Text Matthew 27:15-26 
Jesus Before Pilate
Wednesday April 17, 2024 Text: John 18:; Luke 23:1-25; Mark 15:1-20; Matthew 27:15-31 Passages: John 18:; Luke 23:1-25; Mark 15:1-20; Matthew 27:15-31
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Passion of Christ
Tuesday April 25, 2023 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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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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Who Gains from the Cross? Barabas
Wednesday March 8, 2017 Text: Matthew 27:15-23 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent
What can we say? The murder, the rebellious, the sinner gets to go free. The righteous Son of God is condemned. Here we have the perfect parable, an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Does Barabbas really get off scot free just because Christ is condemned in his place? Yes absolutely. He is released without
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