
The Cause of His Death - Part 1
The Bible for Today with John Stott
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The Last Hours of Jesus' Death
Jesus was still a comparatively young man, almost certainly he was between 30 and 35 years of age. He had barely lived out one half of our human allotted time. For this very simple reason, jesus did not regard the death that he was about to die as bringing his mission to an untimely end but as actually necessary to accomplish it. It was only seconds before he died, only then that he was able to shout, it has been finished. They give us his own authoritative explanation as to why his body was to be given and his blood was to be shed in death.
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