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1 | Crucified outside city gates | Heb 13:11 | JNash | 221953 | ||
Why was Jesus crucified 'outside the city gates'? | ||||||
2 | Crucified outside city gates | Heb 13:11 | azurelaw | 221954 | ||
Dear JNash, Here are some citations for your reference and I hope they are helpful. **** Lev. 4:8-12 The remainder of the offering, the disassembly or cutting up of the bull is the same as for the peace offering except for the outer portions, the skin and the carcass of the bull itself. The fat portions, the two kidneys, and the covering of the liver, are returned to the alter and burned thereon. The remainder of the bull is taken out of the tabernacle court area to a place outside and burned outside. This place is the same location where the ashes are dumped. Jesus was taken outside of the city. He had been betrayed by all of His followers, all of the priests, all of His friends and acquaintances. There was no one who would stand up and speak for Him during His several trials and even up to the point of the Cross. No one came forward. Man has no part in the work of God. When it came right down to His time of need, only God was there for Him, and no one else. Thus the carcass was taken outside of the tabernacle to be burned. The ashes speak of the completed sacrifice. When there are ashes only, then the work is done. The ashes speak of the finished work of Christ on the Cross. This description of the sin offering is explained in Heb. 13:11-13, with respect to the body being burned outside the camp, likewise Christ was crucified outside the city gate. He had been forsaken by all. Forsaken by the Levitical priesthood which had by this time thoroughly compromised and distorted the whole Levitical ritual process and ceremonial feasts, Forsaken by His apostles and disciples who had lived with him for two plus years, hearing Jesus speak, seeing Him perform miracles almost on a daily basis. Forsaken by God the Father and God the Spirit on the Cross during those three final hours. All of this while outside the city, out in the sticks, humiliated and dishonored by all. So Jesus Christ became a total and complete rejection by all. It was thus that He performed the greatest work in all of history, and for each one of us though none of deserved it. (source : dailybiblestudy.org) ***** The direction in which He is led is outside the city. He must not die in Jerusalem, though multitudes of Prophets had perished there. Though the Temple was the central place of sacrifice, yet the Son of God must not be offered there, for He was an offering of another kind and must not lie upon their altars. He must be led outside the city because, by the Jews, He was treated as a flagrant offender who must be executed at the Tyburn of the city, in the appointed place of doom known as Calvary or Golgotha. When Naboth was unjustly condemned for blasphemy, they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones that he died. And afterwards Stephen—when they cried out against him as a blasphemer, they cast him out of the city and there they stoned him. Our Savior, therefore, must die in the ordinary place of execution, that in all respects He might be numbered with the transgressors. The rulers of the city so loathed and detested their great Reprover that they rejected Him and would not suffer Him to die within their city walls! Alas, poor Jerusalem, in casting out the Son of David, you did cast out your last hope—now are you bound over to desolation! He was led outside of the city because, from that time on, no acceptable sacrifice could be offered there. They might go on with their offering of daily lambs and they might sacrifice their bullocks and burn the fat of fed beasts—but from that day the substance of the sacrifice had gone away from them and Israel’s offerings were vain oblations. --- C. H. Spurgeon (source: spurgeongems.org) ***** Shalom Azure |
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