"....Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

"And Jesus said unto him, So sayest thou."

And the multitude cried out, "Let him be crucified."

"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it...."

"Then the soldiers took Jesus and platted a crown of thorns upon his head, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! And they spit upon him, and smote him on the head."

"Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

Then they nailed his hands and feet to a cross beam...they crucified him... and in agony Jesus hung on the cross....

....and as the pitiless crowds sneered and mocked him, the dying Jesus, in mortal agony "cried with a loud voice, saying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And then, as the crowds laughed and jeered, "Jesus, cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up the ghost"

Jesus Christ was dead. They had crucified him.

He had died to cleanse the world of evil and to redeem it of its sins.

God had now sealed the New Covenant.

"Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. -Luke 24.

So far, everything had gone according to plan, and indeed, Jesus had been planning his death, and crucifixion, for years.

Now, in just three days time, Jesus would awaken from a drug induced death-like sleep, and would be proclaimed: Jesus the Christ, King of the Jews, and thus, King of Israel.

But then, something went terribly wrong.