slain Him.

And so, While we read in the first four verses, Pilate's hope to satisfy the people, And yet, He is mocking Him, And scourging Him, And ultimately, Placing upon Him a crown of thorns. Then in the next verses, Verses 5 and 6 of John chapter 19, He is now presenting, Jesus the Messiah, Before the people. He is presenting now, Jesus the Messiah, Before the people. And so we read, Beloved brothers and sisters, In verses 5 and 6, These words, Listen to this, We read, Then came Jesus, Yeshua, He came forth wearing, Notice the crown of thorns, And a purple robe, And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man. When the chief priests therefore, And the officers saw Him, They cried out, Saying, Crucify Him, Crucify Him, Pilate saith unto them, Take ye and crucify Him, For I found no fault in Him.

Now notice this again, How Pilate was playing, With the Jewish leaders, And the Jewish people there. He is bringing Yeshua forth, After he scourged Him, Placed a crown of thorns on Him, Put a purple robe on Him, Mocking Him, Then smiting Him, With their hands on His face, And all over Him, Then He is coming out, Bringing Yeshua, And He is in mockery, In laughter, We might say, Saying to the people, Behold the man, Behold the man. In other words, In other words, This was done, Beloved friends, And dear brothers and sisters, In mockery, In mockery, Hine ha-gever, Or hine ha-ish, Look, Here is that man, Here is that man, Look at the man.

Well, beloved friend, This is the man of God's counsel. This man is the man, That God found joy in. Yeshua is God's man. All of us, Who are men and women, Who are descendants of Adam and Eve, We are sinners. We fail.

And when God is looking at us, And God is seeing us, And how we lived our life here in this world, We find out by the psalmist of Israel, That God looked from above, To see if there is any, Any that is seeking to please Him, Any that seek God, Any that understand, Psalm 14, But notice what we read, The fool says in his heart, There is no God, They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none that doeth good, The Lord looked down from heaven, Upon the children of men, Bnei ha'adam, To see if there were any, That did understand, Any that did seek God, But they have all gone aside, They

have all together become filthy, There is none that doeth good, Not no one, They all are workers of iniquity, No knowledge, And you see, Beloved brothers and sisters, All have sinned, And come short of the glory of God, But here is the man, His name is Yeshua, Jesus, He is the man of God's counsel, He is the man, That gave God joy, He is the man, Of whom we read, In Matthew chapter 3, As he was, There being, Under the water of immersion, There when, Yohanan ha'madbil, Have placed him, Under water, And we have, This voice, That came from heaven, In Matthew 3, 17, Saying, This is my beloved son, In whom I am well

pleased, And yet, Pilatus, Pilate, Mocking him, Saying, Behold, The man, Hine ha'ish, Hine ha'gever, In mockery, In other words, He was really mocking, Both the Jewish people, As well, As the man, By the name, Of Jesus, By the name of Yeshua, Well, The chief priest, Of course, Who didn't want to recognize, That he was the Messiah, They, Therefore, And the officers, When they saw him, That man, They cried, With a loud voice, And they said, Crucified him, Crucified him, And you know, That really reminds us, Exactly, What once again, We read in the prophecy, Of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 53, In verse 1, Who has believed, A report, And to whom, Is the arm, Of the

Lord, Revealed, He, Shall grow up, Before him, As a tender plant, As a root, Out of a dry ground, He has no form, No comeliness, And when we shall see him, There is no beauty in him, That we should desire him, Verse 4, Of Isaiah 53, Verse 3 and 4, He is despised, And rejected of men, A man of sorrow, And acquainted with grief, And we hid, As it were, Our faces from him, He was despised, And we esteemed him not, And of course, Verse 4, Later on, In the future day, Israel will say, Surely is born our grief, And carried our soul, And we did esteem him, Stricken, Smitten of God, And afflicted, And

therefore they cried, Crucify him, Crucify him, And Pilate says unto them, In verse 6, Take ye him, And crucify him, For I found no fault in him, He didn't intend, To let Yeshua Jesus go, Because, He already, As we just read, In the first three verses, Of John 19, He scourged him, He placed upon him, A crown of thorns, He placed upon him, A purple robe, He mocked him, As the king of the Jews, They smote him, In his face, With their fists, And indeed, Fulfilling, Isaiah, Chapter 52, And verse 14, His visage, Was so marred, More than any man, And his form, More than the sons, Of men, And so, While he was saying,

You take him, And you crucify him, He says, I found no fault in him, And yet, If you find no fault, In one man, Why do you smite him?

