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Day 43 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: What does it mean to you that Jesus submitted to this, despite being a king?

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So they took Jesus and led him away. He went out, bearing his own cross, to what is called \u201cThe place of the skull\u201d, or in Hebrew, \u201cGolgotha\u201d, where they crucified him, with two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. Pilate also wrote a sign and put it on the cross. It was inscribed, \u201cJESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.\u201d

Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and the sign was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, \u201cDon\u2019t write, \u2018The King of the Jews,\u2019 but, \u2018he said, \u201cI am the King of the Jews.\u201d\u2019\u201d

Pilate answered, \u201cWhat I have written, I have written.\u201d

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven through completely from the top. Then they said to one another, \u201cLet\u2019s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be.\u201d This fulfilled the Scripture which says,

\u201cThey divided my clothes among them.

They cast lots for my clothing.\u201d

So this is what the soldiers did.

But standing by Jesus\u2019 cross were his mother, his mother\u2019s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple he loved standing there, he said to his mother, \u201cWoman, this is your son!\u201d Then he said to the disciple, \u201cHere is your mother!\u201d And from that time, the disciple took her into his own home.