You Deny the Holy and Righteous One and You Ask for a Killer

The great irony here is that one of the false accusations that was brought against Jesus in the gospel accounts was basically that he was an insurrectionist. They asked for Barabbas to be released so that Jesus would be carted off to his death. He's an insurrectionist, we want him dead, but give us an insurrectionist in return. Just doesn't make any sense. It's just proof that God had ordained from before time that this was going to take place. In our nature, in ourselves, in our own fallen depravity, Ephesians two says that by nature we're children of wrath,. We're born into a completely different dominion than what Jesus is. This is