Holy Week Palm Sunday. Critics at the Cross
Holy Week. Palm Sunday . Matthew 27:42 Three groups of people abuse Jesus on the Cross , the ignorant sinners, the religious sinners and condemned sinners. 1. The ignorant sinners in vs. 39 " reviled Him, wagging their heads, and saying, ' Thou that destroyeth the temple, and build it in three days , save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross." " The place of the Crucifixion was close to the great road which led from the North to Jerusalem. On that Feast-Day , when there was no law to limit locomotion to a Sabbath day's journey, many would naturally be arrested by the spectacle of the three Crosses. ..." Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah. "Many of them knew nothing of Christ's case, but seeing him punished in company with the two malefactors, thought that he was doubtless guilty of the same crimes as they; others, perhaps, who had seen his miracles and heard something of his teaching, conceived the notion that one whom the pr...