Why do you scourge him? Why do you place upon him, A crown of thorns? Why do you disfigure him?

This is the human heart, And that is where, Pilate was guilty, In that which he had done, You notice, Beloved friend, The guilt of everyone, That we see there, In this event, Of John chapter 18, And John chapter 19, This is once again, Remind us, Of what the, Prayer of the, Early Hebrew, Christians, The early Hebrew believers, In Acts chapter 4, When they were praying, That which actually, They understood, And read, When they prayed, In Acts 4, 27, For the truth, Against thy holy child, Jesus, Whom thou has anointed, Both Herod, And Pointeous Pilate, And with the Gentiles, And the people of Israel, Were gathered together, For to do whatsoever, Thy hand, And thy counsel,

Determined, Before to be done, They prayed that prayer, Knowing now, The guilt of all, All of humanity, With the death of the Messiah, And so, Beloved brothers and sisters, And dear friends, As we are, Now, Reading for verse 7, To 11, Of John chapter 19, We find the third thing, Concerning the activity, Of Pilate, Verses 1 to 4, He was hoping, To satisfy the people, Yet he scourged, Yeshua, And he mocked him, In verses 5 and 6, Pilate presents, Yeshua, Before the people, Before the people, Saying, Behold the man, Behold the man, Beloved brothers and sisters, To remind you, That John, John the baptizer, In John 1, Verse 29, Says, Behold the Lamb of God,

That taketh away, The sin of this world, He is the man, He is the man, Of God's counsel, He is the man, That was sent, By God, In order to provide, Salvation, For mankind, In fact, In Hebrews chapter 12, We read in verse 1 and 2, Wherefore, Sin we also are compassed about, With so great cloud of witnesses, Let us lay aside, Every weight, And the sin which thou, Doth so easily beset us, And let us run with patience, The race that is set before us, Looking unto whom?

Looking unto that man, Looking unto Yeshua, The author and the finisher of faith, Who for the joy that was set before us, For him and do the cross, Despising the shame, And he sat down at the right hand, Of the throne of God, Behold the man, While for Pilate, It was in mockery, After he scourged Jesus the Messiah, Beating him, Placing upon him a crown of thorn, Yet for the people of God, For those who trusted in Yeshua the Messiah, Who believed God's word, And God's promises, We behold, The Lamb of God, That took upon himself, The sin of this world, We behold, The Lord Jesus the Messiah, Who is the author, And the finisher

of our faith, Who for the joy, That was set before him, You and I, And our salvation, Was the joy that was set before him, He endured the cross, And he despising the shame, And he sat down at the right hand, Of the majesty on high, We don't see him yet, In this chapter, Sitting down at the majesty on high, But we see him just before his crucifixion, Within a few hours, He will be placed on a shameful Roman cross, And so we read now in verses 7, 8, 9, 10, And 11, Pilate is conversing with Jesus the Messiah, Listen to this, In John 19 and verse 7, The Jews answered him, We have a

law, And by our law he ought to die, Because he made himself the son of God, To remind you, Beloved brothers and sisters, That in John 10 and verse 30, Yeshua did claim to be divine, He claimed to be equal with God, He said in John 10, 30, I and my father are one, And you remember in John 10 earlier, When the Jewish leaders took stones to stone him, And Yeshua answered, He said to them, For many good works, Which I have showed you from my father, For which of these works do you stone me?

The Jews answered and said, These are the Jewish leaders, To remind you that over 70 times, The word Jews, Yehudim, Mentioned in the gospel of Yohanan, In the gospel of John, And almost all of these expressions, Yehudim, Jews, Applied to the Jewish leaders, Not every Jewish person, And so the Jewish leaders answered him, Saying, For good work we do not stone you, But for blasphemy, And because thou being a man, Makest thyself God, So you notice here, We can see in John 19 and verse 7, The Jewish leaders answered him, We have a law, And by our law he ought to die, Why?

