Passage : 
What Then Shall I Do With Jesus?
Wednesday April 6, 2022 Text: Matthew 27:21-23 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 27:21-23
Pilate tries so hard to put Jesus aside, to make no decision about him. He tires to let him go. He sends him to Herod. He gives them the choice of Barabbas or Jesus thinking they will surely pick Barabbas. He scourges him. He washes his hands pretending it is not his guilt. Yet no
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Hands of Vindication
Wednesday March 24, 2021 Text: Matthew 27:15-26 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 27:15-26
In an attempt to absolve himself of the guilt of what he knows full well to be the murder of an innocent man Pilate washes his hands before the crowd of people and claims, “I am innocent.” As far as grand symbolic gestures go this one is terrible. As if washing your hands with water
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NT4 06 – Passion of Christ
Friday March 5, 2021 Text: Matthew 27:11-66 Passages: Matthew 27:11-66
Jesus, the lamb of God that carries the sin of the world, dies for sinners like me.
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