And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right, and the other on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors. And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself, and come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.-Mark 15:25-39***Less than 33 1/2 years after Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born into the tribe of Judah to Joseph and his wife Mary, a virgin, after being conceived of the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb when Mary was a virgin, Jesus was betrayed, arrested and crucified. Although 2 criminals who were being crucified initially spoke the same insults to Jesus that the crowd was shouting, 1 of the criminals asked Jesus to remember him. Among the crowd of onlookers were people who knew that Jesus had stated to a group of Israelites that if the temple was destroyed, in 3 days he would raise the temple. However, they were not aware that Jesus spoke of the temple of his body. In the crowd were chief priests and scribes, 2 of the groups that banded together to put Jesus to death. Some of the onlookers thought that Jesus was making a loud shout to Elijah (Elias), the prophet who went up into heaven by a whirlwind over 800 years earlier. After the final breath before Jesus was buried in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500 people, and returned to heaven, the veil was torn. Over 1,400 years before the veil was torn, Moses and his older brother Aaron led their fellow Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, Moses went upon Mount Sinai and was with the Lord God for 40 days and nights. the region of Mount Sinai, with Moses and his older brother Aaron. The Lord God described to Moses and showed him the likeness of the tabernacle and the veil and other sacred items that were to be made. The veil was hung inside the tabernacle to separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place (Holy of Holies), wherein the ark of the covenant of the Lord was kept. Only Aaron and his sons and the sons born to their descendants were to serve the Lord God as priests at the tabernacle, according to the command of the Lord God. Moreover, only Aaron and his sons and their specified descendants were to take the veil down and cover the ark with the veil each time the Israelites moved during their 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land. Over 1,400 years after Joshua, Moses' successor, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants, Jesus, the Christ, was born.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 3:5-4:49, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:12-23, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 1 Corinthians 15:1-58
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Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.-Isaiah 53:12
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