Because he made himself the son of God, He claimed to be the son of God, And that will be for them a blasphemy, And you see, Beloved friend, If Yeshua was not divine, If he was not the son of God, Indeed, This would have been a blasphemy, Many throughout the history, Whether it is the history of Israel, Or the history of the church, Many claim to be the messiahs, Many claim to be divine, In fact, The counterfeit messiah, In the future day of the tribulation day, He will claim to be God, He is the anti-Christ, The false Mashiach, Who will stand in the temple of God, Making himself God, Seeking worship from all, In the

future day, Antiochus Epiphanes, He claimed to be God, In the days of all, That's how, The feast of dedication, Chanukah, The temple had to be rededicated, Because, This wicked man claimed to be God, And he defiled the temple in Jerusalem, And the Jewish people had to cleanse the temple again, And yet, Beloved brothers and sisters, They did not recognize, That he was indeed, The son of God, Ben Elohim, Chayim, To remind you, That when we turn the page, To John chapter 20, At the end of this 20th chapter, We read in verse 30 and 31, Many other signs, Truly did Jesus, In the presence of his disciples, Which are not written in this book, But

these are written, That ye might believe that Yeshua, Is the Messiah, Is the Christ, The son of God, Ben Elohim, And that believing he might have lives through his name, And so indeed, He is the son of God, Paul, In Galatians 2.20, Said, The son of God, Who loved me, And gave himself for me, In John 3.16, We read, For God so loved the world, That he gave his only begotten son, That whosoever believeth on him, Shall not perish, But have everlasting life, The psalmist of Israel, David, The sweetest psalmist of Israel, Said in the second psalm, He said, Concerning the son, I will declare a decree, The Lord has said unto me, Thou art

my son, This day have I begotten thee, In the same psalm, Psalm, The second psalm, Verse 12, We read, Kiss the son, Nashku, Nashku bar, Kiss the son, Lest he be angry, And ye perish, From the way, He is, The eternal son of God, Who became a man, In fact, We read in the book of Mishle, The book of Proverbs, Chapter 30, And this is one of the most important questions, That ever have been asked, This is the one, That was asked, By Agur, The son of Yakeh, Who asked these two men, By the name of Etiel, And Ukal, He said to them, In Proverbs 30, And verse 4, Who has ascended, Up into heaven,

And descended, Well, This is God, Who has gathered the winds, In his feasts, This is God, Who has bound the waters, In a garment, The answer, It is God, Who has established, All the ends of the earth, Well, The answer, Clearly, Is God, And then at the end, Of this verse 4, He asked, This is Agur, The son of Yakeh, He asked, Etiel, And Ukal, He asked them, What is his name?

The name is Yehovah, Jehovah, And what is his son's name? If you can tell, Remember what we read in scripture, And you shall call his name Yeshua, For he shall save his people from their sins, Matthew chapter 1 and verse 21, He is the son of God, Who became the son of man, This is very precious, Beloved brothers and sisters, And dear friends, And so, As we continue here, The Jewish leader said, We have a law, And by our law, He ought to die, Why? Because he made himself, The son of God, And so we read, In verse 8, That a fear came upon Pilate, God's Holy Spirit convicted him, We read in verse 8, And Pilate therefore heard that, Saying he was the more afraid, You see, The Spirit of God was speaking to Pilate, He was afraid, Because he was now exposed to the fact that, The Jewish leaders have taught Pilate, That Yeshua claimed to be the son of God, More than just another ordinary man, And fear came upon Pilate, In fact, According to Matthew chapter 27, In verse 19, In verse 19, When he, This is Pilate, Was set down, On the judgment seat, His wife sent unto him, And she said to him, Have thou nothing to do, With these just men?

For I have suffered many things, This day, In a dream, Because of him, In other words, Even his wife told him, And the Spirit of God was working, And yet this wicked man, By the name of Pilate, Even though fear came upon him, Even though his wife counseled him, To do nothing with these just men, Yet as we have already read, In the first three verses, Of John chapter 19, That Pilate scourged him, That his soldiers placed upon Yeshua, A crown of thorns, And yet, They placed upon him, A purple robe, We continue to read, That they mocked him, And then they smote him, And Pilate knew that, Allowed it, Condoned it, Commended that, And yet, He was also afraid, When he heard, Who Yeshua is, From the leaders of Israel, Who said, He made himself, The son of God, And it seemed to be, Beloved brothers and sisters, That the Spirit of God, Was his working there, Convicting him, His wife's message came to him, And so we read in verse 9, About Pilate, Once again, Asking Yeshua a question, Notice that, And again, He went into the judgment hall, Verse 9, And he says unto Jesus, Whence art thou?

