I made the title a question because I’m not sure if that’s a lesson in Matthew 27.

As I go toward the end of the chapter I noticed the expression “Son of God” used several times.

Apparently many of the common folks, walking by Jesus’ cross, had this to remark:

“If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross” (40).

The religious leaders had their own version of the same attitude:

“Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God” (42,43).

But what about those Gentile warriors, those battle-hardened, vicious, morally-corrupt, cruel Roman soldiers?

“Now 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” (54).

I wonder how many of those soliders became Christians.

But like I said at the beginning — What’s the lesson here?

Posted: December 5