Miracles at the crucifixion.

1. They could not take him until his time appointed came (Matthew 26:18).
2. When Jesus spoke to those who came to arrest him, "they went backward, and fell to the ground (John 18:6).
3. Jesus healed the ear of the servant of the high priest that had been cut off by a sword (Luke 22:50-51).
4. Pilate's wife's dream and her warning to Pilate, "Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him" (Matthew 27:19).
5. The fulfillment of many ancient Bible prophecies.
6. Jesus saved one of the thieves and took him to paradise with him (Luke 23:40-43).
7. Darkness over all the land from the 6th to the 9th hour (noon to 3:00 p.m.) (Matthew 27:45).
8. The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom (Matthew 27:53).
9. There was an earthquake and the rocks were split or torn apart (Matthew 27:51).
10. Graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection (Matthew 27:51-52).
11. "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" (Matthew 27:54).

The Indignities heaped on Jesus

1. Questions they asked Jesus, trying to entrap him in his words.
2. He was betrayed into the hands of his enemies for thirty pieces of silver by Judas, one of his disciples.
3. His arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane by a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people (Matthew 26:47).
4. They laid hands on him and led him away to the high priest's palace, followed by an illegal. mock trial (Matthew 26:57).
5. The religious leaders actually sought false witnesses against him (Matthew 26:59).
6. He told them the truth when asked whether he were the Son of God and said "Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand over power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." The high priest rent his clothes and accused him of blasphemy (Matthew 26:63-65).
7. They spit in his face, buffeted him, and smote him with the palms of their hands (Matthew 26:67).
8. They blind-folded him, smote him, saying Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? (Matthew 26:68; Luke 22:64).
9. Peter denied that he even knew him (Matthew 26:69-75).
10. "One of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?" (John 18:22-23).
11. He was bound and led away to Pilate where they demanded his death warrant.
12. He was accused falsely by the chief priests and elders before the Roman governor, Pilate (Matthew 27:13). "And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King" (Luke 23:2).
13. Pilate sent him to Herod; "Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate" (Luke 23:11).
14. When Pilate offered to release a prisoner of their preference, they preferred the release of Barabas, a murderer (Mark 15:7).
15. Pilate admitted that Jesus was a just man and yet gave him over to be crucified (Matthew 27:24-25).
16. Pilate had Jesus scourged before he was crucified (Matthew 27:26). The scourge was a cruel and debilitating lash used to whip the body of Jesus.
17. He was stripped of his own clothes and they mockingly put on him a scarlet robe, a crown of thorns on his head and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him saying, Hail, King of the Jews! (Matthew 27:28-29).
18. Again they spit on him and took the reed and smote him on the head (Matthew 27:30).