In other words, Where did you come from? But Yeshua gave him, No answer, Imagine, He asked him, Where did you come from? Well, You see, He realized more and more, That he is dealing with a person, Who he found no fault in him, Yeshua was accused, By the leaders, And here Pilate went ahead, He scourged him, Mocked him, Beat him, Through his soldiers, And now, He is asking him, Where did you come from? Well, Jesus the Messiah, Gave him no answer, Again, Beloved brothers and sisters, You can see the fulfillment, Of Isaiah chapter 53, There we read in verse 7, About the person of the Messiah of Israel, The Savior of the world, He was oppressed, He was afflicted, Yet he opened not his mouth, Here we can see, That Yeshua doesn't answer anything, He doesn't defend himself, In fact, We read in Isaiah 53, In verse 7, He is brought as a lamb, To the slaughter, As a sheep, Before a shearer is dumb, So he opened not his mouth, He opened not his mouth, When Pilate asked him, Where did you come from?

Yeshua gave him no answer, Pilate should have known, That he was not, To do what he had done, To this holy man, Behold the man, In mockery, Pilate said, And yet, He, Let the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, Be scourged, And bitten, And now soon, He will send him, To be crucified, And so we read in verse 10, Pilate's word to Yeshua, And notice these beloved brothers and sisters, Notice what he is saying, In verse 10, Pilate said to him, Speakest thou not unto me, Don't you say anything? Don't you know, Knowest thou not, That I have power to crucify thee, And I have power to release thee?

Surely he had power, He had power because of his position, To do so, But in reality, He was powerless, Because God is the one, That has authority over this world, And so by saying, I have power to crucify you, To put you to death, And I have power to release you, We find out the last words to Pilate, That was given by the Lord Yeshua, The Messiah himself, And notice what the words that Jesus said, In verse 11, Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, Except it were given thee from above, Therefore he that delivered me unto thee, Has the greater sin, And this he of course, Has a reference to,

The spiritual leaders of Israel, In other words, Israel was privileged nation, Israel should have known, And the spiritual leaders of Israel, Should have known, That he was the Messiah, And accept him, And therefore with greater privileges, There are greater responsibility, And that's why Yeshua said, He that delivered me, Unto you have a greater responsibility, To remind you in chapter 18, In verse 3, We read, Judas then, Having received a band of men, And officers from the chief priests, And the Pharisees, He comes thither with lanterns, And torches, And weapons, You see, We read how Judas, Came to there, To capture the person of Jesus, The Messiah, In verse 28, We do read of John chapter

18, Then led they, Jesus to, From Caiaphas, Unto the hall of judgment, And it was early, And they themselves, Went not into the judgment hall, In other words, Now they are leading Yeshua, To Pilate, Early in the morning, So, There is a greater responsibility, That the nation of Israel had, Because, They knew, According to scripture, The way whereby, The Messiah will come into this world, And yet, They led him to Pilate, But Pilate, He himself, Who had authority here on earth, That was given to him by God, Instead of using his authority, To release Yeshua, To release Yeshua, The Romans, Headed up by Pilate, They have ultimately, Led Jesus to be crucified, And so Yeshua's

response, That thou, Could have no power against me, Except it was given, Unto thee, From above, Beloved brothers and sisters, All power is given to man, Here by God, Man on his own, Have no power, In fact, Our pastor Paul said, In Romans 13, In verse 1, Let every soul be subject, Unto higher powers, For there is no power, But of God, The powers that be, Are ordained, By God, And so, Beloved brothers and sisters, Here we see, How Yeshua, The Messiah, Is responding, And these are the last words, Of Jesus the Messiah, To Pilate, Because here, You notice, As we are, Leading on to the next verses, We see what Pilate, Have done, You

see now, We read of him, In this verse 11, The last words, Of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, To Pilate, And here from verse 12, To verse 16, We have the fourth, Thing that we learned, About Pilate, He, Is now, Decided, To sentence, Jesus, To death, He could have allowed him to go, He had power, That was given unto him, From God, Because all power, Is given by God, To mankind, He, Was the governor, He could release him, Had he listened, To the counsel of his wife, Had he listened, To the prompting, Of the spirit of God, He would have let him go, But again, Beloved brothers and sisters, Yeshua had to die, And while

