Day 19: “Crucify Him!”
Luke 23:20–25
He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.” But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be
done. He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
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Everyone views the Lord as a person, and anyone who views His humanity as on par with the humanity of any other person is incapable then of thinking of His Divinity, no matter how often this is called the Son of God, born from eternity, coequal with the Divinity
of the Father. When he is told this or hears it read, it penetrates his hearing, indeed, but not at the same time his belief, since he thinks of the Lord as being a material person like any other man, retaining the same properties of the flesh. And because he then sets the Lord’s Divinity aside and pays it no attention, he is therefore in the same state as he would be if he denied it; for he denies that the Lord’s humanity is the Son of God, even as the Jews did also, for which reason they
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Reflection
Our belief that Jesus Christ is both God and Human begins as a small seed and grows over many years. What are your current thoughts or questions about Jesus as God in Human Form?
