Precious Blood of Jesus, Part XX
Jesus poured out the Blood and Water from his heart, his love, mercy and grace
John 19:34–37 (NJB): one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water. 35 This is the evidence of one who saw it—true evidence, and he knows that what he says is true—and he gives it so that you may believe as well. 36 Because all this happened to fulfil the words of scripture: Not one bone of his will be broken; 37 and again, in another place scripture says: They will look to the one whom they have pierced.
Following the crucifixion, the Jews requested that Pilate break Jesus' legs and remove his body off the cross. It was their custom not to hang bodies on crosses on the Sabbath. When they arrived at Jesus, he was already dead. They discovered him dead, so they did not break his leg. One of the soldiers wounded his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. Jesus' love and grace have poured out of his heart to cleanse and purify all of us and all of humanity in the past, present, and future until eternity. Even though Jesus is dead, he may preserve his life in his body because he is our Lord and God. I remembered a Word of God that Br Victor mentioned in the sermon, which is 1 John 1:7 (NJB): we have a share in another’s life, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. Br says: “the life is always existing in the blood, so in the Blood of Jesus has life.” St John here says he is the witness of this event and the prophecy of Zachariah has fulfilled here, “They will mourn for the one whom they pierced as though for an only child and weep for him as people weep for a first born child”Zechariah 12:10
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