John 19:1-16a
Big Idea: King Jesus Got What He Didn’t Deserve So We Don’t Get What We Do Deserve
Behold Your King!:
1) Willing to suffer for you (v. 1-6)
“But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed.”
- Isaiah 53:5
2) Willing to humble Himself for you (v. 5-11)
“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy … Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
– Philippians 2:1, 3-11
“He (Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease.”
- John 3:30
3) Willing to be crucified for you (v. 12-16a)
“So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood; see it yourselves.’”
– Matthew 27:25
Bookends of beholding in John:
1) “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” - John 1:29b
2) “Behold your King!” - John 19:14b