“And when they had crucified him, they parted his clothes, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.” Commentary: They played the lottery to see who would get Jesus clothes! They hung him on a Cross to shame you! Hung up naked! To let the governed populations of the Roman Empire know that Rome was in charge! Defy Rome and death was your end! It was evil that got Jesus up on the Cross! Then evil all around the Cross like the soldiers gambling for his clothes! The mockers in the crowd! Save yourself Jesus you saved others! Get down from the Cross! Do another miracle Jesus! Jesus resisted evil yet he submitted to evil to get to the Cross! Not my will but thy will be done! Crucify him said the crowd! Did you ever notice when any culture abandons God including America that what was once celebrated is now condemned! What was once condemned is now celebrated! Gay marriage, homosexuals, lesbianism, transgenderism, socialism, wokism, communism, atheism, abortion and the list goes on! Then as a decaying culture if you do not celebrate what God has condemned then you are condemned! The great leaders of America like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln are now condemned? So the crowds that celebrated Jesus as he did his miracles now condemn him! Except for a few of his disciples yet some of them denied him and fled! If you are not persecuted then you are not following Jesus and then you will be persecuting Jesus followers! Evil always persecutes good! Better to be persecuted with a loving relationship with the Savior than persecuting the righteous with loss of your soul separated from God forever! The Apostle Paul was a persecutor of Christians then Jesus along the Road to Damascus asked Paul why are you persecuting me? Paul then by the end of his life wrote about 1/3 of our New Testament! God can do great things with wicked people and transform them into the image of God! That is what he did for me! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com