He is the Man!

“Behold the Man!” 
John 19:5

Pilate brings Jesus out before the crowd and the religious rulers as an appeal to let Jesus go because Pilate found nothing to charge against Jesus. Different translations write it differently, such as “Behold the man” or “See the man” or “Here is the man”. These all aim at the meaning that this is the man they are putting on trial: one who has been flogged and beaten, one whom Pilate views as not being a threat. The Sanhedrin and crowd view Him differently. But Pilate’s statement of “Here is the man” actually becomes quite accurate in pointing to Jesus as King. 

Here are some things to Behold about Jesus:

• His immense suffering: Christ’s suffering was beyond our comprehension. From being flogged to suffocating on the cross, Christ’ suffering paid for our lives and covered our sin. 

 

• His care for His mom: Christ sees His mom standing by His cross and commissions John to take care of her like his own mother, which he begins immediately. Christ cares for us in the same by going to the cross, providing for us, and preparing a place for us in the Father’s House.

 

• His fulfillment of prophecy: John notes several prophecies that Jesus fulfilled in His suffering and death. Several of these were from Ps. 22, which David wrote about a 1,000 years before Christ came to the earth. 

 

• He submission to the Father: Jesus did everything the Father wanted Him to do. He regularly stated that His purpose for being born and being on the earth was to fulfill the Father’s plan. He was so obedient to this that He died, even on a cross, and gave up His spirit. 

 

• His completed work on the cross: When He knew He had accomplished all that He was supposed to do and had made payment for the sin of the world, Jesus said “It is finished”, meaning it’s all covered, it’s all paid for, it’s all done. And, now it was His time to die. 

No wonder God the Father wants us to behold and see His Son! He is the Lamb of God who suffered greatly as an innocent man on our behalf. 
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So, my brothers and sisters, let us come and behold Him. He is the man!

Please read the first half of John 20 for Sunday.

Pastor Andy 

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