• JESUS SUFFERED
• We seldom take the time to consider just how much Jesus suffered for us.
• LET US TAKE TIME TO CONSIDER HOW HE SUFFERED
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• HE WAS TROUBLED, DEEPLY DISTRESSED, & EXCEEDINGLY SORROWFUL
• Mark 14: 32-35
• HE FELL ON HIS FACE
• Matthew 26:39
• HE SWEAT AS BLOOD
• Luke 22:44
• HIS FRIENDS WERE OBLIVIOUS TO HIS PLIGHT
• Mark 14:40-41
• Matthew 26:48-50
• HE WAS BETRAYED BY HIS FRIEND JUDAS
• Matthew 26:20-25
• HE WAS ARRESTED BY AN ARMED MOB
• Matthew 26:47
• Matthew 26:55
• John 18:3
• ALL HIS FRIENDS ABANDONED HIM
• Mark 14:27
• Mark 14:50-52
• HE WAS TAKEN AWAY IN FETTERS
• John 18:12
• HE WAS MARCHED, FIRST, TO THE HOUSE OF THE HIGH PRIEST’S FATHER-IN-LAW
• John 18:13-14
• PETER DENIED HIM
• John 13:37-38
• John 18:15-17
• HE WAS INTERROGATED, FIRST, BY THE HIGH PRIEST
• John 18:19-21
• AN OFFICER OF THE PRIEST STRUCK HIM
• John 18:22-23
• HE WAS FETTERED A SECOND TIME
• John 18:24
• HE WAS MARCHED, SECOND, TO THE HOUSE OF THE HIGH PRIEST
• John 18:24
• HE WAS INTERROGATED, SECOND, BY THE ELDERS, CHIEF PRIESTS, & SCRIBES
• Luke 22:66-68
• PERJURY WAS INDUCED AGAINST HIM
• Matthew 26:59-61
• HE WAS COMPELLED TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIMSELF
• Matthew 26:62-63
• HE WAS CONVICTED OF A CHARGE FOR WHICH HE WAS NOT ORIGINALLY INDICTED
• Matthew 26:64-66
• HE WAS SPAT UPON
• Matthew 26:67
• HE WAS BLINDFOLDED & BEATEN
• Mark 14:65
• OFFICERS STRUCK HIM
• Mark 14:65
• HE WAS MOCKED & BLASPHEMED
• Luke 22:63-65
• HIS BEARD WAS PLUCKED
• Isaiah 50:6
• PETER DENIED HIM, AGAIN, WHILE SWEARING
• Matthew 26:71-72
• PETER DENIED HIM, A THIRD TIME, WHILE CURSING
• Matthew 26:73-74
• HE WAS FETTERED A THIRD TIME
• Matthew 27:2
• HE WAS MARCHED, THIRD, TO THE PRAETORIUM
• John 18:28
• HE WAS ACCUSED IN PILATE’S COURT OF DIFFERENT CHARGES THAN HE WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF IN THE JEWISH COUNCIL
• Luke 23:1-2
• HE WAS INTERROGATED, THIRD, BY PONTIUS PILATE
• Matthew 27:11-14
• HE WAS MARCHED, FOURTH, TO THE COURT OF KING HEROD
• Luke 23:6-7
• HE WAS INTERROGATED, FOURTH, BY HEROD
• Luke 23:9-10
• HE WAS MOCKED BY HEROD’S TROOPS
• Luke 23:11
• HE WAS MARCHED, FIFTH, BACK TO THE PRAETORIUM
• Luke 23:11
• HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH AS A MURDERER WENT FREE
• Luke 23:13-25
• HE WAS SCOURGED
• John 19:1
• HE WAS STRIPPED & MADE TO WEAR A SCARLET ROBE
• Matthew 27:28
• HE WORE A CROWN OF THORNS
• John 19:2
• HE WAS STRUCK BY THE SOLDIERS
• John 19:3
• HE WAS SPAT UPON, AGAIN
• Matthew 27:30
• HE WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD WITH A REED, WHILE WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS
• Mark 15:19
• HE WAS MOCKED BY THE SOLDIERS
• Matthew 27:31
• THE PURPLE ROBE, THAT WOULD HAVE CLOTTED TO HIS OPEN WOUNDS, WAS TORN FROM HIS BACK & REPLACED WITH HIS OWN CLOTHES
• Mark 15:20
• HE BORE HIS OWN CROSS
• John 19:17
• SIMON OF CYRENE WAS MADE TO CARRY THE CROSS, IMPLYING JESUS WAS UNABLE TO BEAR IT HIMSELF
• Matthew 27:32
• HE WAS MARCHED, SIXTH, TO GOLGOTHA
• Mark 15:22
• HE DECLINED A MILD SEDATIVE
• Mark 15:23
• HIS GARMENTS, TO WHICH HIS OPEN WOUNDS WERE ONCE AGAIN CLOTTING, WERE REMOVED TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE SOLDIERS
• Mark 15:24
• HE WAS CRUCIFIED
• Mark 15:25
• HIS HANDS AND FEET NAILED TO THE CROSS
• Psalm 22:16
• HE WAS BLASPHEMED BY PASSERSBY, CHIEF PRIESTS, SCRIBES, ELDERS, THE ROBBERS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM
• Matthew 27:39-44
• HE WAS BLASPHEMED BY THE SOLDIERS
• Luke 23:36-37
• HE HUNG ON THE CROSS SIX HOURS
• Mark 15:25, 33, 37
• WITH TORTURED BREATH, HE UTTERED WORDS OF GRACE
• Luke 23:34, 43
• JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE
• 1 Peter 2:21-24
• 1 Peter 4:12-19
• Christ suffered for us, and we should suffer for Him.
• The worst part about all this suffering:
• HE IS CRUCIFIED, AGAIN, WHENEVER A CHRISTIAN GOES INTO APOSTASY
• Hebrews 6:4-6
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• CONCLUSION
• Do we ever consider that Jesus suffered and died because of me?
• It was my sin that sent Jesus to the Cross to die.
• For all those who fail to reach heaven, Jesus died in vain for them.
• Consider just how much He suffered for you, and thank Him.

By Carey Scott from a series of Lord Supper readings by Valley church of Christ in Las Vegas submitted by Bryan Dockens