content/03/31/data.json
{"content":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake; which that he might discharge, he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfill it; endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul, and most painful sufferings in his body; was crucified, and died, was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption. On the third day he arose from the dead, with the same body in which he suffered, with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father, making intercession, and shall return, to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.","chapter":"8","citation":"WCF 8.4","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 8.4","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"4","prooftexts":{},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 8: Of Christ the Mediator","type":"confession"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake;<sup id='fnref:wcf1'><a href='#fn:wcf1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> which that he might discharge, he was made under the law,<sup id='fnref:wcf2'><a href='#fn:wcf2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> and did perfectly fulfill it;<sup id='fnref:wcf3'><a href='#fn:wcf3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul,<sup id='fnref:wcf4'><a href='#fn:wcf4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> and most painful sufferings in his body;<sup id='fnref:wcf5'><a href='#fn:wcf5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup> was crucified, and died,<sup id='fnref:wcf6'><a href='#fn:wcf6' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>6</a></sup> was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption.<sup id='fnref:wcf7'><a href='#fn:wcf7' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>7</a></sup> On the third day he arose from the dead,<sup id='fnref:wcf8'><a href='#fn:wcf8' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>8</a></sup> with the same body in which he suffered,<sup id='fnref:wcf9'><a href='#fn:wcf9' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>9</a></sup> with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father,<sup id='fnref:wcf10'><a href='#fn:wcf10' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>10</a></sup> making intercession,<sup id='fnref:wcf11'><a href='#fn:wcf11' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>11</a></sup> and shall return, to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.<sup id='fnref:wcf12'><a href='#fn:wcf12' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>12</a></sup>","chapter":"8","citation":"WCF 8.4","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 8.4","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"4","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 40:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19040007.01-1\">Then I said, “Behold, I have come;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the scroll of the book it is written of me:<br />\n I delight to do your will, O my God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your law is within my heart.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:5-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010005.01-2\">Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010005.10-2\">“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a body have you prepared for me;<br />\n in burnt offerings and sin offerings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have taken no pleasure.<br />\n Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010008.01-2\">When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n</div><h5>John 10:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010018.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-4\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-1\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003015.01-1\">But Jesus answered him, <span class=\"woc\">“Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”</span> Then he consented.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:37-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026037.01-1\">And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022044.01-2\">And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 27:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027046.01-3\">And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”</span> that is, <span class=\"woc\">“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40026001-1\">26:1 </span>When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”</span></p>\n <p id=\"p40026003.01-1\">Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026006.05-1\">Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026014.05-1\">Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026017.06-1\">Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, <span class=\"woc\">“Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”</span> And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.</p>\n <p id=\"p40026020.01-1\">When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”</span> And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, <span class=\"woc\">“He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”</span> Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You have said so.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026026.06-1\">Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Take, eat; this is my body.”</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026030.05-1\">And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”</span> Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”</span> Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026036.05-1\">Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">“Sit here, while I go over there and pray.”</span> And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”</span> And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”</span> And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, <span class=\"woc\">“So, could you not watch with me one hour?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”</span> Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, <span class=\"woc\">“My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”</span> And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026047.06-1\">While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.” And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Friend, do what you came to do.”</span> Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?</span> <span class=\"woc\">But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”</span> At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”</span> Then all the disciples left him and fled.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026057.07-1\">Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”</span> Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026069.04-1\">Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, <span class=\"woc\">“Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”</span> And he went out and wept bitterly.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40027001-1\">27:1 </span>When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027003.04-1\">Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027011.04-1\">Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, <span class=\"woc\">“You have said so.”</span> But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?” But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027015.05-1\">Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027024.07-1\">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 to it yourselves.” And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027027.04-1\">Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027032.03-1\">As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027045.05-1\">Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”</span> that is, <span class=\"woc\">“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”</span> And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.</p>\n <p id=\"p40027051.01-1\">And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”</p>\n <p id=\"p40027055.01-1\">There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027057.04-1\">When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027062.06-1\">The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","6":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-1\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","7":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-1\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002027.01-2\">For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or let your Holy One see corruption.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013037.01-3\">but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006009.01-4\">We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","8":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015003.01-1\">For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","9":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 20:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020025.01-1\">So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 20:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020027.01-2\">Then he said to Thomas, <span class=\"woc\">“Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","10":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 16:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41016019.01-1\">So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","11":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008034.01-1\">Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009024.01-2\">For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007025.01-3\">Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","12":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 14:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014009.01-1\">For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.</p>\n <p id=\"p45014010.01-1\">Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001011.01-2\">and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010042.01-3\">And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 13:40-42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40013040.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001006.01-5\">And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002004.01-6\">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 8: Of Christ the Mediator","type":"confession"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"mb-0 header\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Confession of Faith</h5>\n<h5 class=\"text-muted mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Chapter 8: Of Christ the Mediator</h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">4.</span> This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf1\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> which that he might discharge, he was made under the law,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf2\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> and did perfectly fulfill it;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf3\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf4\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> and most painful sufferings in his body;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf5\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup> was crucified, and died,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf6\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf6\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">6</a></sup> was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf7\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf7\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">7</a></sup> On the third day he arose from the dead,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf8\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf8\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">8</a></sup> with the same body in which he suffered,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf9\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf9\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">9</a></sup> with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf10\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf10\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">10</a></sup> making intercession,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf11\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf11\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">11</a></sup> and shall return, to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf12\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf12\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">12</a></sup></p>\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 40:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19040007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then I said, \u201cBehold, I have come;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the scroll of the book it is written of me:\n I delight to do your will, O my God;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your law is within my heart.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 10:5-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58010005.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010005.10-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cSacrifices and offerings you have not desired,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a body have you prepared for me;\n in burnt offerings and sin offerings\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have taken no pleasure.\n Then I said, \u2018Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.