Death of a King.

"What shall I do then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!".

......the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. "He saved others", they said, "but he can't save himself!"

.......They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head......and mocked him.......they spit on him......and struck him on the head again and again.

....Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows twice you will disown me three times."

And he broke down and wept bitterly.

When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away. But all those who knew him.....stood at a distance, watching these things.

The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was the Son of God."

.....darkness came over the whole land....for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." And he

breathed his last.