God, Has sent him to this world, To offer him as a sacrifice, And God had to judge sin, Upon his beloved son, As men, Yet we see, Yet we see, The wickedness, Of humanity, It is our sin, That had, To be judged, And who will be, The one that will be judged, If God will judge you and I, We have no hope, For all have sinned, God will judge, Us, We will be ushered, To eternal, Separation from God, But God, But God, Sent his beloved son, The Messiah, To die, To be penalized, For our sins, And on the other hand, We see the wickedness, Of men, Jew and Gentile, Male and female, All leaders, All

leaders, All of us are guilty, In the death, Of the Messiah, Because he came, To die for our sins, So notice the last point here, Pilate's decision, To sentence Jesus to death, In verses 12 to 16, We read Pilate, For fear, He wanted to release him, As it seems to be here, From verse 12, And from thence, Henceforth, Pilate sought to release Yeshua, To release him, But the Jews cried out, Saying, If thou, Let this man go, Thou art not Caesar's friend, Whosoever maketh himself, A king, Speaketh against Caesar, In other words, The Jewish leaders, Said to Pilate, That if you are going, To release him, You are not a friend, Of the Kaysar, The

Caesar, Because he made himself, Calling himself king, Verse 12, And you notice now, We read in verse 13, Pilate brought Yeshua, To the judgment, Whole, He condemned, Yeshua, To death, And so we read, In verse 13, When Pilate, Therefore heard, That saying, He brought, Jesus forth, And he sat down, At the judgment seat, In the place, That is called, The pavement, In Hebrew, The word, The word is, Ritzpah, But in the Hebrew, It's called, Gavata, It's a stone, Pavement, He is sitting there, Upon the judgment seat, In the place, That is called, The pavement, Gavata, The pavement, Ritzpah, In Hebrew, And there now, Pilate, Is going, To condemn, Yeshua, To be crucified, How sad it

is, Beloved brothers and sisters, Listen to these verses, Verses 14, And 15, And 16, Notice what we read, It says in verse 14, It was the preparation, Of the Passover, When you read, The word, The preparation, It simply means, The eve of the Passover, Erev hachag, Erev Pesach, In Hebrew, That expression, The preparation, In Hebrew, Erev Pesach, Is the eve, Just before, Passover, Is coming into, The beginning of the feast, And to remind you, That Passover, Was always kept, On the 14th day, Of the month, Of Nisan, We have already read, In John 13, That Jesus the Messiah, Was in the upper room, With his disciples, You remember, We read in John 13, In verse

1, Where we read, About the Lord Yeshua, Sitting with his disciples, Now before the feast, Of the Passover, When Jesus knew, That his hour was come, That he should depart, Out of this world, This world, Unto the Father, Having loved his own, Which were in the world, He loved them, Unto the end, That was the eve, Of the Passover, And to remind you, That the Passover, Eve, Erev, Passover, Is really entering, Into the Passover day, At the same time, The eve of the Passover, Is the same, Eve in which, The Passover, Is kept, And we learn, And we learn, And we learn from this, That when the Messiah, Was at that evening, Of the Passover,

There keeping the Passover, Then in the very same day, On the following morning, Which is part of the same day, He will be crucified, And in the evening, Just towards the end of that day, He will become, The Passover lamb, And so the preparation, Of the Passover, That sometime, Around 6 a.m.

In the morning, Here we find out, Notice that, We read, It was the preparation, The Passover, About the sixth hour, That is, That Roman time, That represents, Around 6 a.m.

Early in the morning, Right at the beginning, Of the day, Morning wise, For the Roman time, But when it comes, To the Jewish calendar, Where it represents, Really, Because in the Jewish calendar, It's always from, Evening to evening, And so we find out, That now, Yeshua, This morning here, We read, That about the sixth hour, And he says, Unto the Jews, Behold your king, In other words, Pilate is presenting, Before the Jewish leader, The king, Again, He is mocking Yeshua, And he is mocking, Mocking the Jewish people, When he said, Behold the man, In the earlier verses, Of this chapter, Verse 5, He was mocking, The man, Christ Jesus, The Messiah, By having him presented,

With the crown of thorn, After he was beaten, Now he is mocking, Not only, Jesus, The Messiah, The man, But he is mocking, The Jewish people, Look, Here is your king, Behold, Your king, As he says here, In verse 14, And beloved brothers and sisters, To remind us, Verse 14, That indeed, Yeshua, The Messiah, Is that promised king, The wise man, Who came from the east, Said, Where is he, That was born, Melech ha-Yehudim, The king, Of the Jews, Yeshua was born, To be the king, Of Israel, The king, Of kings, And lord, Of lords, Behold your king, Hineh malkech, So in verse 15, We read, They cried, And we read, That they cried again,

This is the Jewish leaders, They cried, Away with him, Away with him, Crucified him, Pilate, Says unto them, Shall I crucify your king?

