Book Details
Publisher: Northern Lights Publishing House
Published: May 2015
ISBN10: 1514130866
ISBN13: 9781514130865
Genre: General
Subgenre: Historical
Target Audience: Children
Website: bit.ly/Death-Resurrection
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Topics/Issues
Pilate, Simon the Cyrenian, crucifixion, Thieves on Crosses, Joseph of Aramathea, Guards at Jesus' tomb, funeral, regret, Alphaeus, Matthias, Abandoned, abandonment, abandon, Abusive, Abused, abuse, anger, betrayed, betrayal, bully, caregiving, end of life, end-of-life, deceit, deception, depression, depressed, faith, faithful, fear, fearful, forgiving, forgive, forgiveness, grace, grief, death, mourning, loss, grieving, guilt, guilty, hope, hopeful, hopefulness, pain, chronic pain, peer, Racial, racism, prejudice, reconciliation, reconcile, redemption, salvation, redeem
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Shadow of Death: A Child's Life of Christ (THEY MET JESUS) (Volume 7)
By Katheryn Maddox Haddad
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1 ~ PILATE
The few Temple leaders who were bad next took Jesus over to Roman Governor Pilate's palace.
They did not like Pilate because he was a foreigner ruling them. A foreigner is someone who lives in another country but is visiting your country.
The Jews were not allowed to execute anyone. Only a Roman governor could do that. "Put him to death!" the few bad Jews cried.
Pilate ordered all of the Temple leaders to leave. He wanted to be alone with Jesus. Pilate saw how badly the soldiers had beaten Jesus and felt sorry for him.
He had a long talk with Jesus. Jesus answered all his questions because he really wanted to know the truth.
Jesus explained that the kind of kingdom he was going to rule was "not of this world." Pilate believed him and liked him even more.
Governor Pilate told the few Jews who were bad he would not put Jesus to death because he didn't do anything wrong. But the men just got madder.
Once a year Pilate let a guilty prisoner go free as a favor to the Jews. He told them he could release Jesus.
But they said they wanted a killer released instead. "What am I supposed to do with Jesus, then?" Pilate asked.
They kept saying they wanted Jesus put to death. Pilate replied that he would have Jesus beaten real bad instead, and let him live. But they kept shouting that they wanted Jesus put to death.
Pilate ordered that Jesus be beaten real bad anyway, hoping the few bad Jewish leaders would change their mind. But they didn't.
So Pilate ordered a bowl of water brought to him. Pilate washed his hands in front of the people and said he was washing off the bad that was about to happen to Jesus.
Of course you can't really wash bad off your hands, but it was another "stand-in" like bread standing in for Jesus' body. The dirt on Pilate's hands stood in or treating Jesus bad.
It was now morning. They had been up all night. Then Jesus was led away from the palace to walk out of the city of Jerusalem and up a hill where he would die in our place as punishment for our sins.
THINK & DO
1. Jesus could have stopped the bad way they were treating him and talking about him. He could have just gone to heaven right then. But he stayed. Why? Because he loved us very, very much.
Jesus always preached that, when people were mean to us, we were to be nice to them. That is very hard to do. It was hard for Jesus to do. But he did it anyway. To be like Jesus, we need to be that way also, as hard as it is to do.