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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: God Doesn’t Manipulate Us with the Sufferings of Jesus
Description: So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.Mark 15:15In this description there are no gory details, just the facts. Notice how the Bible shows great restraint in describing the physical sufferings of Jesus. This is important because there’s a real temptation for every teacher of the Bible to use the violence of what Jesus suffered to shock people. But you don't find that in the Bible.There is no attempt to have an impact by making people sq...