He said, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answer, We have no king, But Caesar, You see, Beloved brothers and sisters, This was one of the most saddest statements, That the Jewish leaders uttered, Because, Indeed, They had, The king before them, But they rejected him, And did not accept him, As the true king of Israel, And so they said, Crucified him, Crucified him, And from a human standpoint, We know, That they wanted him, To be killed, But from divine point of view, God had a plan, That the Messiah will come, In order to provide redemption, For mankind, That's why Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 10, Said it, Please the Lord to bruise him, He has put him to grief, When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, He shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand, From a human perspective, Crucified him, Crucified him, From divine perspective, God, Graciously, It pleased him, He wanted him to die, Why?

A holy God wanted him to die, Because there was no other solution to save a sinner, In Hebrew, Chafetz Adonai Deka'o, Isaiah 53 and verse 10, It pleased the Lord to bruise him, He wanted him to be bruised, To die, Because without Yeshua's death, There was no hope for a sinful world, But from a human perspective, Crucified him, Crucified him, We have no king but Caesar, Israel chose the wrong king, To remind you in 1 Samuel chapter 8, Israel came to Shmuel, And they said, Make us a king, That we will be like the other nations, And God had to remind Shmuel, They have not rejected thee, But they have rejected me from being a

king over them, Jehovah wanted to be the king of Israel, And here when Jehovah the Son, As men came, Israel said, We have no king, But the Kesar Caesar, And so how said, And finally, beloved brothers and sisters, The choice that Israel made, Have cost the nation of Israel, Now in the last 2,000 years, Of church history, That our own people, The Jewish people, Were scattered abroad, Throughout the whole nations of the world, Waiting the day, When they will look upon, The true king, The Messiah himself, And will acknowledge him, That he is indeed, The promised one of Israel, And indeed he is, The king of kings, And lord of lords, In fact, You remember

what, Zechariah said, In Zechariah chapter 9, We read, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Behold, Thy king cometh, He cometh unto thee, He is just, He is having salvation, He is lowly, And riding upon an ass, And upon a cold, The fall of an ass, But at his first coming, Israel rejected, Yeshua the Messiah, The king of Israel, But at his second coming, We read in, Zechariah chapter 9, And verse 10, This time, And I will cut off, The chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem, And the battle bow, Shall be cut off, And he, This is the king, The Messiah, He shall speak, Shalom, Unto the heathen, And

his dominion, This is the king, The Messiah, Yeshua Jesus, His dominion, Shall be from sea to sea, And from the rivers, Even unto the ends, Of the earth, That will be, At his second coming, Of the Messiah, So beloved brothers, And sisters, We read here, Verse 16, How Pilate, Ultimately, Delivered, Yeshua to die, And so we read, In verse 16, Then deliver he, This is Pilate, Pilate deliver him, This is Yeshua, Therefore unto them, To be crucified, And they took, Jesus, And they led, Him, Away, And all beloved, Brothers and sisters, This is touching our heart, Because, Here was the man, That was not guilty, Here we can see the man, The man of God's

counsel, The holy man, The undefiled man, And yet, He came to be here, A man of sorrows, That have been acquainted, With grief, He is despised, And rejected of men, A man of sorrows, And acquainted with grief, We read in Isaiah 53, And verse 3, We read in verse 6, All we like sheep have gone astray, We have turned everyone to his own way, But the Lord laid upon him, The iniquities of us all, This is the reason, This is the reason, That Jesus, The Messiah, Came to this world, He came, To become, The lamb of God, That will take upon himself, The sin of this world, And so, Pilate, Delivered him, He delivered Jesus,

He delivered him, To be crucified, And they took Yeshua, And they led, Him, Away, In the will of the Lord, In the next ministry meeting, With the help of the Lord, We will be dealing with the actual death of the Messiah, The crucifixion, Where he became, The one, That took upon himself, The sin of this world, Well, beloved brothers and sisters, And dear friend, May the Lord bless you, And encourage you, And may the Lord help us, To see how precious, The Messiah, The Savior, Whose name is Jesus, Whose name is Yeshua, How precious, He is, To God, And how precious, He becomes, To you and I, As we trust in him, And follow after

him, God bless you, Until the next time, Shalom,