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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON MARK - MARK 15:1-15
  by J.C. Ryle
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These verses begin the chapter in which Mark describes the slaying of
"the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." It is a part of
the Gospel history which should always be read with peculiar reverence.
We should call to mind, that Christ was cut off, not for Himself, but
for us. (Dan. 9:26.) We should remember that His death is the life of
our souls, and that unless His blood had been shed, we must have
perished miserably in our sins.

Let us mark in these verses, what a striking proof the Jewish rulers
gave to their own nation that the times of Messiah had come.

The chapter opens with the fact, that the chief priests bound Jesus and
"delivered Him to Pilate," the Roman Governor. Why did they do so?
Because they had no longer the power of putting any one to death, and
were under the dominion of the Romans. By this one act and deed they
declared that the prophecy of Jacob was fulfilled. "The scepter had
departed from Judah, and the lawgiver from between his feet," and Shiloh
the Messiah, whom God had promised to send, must have come. (Gen.
49:10.) Yet there is nothing whatever to show that they remembered this
prophecy. Their eyes were blinded. They either could not, or would not,
see what they were doing.

Let us never forget that wicked men are often fulfilling God\

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