Mark wrote how, “Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band. And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshiped him. And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not”, and in chapter fifteen and verse twenty-four of his book, Mark shared how, “they parted his garments, casting lots upon them” where we read:
And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments,
casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
The verse reads, “And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, ...”. Mark began with the words, “and when” which means “and at the time and moment” “they had crucified him” or “the Roman soldiers drove down with stakes, palisade, destroyed in the flesh and power and extinguished completely Jesus”, “they parted” which means “the Roman soldiers cut in pieces, clave asunder and divided into opposing parts” “his garments” which refers to “Jesus' outer cloaks, mantles or tunics”. Mark shared how the Roman soldiers “divided” Jesus' clothing after they nailed Him to the cross.
The verse continues, “... casting lots upon them, what every man should take.” Mark added with the words, “casting lots upon them” which means “throwing objects which was either a pebble, potsherd or bit of wood”, “what every man should take” or “which determined the allotted portion that each Roman soldier would carry off”. Mark shared how the Roman soldiers began to “gamble” to determine what part of Jesus' clothing each of them would bear away.
When we consider Mark's words in this verse, we see how Jesus was placed upon a cross and stripped of His clothing for which the Roman soldiers gambled to decide which part of them each would take away. Jesus observed these Roman soldiers as they did these things. Because He knows all things, He knew they would one day stand before Him as their judge, and still He allowed them to do this. God so loves people that He purposed Jesus to be crucified for their sins so they may live forever with Him. Those who are wise will consider carefully what Jesus endured that they might be saved and yield their lives to Him as their personal “Savior and Lord”.
Next time Mark shares how, “it was the third hour, and they crucified him”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until
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All references are from "Strongs Concordance".
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