Jesus Mocked (by Gentiles, Jews and Thieves)
If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew 27. We’re going to look at verses 33 through 44. We’ve come today to the very brink of the abyss. In the last couple of weeks we have seen Matthew describe the sufferings of the trial and of the treatment from the Roman soldiers on His way to the cross. And today we come to the crucifixion itself. Matthew has been telling us this for a variety of reasons. For one thing, he’s been telling us this because it happened. I want to pause and just say right there, somehow, somewhere, young people are going to go off to college and you are going to find some professor in a religion class that says this doesn’t happen. Let me say two things to that. Somebody says that this didn’t happen. The first thing I want to say is…