Matthew 23-End

All of a sudden, Mathew brings us into dark setting where you really begin to realize how deep the hole is where Jesus has fallen. In the famous last super, Christ tells everyone how Judas will betray him and that even his right hand man Peter will show disloyalty. Again, it’s the passion which actually makes Jesus face a problem like this, even though he knew there was no way out. Then Pontius Pilate comes into the scene. I’ve always viewed this man as the bad guy in the story for sentencing Christ to death, but he was probably the nicest guy Jesus faced all night. It was the people who chose to kill him. On that same evening, Jesus shows a sign of weakness for the first time in the entire gospel when he says “My God, why have you forsaken me?” It was the only time I recall this man blaming someone else for what was happening. The events which followed were the ones which set history. I think that you can only feel admiration towards a man who chose to go through such unimaginable pain for the good of all humanity. I personally show a great deal of respect to Jesus Christ because I’m sure I won’t hear of another like him again.