Prophecies Of Messiahs Death And Burial
Messiah Gives Up His Life
Into Your hand commit my spirit. (Psalm 31:5)
Messiah Gives Up His Life Fulfilment
Despite His physical weakness and thirst, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. (Luke 23:46)
Having accomplished His Father’s will and finished His mission, Jesus yielded up His spirit to His Father.
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At that moment the veil of the temple, separating the holy place from the Most Holy Place, was torn in two from top to bottom; God had made a direct and personal way of access to Himself through His Son’s atoning death.
Witnesses The Centurion and His Soldiers
There was an earthquake, rocks were split and many dead saints came back to life.
When the centurion and the soldiers who were guarding Jesus saw these frightening supernatural signs, they were convinced that He truly was the Son of God.
Witnesses Many Women
Many women had followed Jesus from Galilee, and they were watching at a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
Not One of His Bones Broken
“In one house it (the Passover lamb) shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones. ’’(Exodus 12:46, note). It was Preparation Day and the bodies could not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath.
So the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken to hasten death and their bodies taken away. So the soldiers broke the legs ofthe two crucified on either side of Jesus; but seeing that Jesus was already dead, they did not break His legs.
Messiahs Side Is Pierced
“And I will pour on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced.” (Zechariah 12:10)
Buried with the Rich
And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth. (Isaiah 53:9)
Buried with the Rich Fulfillment
It was the Roman custom to throw crucified bodies to the dogs. But Joseph of Arimathea, a rich man and a secret disciple of Jesus, asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Pilate permitted him and Joseph took the body away.
Witnesses Joseph Of Arimathea And Nicodemus
Then Nicodemus, who was also a secret believer, came openly with myrrh and aloes. They covered Jesus’ body with spices and bound it with clean linen cloths.
Then they placed His body into Joseph’s tomb, which he had recently cut into the rock. Afterward, they rolled a large stone across the entrance of the tomb.
The day after Preparation Day, the Jewish leaders went to Pilate and said that Jesus had claimed He would arise from the dead after three days.
Therefore they asked for the tomb to be guarded until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples might steal the body and deceive the people, claiming that Jesus had risen from the dead.
Pilate agreed to their request and told them to go and secure the tomb. So they sealed the stone across the entrance and put soldiers there to guard it.