Jesus Abandoned | Mark 14:43-52

Mark 14:19

19 They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”

Mark 14:42

42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

”Rise, let us be going; see, my BETRAYER is at hand.”

  1. Judas’ Betrayal was Secretly Deceitful

  2. Judas’ Betrayal was Blindly Justifiable & Irrational

  3. Judas’ Betrayal was Terribly Consequential

Mark 14:43

43 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

Judas’ Betrayal was Secretly Deceitful

Mark 14:44-46

44 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.” 45 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him. 46 And they laid hands on him and seized him.

Judas’ Betrayal was Blindly Justifiable & Irrational

Mark 14:44

44 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.”

Mark 14:45-46

45 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him.46 And they laid hands on him and seized him.

Mark 14:47

47 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant[a] of the high priest and cut off his ear.

Mark 14:29

29 Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.”

John 18:4-6

Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.”[a] Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When Jesus[b] said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

Mark 14:48-50

48 And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.” 50 And they all left him and fled.

Mark 14:48-50

48 And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.” 50 And they all left him and fled.

Mark 14:27

27 And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

  1. Judas’ Betrayal was Secretly Deceitful

  2. Judas’ Betrayal was Blindly Justifiable & Irrational

  3. Judas’ Betrayal was Terribly Consequential

Mark 14:51-52

51 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

  1. Judas’ Betrayal was Secretly Deceitful

  2. Judas’ Betrayal was Blindly Justifiable & Irrational

  3. Judas’ Betrayal was Terribly Consequential

Sermon Point

Jesus Was Abandoned and Shamed by My Sin So That In My Sin and Shame I Would Not Be Abandoned

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