Last Week we ended with Simon of Cyrene carrying Jesus’ cross to Golgotha. This week we pick up in Chapter 23:37 where Jesus speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem and we will end with his death on the cross.

Luke Lesson 43 Study Questions

1.    Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children: With good reason, certain women mourned and lamented when they saw Jesus being treated in this fashion. Jesus essentially told them, “Don’t _____ for Me, weep for those who _______ Me.”

2.    For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry? The idea is “If this is the fate of the __________ (Jesus referring to Himself), what will happen to the _______?”

3.    When they had come to the place called Calvary: There was a specific place outside the city walls of Jerusalem yet still close, where people were crucified. At this place called _________ Jesus died for our sins, and our salvation was accomplished. Calvary means, “place of a _______,” and it was the place where criminals were crucified.

4.    “Although the Romans did not ________ crucifixion, they __________ it as a form of torture and capital punishment that was designed to produce a slow death with maximum pain and suffering.” (Edwards)

5.    There they crucified Him: The most significant thing about Jesus’ suffering was that He was not, in any sense, the ________ of circumstances. He was in control. Jesus said of His life in John 10:18, no one takes it from Me, but I ____ it down of Myself. 

6.    Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do: The love of Jesus never _____. On the cross, He prayed even for His ____________, asking God the Father to not hold this sin against them.

7.    “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.” Yet it was precisely because He did not save ________ that He can save others. It could be rightly said that _____ kept Jesus on the cross, not nails.

8.    Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise: Jesus answered the _______ of the second criminal, assuring him that his life after death would be with Jesus, and be in _________, not torment.

9.    A Roman historian named Phlegon wrote: “In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad, there was an extraordinary _______ of the sun: at the sixth hour, the day turned into dark ______, so that the stars in heaven were seen; and there was an earthquake.” 

10.    When Jesus had cried out with a loud voice: Jesus cried out something with a loud voice, then He spoke to God the Father in the lines that follow. John 19:30 tells us what He said: it is finished, which is one word in the Greek (tetelestai – “____ ___ _____”). 

11.    “The words of v. 46, ‘Jesus expired’ (‘breathed out His life’), can be seen to echo Genesis 2:7. There it is said that God breathed into Adam the breath of life, and he became a living soul. The one God breathed into the ________ of life – Adam; the other breathed out the ________ of life – Jesus. The latter paid the consequences for the sin of the former in order to inaugurate a new creation.” 

12.    When the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God: At the expiration of Jesus on the cross, the Gentile centurion immediately gave _______ to God and understood ______ for who He was (Certainly this was a righteous man).