Day 69 Bible Reading

Leviticus 21 & 22, Mark 15: 1-32, Psalm 37: 1-9

Mark 15: 31-32 (ESV)

“So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.  Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.”

Verses 31 and 32 from Mark 15 remind me of that scene from the movie “The Last Temptation of Christ”, where Jesus steps down from the cross and leads a different life. It’s a fantasy of course, because at the end he gets back on cross and dies. If Jesus had saved himself as he could have, then we wouldn’t have the resurrection and we wouldn’t believe in him. If Christ had gotten down from the cross, there wouldn’t be a Christian religion. I wonder if those chief priests and scribes who saw Jesus die remembered their words when the Christian religion was being formed. They tried to snuff the early Christians out, but it didn’t work. The beliefs of Christ took over the world and we are better because of it.