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Then Pilate took Jesus and\xa0flogged him.\xa02\xa0And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.\xa03\xa0They came up to him, saying, \u201cHail, King of the Jews!\u201d and struck him with their hands.\xa04\xa0Pilate went out again and said to them, \u201cSee, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that\xa0I find no guilt in him.\u201d\xa05\xa0So Jesus came out, wearing\xa0the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them,\xa0\u201cBehold the man!\u201d\xa06\xa0When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, \u201cCrucify him, crucify him!\u201d Pilate said to them,\xa0\u201cTake him yourselves and crucify him, for\xa0I find no guilt in him.\u201d\xa07\xa0The Jews\xa0answered him, \u201cWe have a law, and\xa0according to that law he ought to die because\xa0he has made himself the Son of God.\u201d\xa08\xa0When Pilate heard this statement,\xa0he was even more afraid.\xa09\xa0He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus,\xa0\u201cWhere are you from?\u201d But\xa0Jesus gave him no answer.\xa010\xa0So Pilate said to him, \u201cYou will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?\u201d\xa011\xa0Jesus answered him,\xa0\u201cYou would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore\xa0he who delivered me over to you\xa0has the greater sin.\u201d 12\xa0From then on\xa0Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, \u201cIf you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend.\xa0Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.\u201d\xa013\xa0So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on\xa0the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic\xa0Gabbatha.\xa014\xa0Now it was\xa0the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.\xa0He said to the Jews,\xa0\u201cBehold your King!\u201d\xa015\xa0They cried out,\xa0\u201cAway with him, away with him, crucify him!\u201d Pilate said to them, \u201cShall I crucify your King?\u201d The chief priests answered, \u201cWe have no king but Caesar.\u201d\xa016\xa0So he\xa0delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,\xa017\xa0and\xa0he went out,\xa0bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.\xa018\xa0There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.John 19:1-18\xa0(ESV)

3\xa0He was despised and rejected\xa0by men, a man of sorrows\xa0and acquainted with\xa0grief;\xa0and as one from whom men hide their faces\xa0he was despised, and\xa0we esteemed him not. 4\xa0Surely he has borne our griefsand carried our sorrows;yet we esteemed him stricken,smitten by God, and afflicted.5\xa0But he was pierced for our transgressions;he was crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,and with his wounds we are healed. 6\xa0All we like sheep have gone astray;we have turned\u2014every one\u2014to his own way;and the\xa0Lord\xa0has laid on himthe iniquity of us all.Isaiah 53:3-12\xa0(ESV)\xa0

The Apostle\u2019s Creed

\u201cHe suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.\u201d

And I, when I came to you, brothers,\xa0did not come proclaiming to you\xa0the testimony\xa0of God with lofty speech or wisdom.\xa02\xa0For I decided to know nothing among you except\xa0Jesus Christ and him crucified.\xa01 Corinthians 2:1-2(ESV)

1. An undeniable point in History
2. The unconditional Love of a Father

For our sake he made him to be sin\xa0who knew no sin, so that in him we might become\xa0the righteousness of God.2 Corinthians 5:21(ESV)

1. An irreversible victory

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God\xa0made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,\xa014\xa0by\xa0canceling\xa0the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.\xa015\xa0He disarmed the rulers and authorities\xa0and\xa0put them to open shame, by\xa0triumphing over them in him.Colossians 2:13-15(ESV)