{"product_id":"2940014815352","title":"Christian Tri-Pack","description":"Christian Tri-Pack Includes: In The Steps Of Jesus, Inspirational Bible Stories, \u0026amp; The Shepherd!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION\u003cbr\u003eWhen the morning came, the priests met once more with all the chief Jews,\u003cbr\u003eand said Jesus must die. But the Jews could not put anyone to death. The\u003cbr\u003eRomans would not allow it. So they took Jesus to the Roman governor,\u003cbr\u003ewhose name was Pontius Pilate.\u003cbr\u003e40\u003cbr\u003eWhen Judas saw that the priests had made up their minds to kill Jesus, he\u003cbr\u003ebegan to feel very unhappy. He did not care for the money now. He came\u003cbr\u003eto the Temple, and brought it back to the priest, and said, ‘It was very wrong\u003cbr\u003eof me to give Jesus up to you. He had done nothing wrong.’ But their\u003cbr\u003ehearts were as hard as stone. They said to Judas, ‘What is that to us? See\u003cbr\u003ethou to that.’ Then Judas had no hope left. He flung the thirty pieces of\u003cbr\u003esilver down in the Court of the Priests, and went and hung himself. But oh!\u003cbr\u003ewhat a pity that he did not go to Jesus and ask Jesus to forgive him, instead\u003cbr\u003eof going to the priests!\u003cbr\u003eJesus is a good, kind, loving Master. When we do wrong, if we are very\u003cbr\u003esorry, like Peter, and will come and ask Jesus, He will forgive us. For\u003cbr\u003e‘THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S SON, CLEANSETH US\u003cbr\u003eFROM ALL SIN.’\u003cbr\u003ePilate took Jesus inside his splendid palace, away from the Jews, and asked\u003cbr\u003eHim, ‘Art thou a King then?’\u003cbr\u003e41\u003cbr\u003e‘Yes,’ Jesus said, ‘but My kingdom is not of this world. I came into this\u003cbr\u003eworld to teach people the truth. That is the reason I was born.’\u003cbr\u003e‘What is truth?’ said Pilate. But he did not wait for an answer. He went out\u003cbr\u003eagain to the Jews.\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Jews saw Pilate again, they began to tell him lies which they had\u003cbr\u003ebeen making up about Jesus. And Jesus stood by and said nothing.\u003cbr\u003ePresently Pilate said to Jesus, ‘See what a number of things they are saying\u003cbr\u003eagainst you. Have you nothing to say?’\u003cbr\u003eBut Jesus did not answer one single word, and Pilate was greatly surprised.\u003cbr\u003eHe felt sure that the quiet prisoner was right and that the Jews were wrong;\u003cbr\u003eand he said to the priests and to the people, ‘I find in Him no fault at all.’\u003cbr\u003eIt was the custom for Pilate at Passover time to set free from prison any one\u003cbr\u003eprisoner the people liked to ask for. So Pilate said to the crowd, ‘Shall I let\u003cbr\u003eJesus go?’ Then the priests told the people what to say, and they shouted,\u003cbr\u003e‘Not this man, but Barabbas.’\u003cbr\u003ePilate wanted very much to let Jesus go, and he said, ‘What shall I do then\u003cbr\u003ewith Jesus?’\u003cbr\u003eThe crowd shouted, ‘Let Him be crucified! Crucify Him! Crucify Him!’\u003cbr\u003e‘Why,’ said Pilate, ‘what has He done wrong? He does not deserve to die. I\u003cbr\u003ewill scourge Him and let Him go.’\u003cbr\u003eThen the people cried out more loudly than ever, ‘Let Him be crucified!\u003cbr\u003eCrucify Him!’\u003cbr\u003eBut Pilate did not want to be shouted at for five or six days and nights again.\u003cbr\u003eAnd, besides, he rather wanted to please the Jews if he could, because he had\u003cbr\u003edone many things to vex them; so he thought, ‘I will do what they wish.’\u003cbr\u003eBut first he had a basin of water brought, and he washed his hands before all\u003cbr\u003ethe people, and said, ‘I have nothing to do with the blood of this good Man.\u003cbr\u003eSee ye to it.’ And all the people answered and said, ‘His blood be on us, and\u003cbr\u003eon our children.’ Sometimes now, when we don’t want to have anything to\u003cbr\u003edo with a thing, we say, ‘I wash my hands of it.’ But Pilate did have\u003cbr\u003esomething to do with the death of Jesus, and water would not wash away\u003cbr\u003ethat sin.\u003cbr\u003eAnd at last, wishing to please them, Pilate had Barabbas brought out of\u003cbr\u003eprison, and gave Jesus up to be beaten. The Roman soldiers seized Jesus,\u003cbr\u003e42\u003cbr\u003eand took off His clothes and put a scarlet dress on Him, to imitate the\u003cbr\u003eEmperor’s purple robe; and they twisted pieces of a thorny plant which\u003cbr\u003egrows round Jerusalem into the shape of a crown, and put it on His head;\u003cbr\u003eand they put a reed in His hand for a sceptre. And then all the soldiers fell\u003cbr\u003edown before Jesus, and said, ‘Hail, King of the Jews.’ And then they spit at\u003cbr\u003eJesus, and slapped Him; and they snatched the reed out of His hands and\u003cbr\u003estruck Him on the head, so as to drive in the thorns.\u003cbr\u003eOutside the city gate, on the north side of Jerusalem, there is a round hill,\u003cbr\u003ecalled the Place of Stoning. On one side of that hill there is a straight yellow\u003cbr\u003ecliff, and prisoners used sometimes to be thrown down from that cliff, and\u003cbr\u003ethen stoned. And sometimes they were taken to the top of that round hill\u003cbr\u003eand crucified. It is very likely that this is where the soldiers took Jesus.","brand":"Tea Time eBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164732571888,"sku":"2940014815352","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014815352_p0.jpg?v=1763615787","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014815352","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}