Matthew 27:32-66

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Jesus Greatest Feat

• Final hours fulfilled prophesy
• The Climax
• Burial and care of Jesus

Path to Golgotha

• Death Hill is overcome
• Jesus didn't deaden the pain
• Each step He took willingly
• God sent Simon of Cyrenne

Simon of Cyrenne

• Unexpected encounter with The Saviour
• Jew from North Africa
• Sons, Rufus and Alexander
• Wife, Rufus mother, Rom 16

Psalm 22

• Messianic prophecies
• 7 fulfilled in 6 hours
• 1000 years ago
• Detailed, specific
• Supernatural confirmation

Climax

• "It is finished." John
• "Father into your hands I commit my Spirit." Luke
• Uttered a loud cry. Mark
• Jesus cried out with a loud voice and yielded up His Spirit. Matthew

Results

• Veil of the temple torn in 2
• Rocks split tombs opened
• Dead Saints rise
• Satan lost his hold
• Death has lost its sting
• In Christ we live forever

"They were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the son of God."
Matthew 27:54

Burial of Jesus

• Joseph of Arimathea
• Nicodemus helped
• 75 lbs burial spices
• Newly hewn tomb
• Mary Magdalene, Mary present
• Carefully sealed with stone

The great feat has been accomplished, death has been overcome.

"Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generations; they shall come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn...

...that He has done it!"