HOW HE SUFFERED

I. HE WAS TROUBLED, DEEPLY DISTRESSED, & EXCEEDINGLY SORROWFUL (Mark 14:32-35).
II. HE FELL ON HIS FACE (Matthew 26:39).
III. HE SWEAT AS BLOOD (Luke 22:44).
IV. HIS FRIENDS WERE OBLIVIOUS TO HIS PLIGHT (Mark 14:40-41).
V. HE WAS BETRAYED BY HIS FRIEND JUDAS (Matthew 26:20-25, 48-50).
VI. HE WAS ARRESTED BY AN ARMED MOB (Matthew 26:47, 55; John 18:3).
VII. ALL HIS FRIENDS ABANDONED HIM (Mark 14:27, 50-52).
VIII. HE WAS TAKEN AWAY IN FETTERS (John 18:12).
IX. HE WAS MARCHED, FIRST, TO THE HOUSE OF THE HIGH PRIEST’S FATHER-IN-LAW (John 18:13-14).
X. PETER DENIED HIM (John 13:36-38; 18:15-18).
XI. HE WAS INTERROGATED, FIRST, BY THE HIGH PRIEST (John 18:19-21).
XII. AN OFFICER OF THE PRIEST STRUCK HIM (John 18:22-23).
XIII. HE WAS FETTERED A SECOND TIME (John 18:24).
XIV. HE WAS MARCHED, SECOND, TO THE HOUSE OF THE HIGH PRIEST (John 18:24).
XV. HE WAS INTERROGATED, SECOND, BY THE ELDERS, CHIEF PRIESTS, & SCRIBES (Luke 22:66-68).
XVI. PERJURY WAS INDUCED AGAINST HIM (Matthew 26:59-61).
XVII. HE WAS COMPELLED TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIMSELF (Matthew 26:62-63).
XVIII. HE WAS CONVICTED OF A CHARGE FOR WHICH HE WAS NOT ORIGINALLY INDICTED (Matthew 26:64-66).
XIX. HE WAS SPAT UPON (Matthew 26:67).
XX. HE WAS BLINDFOLDED & BEATEN (Mark 14:65a).
XXI. OFFICERS STRUCK HIM (Mark 14:65b).
XXII. HE WAS MOCKED & BLASPHEMED (Luke 22:63-65).
XXIII. HIS BEARD WAS PLUCKED (Isaiah 50:6).
XXIV. PETER DENIED HIM, AGAIN, WHILE SWEARING (Matthew 26:71-72).
XXV. PETER DENIED HIM, A THIRD TIME, WHILE CURSING (Matthew 26:73-74).
XXVI. HE WAS FETTERED A THIRD TIME (Matthew 27:2).
XXVII. HE WAS MARCHED, THIRD, TO THE PRAETORIUM (John 18:28).
XXVIII. HE WAS ACCUSED IN PILATE’S COURT OF DIFFERENT CHARGES THAN HE WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF IN THE JEWISH COUNCIL (Luke 23:1-2).
XXIX. HE WAS INTERROGATED, THIRD, BY PONTIUS PILATE (Matthew 27:11-14).
XXX. HE WAS MARCHED, FOURTH, TO THE COURT OF KING HEROD (Luke 23:6-7).
XXXI. HE WAS INTERROGATED, FOURTH, BY HEROD (Luke 23:9-10).
XXXII. HE WAS MOCKED BY HEROD’S TROOPS (Luke 23:11).
XXXIII. HE WAS MARCHED, FIFTH, BACK TO THE PRAETORIUM (Luke 23:11).
XXXIV. HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH AS A MURDERER WENT FREE (Luke 23:13-25).
XXXV. HE WAS SCOURGED (John 19:1).
XXXVI. HE WAS STRIPPED & MADE TO WEAR A SCARLET ROBE (Matthew 27:28).
XXXVII. HE WORE A CROWN OF THORNS (John 19:2).
XXXVIII. HE WAS STRUCK BY THE SOLDIERS (John 19:3).
XXXIX. HE WAS SPAT UPON, AGAIN (Matthew 27:30).
XL. HE WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD WITH A REED, WHILE WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS (Mark 15:19).
XLI. HE WAS MOCKED BY THE SOLDIERS (Matthew 27:31).
XLII. THE PURPLE ROBE, THAT WOULD HAVE CLOTTED TO HIS OPEN WOUNDS, WAS TORN FROM HIS BACK & REPLACED WITH HIS OWN CLOTHES (Mark 15:20).
XLIII. HE BORE HIS OWN CROSS (John 19:17).
XLIV. SIMON OF CYRENE WAS MADE TO CARRY THE CROSS, IMPLYING JESUS WAS UNABLE TO BEAR IT HIMSELF (Matthew 27:32).
XLV. HE WAS MARCHED, SIXTH, TO GOLGOTHA (Mark 15:22).
XLVI. HE DECLINED A MILD SEDATIVE (Mark 15:23).
XLVII. HIS GARMENTS, TO WHICH HIS OPEN WOUNDS WERE ONCE AGAIN CLOTTING, WERE REMOVED TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE SOLDIERS (Mark 15:24).
XLVIII. HE WAS CRUCIFIED (Mark 15:25), HIS HANDS AND FEET NAILED TO THE CROSS (Psalm 22:16).
XLIX. HE WAS BLASPHEMED BY PASSERSBY, CHIEF PRIESTS, SCRIBES, ELDERS, THE ROBBERS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM (Matthew 27:39-44), & THE SOLDIERS (Luke 23:36-37).
L. HE HUNG ON THE CROSS SIX HOURS (Mark 15:25, 33, 37).
LI. WITH TORTURED BREATH, HE UTTERED WORDS OF GRACE (Luke 23:34, 43).
LII. HE IS CRUCIFIED, AGAIN, WHENEVER A CHRISTIAN GOES INTO APOSTASY (Hebrews 6:4-6).

By Bryan Matthew Dockens

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