Day 71 of Reading the Bible in 90 Days

We are into the 71 day and will read beginning in Matthew 27.

Matthew 27

The morning of the passover day, the chief priest decided to put Jesus to death. They found Him guilty of blasphemy. When Judas saw they were really going to kill Jesus, now he felt condemned and repented and tried to bring back the money. The chief priest did not want anything to do with those 30 pieces of silver. Judas through the money down on the floor, left and hung himself. Jesus was right. It was better that he was never born (v1-5).


When Jesus was brought before the governor, Pontius Pilate, He was asked if He was indeed the King of the Jews. Jesus reply was that, "you're saying this." I'm not sure if this is a question or a reply but it sure got Pilate nervous.


Jesus would not respond nor answer anyone after this and no one could get him to talk. This bother Pilate. He began to release a prisoner as was the custom during a feast day and the Jews asked for the release of a murderous freak over their very own Lord and God. Pilate's wife told him to have nothing to do with the death of Jesus, the just man, because she had horrible dreams last night because of Him. God knows that a man will listen to His wife, so does Satan, that is why He went and spoke with Eve instead of Adam.


²⁴When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
²⁵Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.


Pilate tried to get Jesus off the hook; but the people were insistent and finally when he could not prevail; he washed his hands of the situation (yes this is where they get the saying, I'm washing my hands of this situation). The children of Judah furthered their own affliction and captivity by putting the blood of an innocent man, even of Jesus, upon their own head. The soldiers mocked Him, stripped Him, then prepared to lead Him to where He would be crucified. Look at the trouble the children of Judah have brought on the Roman soldiers.


³⁴They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
³⁵And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
³⁷And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


We read about the vinegar and gal to drink in Psalm, David wrote about something and here Matthew writes on it that He saw this being done or heard others who were following along saw this. His crucifix has the name, Jesus the King of the Jews on it; and people passed by shaking their heads. And plenty of people mocked and mocked; I felt like how Peter always felt like; I wanted Jesus to hop off the cross and destroy His enemies with His angels. However, we have to want the will of the Father and that will be the only way, not what we emotionally desire.


⁴⁵Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
⁵¹And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;


Now from about noon to three PM, it was completely dark all over the entire earth. We remember that prophecy in Amos and the prayer from David how the He prayed to the Father and the Father came off His thrown and covered the sky with darkness under His feet because Jesus had shouted out, "my God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?"


Jesus then cried with one more loud painful shout and died (v50). As that happened, the veil in the temple ripped from top to the bottom as earthquakes roared and rocks were broken up. In Leviticus chapter 4, we remember the purpose of the veil. It was for the priest to perform their animal sacrifice rituals. God ripped the veil, symbolizing no more need for animal sacrifice. Thus animal sacrificial law was the law nailed to the cross.


⁵²And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
⁵³And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
⁵⁴Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.


People believe this was the first resurrection. It wasn't! Elijah raised the dead, and so did Jesus. These people were resurrected but not into eternal life. God was showing miracles to let the people know, what they did was done to a very important being. Not VIP, but VIB, that is God. So He raised some people from the dead and they went and showed themselves to their family and people, showing the power of God.

Matthew chapter 28

Now the Sabbath day is coming to an end (keep in mind the evening then the morning completes a day) so if the Sabbath day is ending and we're going into the first day of the week, that would be, in today's calendar, Saturday day, going into Saturday night. Saturday night is actually the beginning of the Sunday and the first day of the week. So the women are going to the tomb on what we call Saturday night, but in those days it would be Sunday night to check on the body. An angel appeared scaring the guards to paralysis and spoke gently with the women, letting them know that Jesus is not there; but has risen from the dead as He has been telling you. Keep in mind that this conversation is going on, on what we call Saturday night, and Jesus is already risen from the grave. This means He did not rise from the grave on Sunday; but Saturday!


They went to tell the brothers that Jesus was alive; and as they were going, Jesus met them and told them that He'd meet the brothers in Galiee. Probably trying to keep them out of the trouble of Jerusalem. The Pharisees paid the soldiers who were standing guard not to tell the people what happened with the angels, but rather tell them that the disciples came and stole the body.


¹⁴And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
¹⁵So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.


This is common among the Jews, the Jewish people, the Arabs, and many others people who do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah.
The twelve disciples met in Galilee as Jesus said, minus Judas, who by the way gave up His seat as a potential judge of Israel and eternal life, for 30 pieces of silver that he never even made use of. They saw Him and worshiped Him, even though some were not sure it was Him. Jesus said all power is given to Him in heaven and earth; so the disciples were told to go to and teach all people and nations, baptizing them in the name of Jesus (Jesus came in His Father's name, and the Holy Ghost comes in the name of Jesus).

Mark 1 ¹The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

⁴John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.


