The Crucifixion of the King of Kings

In our passage from Dr. Luke’s Gospel this morning we see revealed in the narrative the Via Dolorosa or the “way of suffering” that Messiah had to take to fulfill His Divine Messianic Mission (Luke 9:21-22; 51). This is the fourth movement of Jesus’ Passion; Jesus has been forsaken and denied by those closest to him in the world, now he will be utterly forsaken by God for the sins of His people. Jesus will not only be carrying his cross, but carrying the sins of His people, and the weight of God’s eternal wrath as the Sin-Bearing Lamb of God.

Jesus will lay down his body and blood for His own; Jesus will open a new and living way to the Father through His flesh.