1 Chronicles 3:1-4:23; Ezekiel 5:1-6:14; John 1:1-18
If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree…he who is hanged is accursed of God. Deuteronomy 21:22-23, NKJV
The Jews preferred stoning, but sometimes they hung criminals because the sight deterred crime. The guilty were accursed of God for their crimes; their corpse on the tree merely affirmed that fact. This is why the Jews demanded of Pilate, “crucify him, crucify him” (John 19:6). They not only wanted an innocent man dead, but wanted to show that He was accursed of God too. Unknown to them, that was God’s plan. God used man’s injustice to work His righteous judgment of sin that we might be saved! —W. A. H.
Nailed upon Golgotha’s tree—as a victim.
Who is He? Lamb of God, ‘tis He, ‘tis He, on the cross of Calvary. —A. P. Gibbs