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The Truth About Angels
While Pilate was hesitating as to what he should do, a messenger
pressed through the crowd, and handed him the letter from his wife,
which read:
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” Have thou nothing to do with that just Man: for I have suffered
many things this day in a dream because of Him.”
Pilate’s face grew pale. He was confused by his own conflicting
emotions. But while he had been delaying to act, the priests and rulers
were still further inflaming the minds of the people....
Pilate longed to deliver Jesus. But he saw that he could not do this,
and yet retain his own position and honor. Rather than lose his worldly
power, he chose to sacrifice an innocent life....
Pilate yielded to the demands of the mob. Rather than risk losing
his position, he delivered Jesus up to be crucified.—
The Desire of
Ages, 732, 733, 738
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Christ’s Crucifixion
The Son of God was delivered to the people to be crucified.... They
laid on Him the heavy cross ... but Jesus fainted beneath the burden.
They then seized ... a man who had not openly professed faith in
Christ, yet believed on Him. They laid on him the cross and he bore it
to the fatal spot. Companies of angels were marshaled in the air above
the place.—
Spiritual Gifts 1:57
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Who witnessed these scenes? The heavenly universe, God the
Father, Satan and his angels.—
The Bible Echo, May 29, 1899
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Heavenly angels ... heard the mocking taunts and saw the wagging
of heads. Gladly would they have broken their ranks and gone to the
Son of God in His humiliation and bodily anguish, but this they were
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not permitted to do.—
Manuscript Releases 18:71
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“He saved others; himself he cannot save,” was the mocking taunt
hurled at Christ during the agony of His death on the cross. At any
moment He could have saved Himself, and come down from the cross;
but had He done this, the world would have been given over to the
control of the great apostate. It was a marvel to the angels that Christ
did not seal with death the lips of the scoffers.—
The Youth’s Instructor,
June 14, 1900
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