\u2019\u201d</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When he said above, \u201cYou have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings\u201d (these are offered according to the law), then he added, \u201cBehold, I have come to do your will.\u201d He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 10:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43010018.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p50002008.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p48004004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40003015.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Jesus answered him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cLet it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.\u201d</span> Then he consented.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 26:37-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026037.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cMy soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 22:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42022044.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 27:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40027046.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cEli, Eli, lema sabachthani?\u201d</span> that is, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026001.06-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40026001-1\">26:1\u00a0</span>When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.\u201d</span></p>\n <p id=\"p40026003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, \u201cNot during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.\u201d</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026006.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, \u201cWhy this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.\u201d But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cWhy do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.\u201d</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026014.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, \u201cWhat will you give me if I deliver him over to you?\u201d And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026017.06-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, \u201cWhere will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?\u201d He said, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cGo into the city to a certain man and say to him, \u2018The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.\u2019\u201d</span> And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.</p>\n <p id=\"p40026020.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cTruly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.\u201d</span> And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, \u201cIs it I, Lord?\u201d He answered, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cHe who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.\u201d</span> Judas, who would betray him, answered, \u201cIs it I, Rabbi?\u201d He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have said so.\u201d</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026026.06-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cTake, eat; this is my body.\u201d</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cDrink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.\u201d</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026030.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, \u2018I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.\u201d</span> Peter answered him, \u201cThough they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.\u201d Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cTruly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.\u201d</span> Peter said to him, \u201cEven if I must die with you, I will not deny you!\u201d And all the disciples said the same.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026036.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cSit here, while I go over there and pray.\u201d</span> And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cMy soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.\u201d</span> And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cMy Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.\u201d</span> And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cSo, could you not watch with me one hour?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201d</span> Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cMy Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.\u201d</span> And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cSleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.\u201d</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026047.06-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, \u201cThe one I will kiss is the man; seize him.\u201d And he came up to Jesus at once and said, \u201cGreetings, Rabbi!\u201d And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cFriend, do what you came to do.\u201d</span> Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cPut your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?</span> <span class=\"woc\">But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?\u201d</span> At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cHave you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.\u201d</span> Then all the disciples left him and fled.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026057.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, \u201cThis man said, \u2018I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.\u2019\u201d And the high priest stood up and said, \u201cHave you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?\u201d But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, \u201cI adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.\u201d Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.\u201d</span> Then the high priest tore his robes and said, \u201cHe has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. What is your judgment?\u201d They answered, \u201cHe deserves death.\u201d Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, \u201cProphesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?\u201d</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026069.04-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, \u201cYou also were with Jesus the Galilean.\u201d But he denied it before them all, saying, \u201cI do not know what you mean.\u201d And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, \u201cThis man was with Jesus of Nazareth.\u201d And again he denied it with an oath: \u201cI do not know the man.\u201d After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, \u201cCertainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.\u201d Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, \u201cI do not know the man.\u201d And immediately the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cBefore the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.\u201d</span> And he went out and wept bitterly.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027001.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40027001-1\">27:1\u00a0</span>When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027003.04-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, \u201cI have sinned by betraying innocent blood.\u201d They said, \u201cWhat is that to us? See to it yourself.\u201d And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, \u201cIt is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.\u201d So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, \u201cAnd they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.\u201d</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027011.04-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, \u201cAre you the King of the Jews?\u201d Jesus said, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have said so.\u201d</span> But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilate said to him, \u201cDo you not hear how many things they testify against you?\u201d But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027015.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, \u201cWhom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?\u201d For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, \u201cHave nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.\u201d Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor again said to them, \u201cWhich of the two do you want me to release for you?\u201d And they said, \u201cBarabbas.\u201d Pilate said to them, \u201cThen what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?\u201d They all said, \u201cLet him be crucified!\u201d And he said, \u201cWhy, what evil has he done?\u201d But they shouted all the more, \u201cLet him be crucified!\u201d</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027024.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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, \u201cI am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.\u201d And all the people answered, \u201cHis blood be on us and on our children!\u201d Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027027.04-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, \u201cHail, King of the Jews!\u201d And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027032.03-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, \u201cThis is Jesus, the King of the Jews.\u201d Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, \u201cYou who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.\u201d So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, \u201cHe saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, \u2018I am the Son of God.\u2019\u201d And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027045.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cEli, Eli, lema sabachthani?\u201d</span> that is, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d</span> And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, \u201cThis man is calling Elijah.\u201d And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, \u201cWait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.\u201d And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.</p>\n <p id=\"p40027051.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, \u201cTruly this was the Son of God!\u201d</p>\n <p id=\"p40027055.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027057.04-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027062.06-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, \u201cSir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, \u2018After three days I will rise.\u2019 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, \u2018He has risen from the dead,\u2019 and the last fraud will be worse than the first.\u201d Pilate said to them, \u201cYou have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.\u201d So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:6\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p50002008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:7\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44002023.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 2:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002027.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or let your Holy One see corruption.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 13:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44013037.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45006009.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:8\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 15:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46015003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:9\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 20:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43020025.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So the other disciples told him, \u201cWe have seen the Lord.\u201d But he said to them, \u201cUnless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 20:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43020027.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then he said to Thomas, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cPut your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:10\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Mark 16:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p41016019.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:11\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45008034.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died\u2014more than that, who was raised\u2014who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58009024.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58007025.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:12\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 14:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45014009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.</p>\n <p id=\"p45014010.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44001011.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">and said, \u201cMen of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 10:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44010042.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 13:40-42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40013040.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jude 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p65001006.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day\u2014</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Peter 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p61002004.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"Of Christ the mediator, part 4"}