Jesus’s Passion in Holy Week

Holy Week

Passion of Christ Part VIII

Jesus was never turned away from the insults and spitting

On 16th April 2025

 

  Jesus was rejected by everyone, and he thought he had been removed from the Father's presence. Jesus' passion began at birth, and he thought he was finished, with no more power to bear all of his afflictions alone. The adversary floods around him all day and night, stabbing him with whips and lances to give him the maximum punishment on earth than anybody else in this world. Psalm 88:14–18 (NJB): 14 why, Yahweh, do you rebuff me, turn your face away from me? 15 Wretched and close to death since childhood, I have borne your terrors—I am finished! 16 Your anger has overwhelmed me, your terrors annihilated me. 17 They flood around me all day long, close in on me all at once. 18 You have deprived me of friends and companions, and all that I know is the dark. Even when Jesus was born, he was face death as per the decree of King Herod. The infants and new-born children were mascaraed.  Mt 2: 16-18 ‘Herod was furious on realizing that he had been fooled by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or less, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise men.’  Jesus was taken away from all his friends and companions. A great passion and death were very inevitable for him. He felt the darkness everywhere as the heavenly light has taken away from him as a fulfilment of the will of Heavenly Father.  Psalm 38:9–10 (NJB): Lord, all my longing is known to you, my sighing no secret from you, 10 my heart is throbbing, my strength has failed, the light has gone out of my eyes.

 

  Isaiah 50:4–10 (NJB): Lord Yahweh has given me a disciple’s tongue, for me to know how to give a word of comfort to the weary. Morning by morning he makes my ear alert to listen like a disciple. 5 Lord Yahweh has opened my ear and I have not resisted, I have not turned away. 6 I have offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; I have not turned my face away from insult and spitting. Jesus inherited the nature, image, and resemblance of the Heavenly Father, as well as all the apparent and invisible virtues. Blood ran down Jesus's face after the soldiers hit him and pulled his beard. Despite all the penalties and persecutions, he never turned aside. Jesus never avoided the Heavenly Father's presence.