John 19:16-27
The Crucifixion of Jesus
So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”
This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,
“They divided my clothes among them
and cast lots for my garment.”
So this is what the soldiers did.
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
Romans 3:21-26
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Romans 6:23
Wages of Sin is Death
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:16-17
God LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
What did Jesus do to get crucified on the cross?...As believers read through the four gospels, it seems when Jesus is crucified, there is something unfair about our world...When Jesus was crucified, it seems that the world was and is cruel and unjust...Yet, that was a part of God's Plan...For Jesus to come to earth, to walk with man, to teach man, to die on the cross for man, to resurrect, and then to ascend to heaven...And Jesus did all these things...So did Jesus really receive justice on the cross?...He was the Perfect Man...He died for us and saved us, and is that justice?...
The question of is the world just, and do we want it to be just comes from somewhere or Someone...When someone knowingly cuts in line at a restaurant or cuts in line on a freeway when everyone else is waiting in that same line, we deem that as unfair?...When someone does an injustice toward a child, there is a universal feeling of wrongdoing...When we are personally treated unfairly, we feel negatively toward others -and this feeling is universal (it is not a personal idea that each one of us has)...Why don't we just think in these situations neutrally, and without feeling, and be nonjudgmental toward those treating us unfairly...It seems we want people world wide to behave in a certain and just way...This universal thought, feeling, and universal idea of justice comes from God...
I think that many people think that the world is cruel and unjust...C. S. Lewis wrote about that subject...Lewis said, “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust...But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?...A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line...What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?...If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?...Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own...But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies...Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense...If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark...Dark would be without meaning.”...
God sees that we sin...And the wages of sin is our death...Jesus died for my sins and our sins...Jesus takes away the injustice of our sinning and our personal sin debts...We die, but God gives us a righteousness, which is a gift...And that gift and righteousness is His Son, who had to die for us, if we are to have eternal life, and to live with Them...And by believing in God and the One He sent, we may be LOVED and have eternal life...God gave His Son to us because He LOVES us...And when He gave His Son to us and for us, justice is done, righteousness happens, and we better see that LOVE exists...
The idea of justice is full of sense...The idea of justice helps give life meaning...The universe by having and wanting justice is an argument for God...Man has found out early on that a cruel and unfair world is not right, and is not the way life is to be...We found out because God allowed each of us to feel wronged about our personal injustices...God delivers us justice through His Son and in a most mysterious way...