Mark is the second of the gospel books; and we will read similar stories from the book of Matthew. So I won't dwell as hard as Matthew unless Mark had a completely different view or angel on a topic. We see opening up that Mark confirms as did Matthew that John the Baptist was the voice crying in the wilderness that Isaiah the prophet wrote about.


²¹And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
²²And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.


We saw this in the Matthew gospel; that Jesus taught on the Sabbath days in the synagogues and taught things that people hadn't heard of from the regular ministers.


In Mark chapter 2 we see the same story of Jesus healing the man by telling him his sins are forgiven. We read that the Son of man had power to forgive sins. What we learn in essence is that sins cause health detriments and ultimately death. It is all caused by sins.


²⁷And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
²⁸Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.


Also, the Sabbath day was made for man. God did not make man for the Sabbath day; therefore what can or cannot be done on the Sabbath is the Lord's discretion and not man's. Because Jesus, is the Lord of the Sabbath.


Mark chapter 3, Jesus selects and ordains His followers, and heals and teaches in the synagogues. He also picks up more enemies from the Pharisees who did not like His doctrine because it threatened their positions.

Mark 4

¹And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.
²And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,


Chapter four is the chapter with the parables.


³Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: We see the parable of the sower of seeds that we read in Matthew.
He spoke parables to the people, but with His disciples He expounded on them so that they knew the clear meaning.

Mark 5

¹And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. Here is the story about the crazy man in the Gadarenes that no one in that village came near because he was sore controlled by devils.


This man saw Jesus for the first time and ran over and worshiped Him; because his mind was infested by devils, unclean spirits. The evil angels know who Jesus is and they know that the lake of fire was created for them; that why he asked why had Jesus come to torment him before the appointed time. The angels know about the lake of fire; that's why they tremble; but man we don't know about so we are not as much afraid.


Jesus sent them into the feeding pigs who stormed into the sea. ¹³And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.


There was about 2,000 of them. I can understand why that farmer was upset; but Jesus would let that happen to a just man. I'm sure the herder was eating the swine and selling it to people to eat.


¹⁹Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.


Mark tells a bit more in this story on how the possessed man came back and wanted to follow Jesus, but Jesus told him to stay and spread the news to the people in that area on how good the Lord has been to him. You see a lunatic who no one went near and you see him in his right man; it is better for him to stay and be a testimonial to the people than following Jesus.


³⁴And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. Our own faith prompts and heals us.
Jesus was on his way to heal a certain Pharisees daughter but on the way, they received the news that she had died. ³⁶As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.


Jesus took Peter, James, and John and went and saw people crying and wailing greatly, and Jesus told the people not to cry because she is only sleeping and not dead. The same people who were crying were now laughing Jesus to scorn. He put everyone out except the mother and the father and his disciples that came with him and saw the girl lying.


⁴¹And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
⁴²And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
⁴³And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.


The power of God!

Mark 6

⁴But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.



If you're ever very successful or even mediocre at something and your family never respects what you do or praise you for doing it, just remember this verse four. Although people were astonished at Jesus wisdom, many just couldn't bring themselves to really believing Him because they knew His people and His upbringing. They should have read the bible.


Jesus feeds the thousands of people and He walks on water. It would be amazing if people would see something like this today.


Mark chapter 7
Jesus is confronted about His disciples not washing their hands before they eat; a tradition of the Jews.

⁷Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

⁸For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

⁹And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.



It is a bad thing to put a family tradition or a cultural tradition before God's commandments and Jesus let's us know this clearly here. It is not good to void God's commandments to keep traditions. You become a hypocrite.

Mark 8

¹In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
²I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:



Jesus feeds another multitude with little fish and a few loaves of bread.

³⁸Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. This verse is powerful, for people to not be ashamed of the Lord.

Mark 9

¹And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
²And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
³And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
⁴And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.


When we read this in Matthew it was not laid out as it is here; and some key words were missing. Jesus said that some that are there with Him at that moment will not die until they have "seen the kingdom of God with power." Then six days later Peter, James, and John went to the mountain and Jesus was transfigured right there before them. They also saw Elijah and Moses, men who are dead, but were there speaking to Jesus in His kingdom. The vision they saw (seen) the kingdom of God with power. Mark's version makes it a bit easier to understand this scenario.


Part of the Team


³⁹But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
⁴⁰For he that is not against us is on our part.


A man who was not a direct follower of Jesus but believe in the name and was doing good in rebuking and removing evil spirits from people was seen by the disciples. They told Jesus that they stopped him. Jesus told them not to stop anyone doing good works in the name of Jesus.


Lake of Fire Description from Jesus


⁴⁴Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
⁴⁶Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
⁴⁸Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.


These references were for people who had things, traditions, weaknesses that would cause them to not come up short of the kingdom of God. The other option is the lake of fire, where the worms eat on you continuously and the fire burns but does not burn you up. This is from Jesus Himself. It's not a pleasant thing.


This concludes the days reading. See you tomorrow.


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Peace & Grace

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