<TITLE>03. Par 26-33</TITLE>L-26   27th chapter, the 11th verse.
And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the Christ of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
And when he was (of the chief) accused of the chief priests and elders, and of the... and answered nothing.
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled...
Now at the feast the governor... wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
And they had then a noble prisoner, called Barabbas.
Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
When he was fast down on this, set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have... nothing to do with this just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas.
Pilate said unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
And the governor said,... what evil has he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
... Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather the tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

L-27   My subject today, if I should call it that, for the next thirty minutes, is: What Shall We Do With This Jesus Called Christ? And then I would like to say this, also, "Jesus on our hands."

L-28 Now, I believe that the hour where our scene starts, is along about daylight, in Pilate's judgment hall. And it's one of the saddest times, and one of the most crucial times, of all history. It was the saddest mistake the church ever made in its history. They had just made it, and now it's been throwed into the laps of the governor, the state. Both church and state, because they were a people chosen of God, called to be His servants, and the nation was supposed to be controlled by God's laws.

L-29   And the church had turned down their Messiah. Although He had been so well identified to them, they had chosen rather to stay with the tradition of the elders of that day, than to believe the anointed, vindicated Word that God had promised them for hundreds of years, to come.

L-30 Did you notice, it also prophesied that they would be blinded? They couldn't understand this, and how they would be blinded, but they were.

L-31 And they had made their great mistake, and this day they had made their final show of it. And now it's in the hands of the government, and now the government has to make its choice. The churches had already rejected Him, though God had thoroughly proved that He was their Messiah.

L-32   Now I want to take just a few moments before we get down into this, to the text and so forth, that I have notes I got written here about it. How could those people have failed to see that? One thing the Scripture clearly says, "They were blind." But it's hard to make them understand they're blind, just as hard as it is today.

L-33 When, the Bible tells us that this generation is "naked, miserable, poor, and blind, and don't know it." Now, that's the Scripture. Now you tell we American people that we are blind, we'll tell you right quick you don't know what you're talking about.


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