Devotional : This Is the King
The people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying,
“He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his
Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him
sour wine and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”
In Roman-occupied Judea, it was customary for an executed individual to have a sign hanging around his neck declaring the crime he had committed. But with Jesus, there was a problem: Jesus was completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
Why, then, did Pilate put a sign on Jesus’ cross that read “This is the King of the Jews”?
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