Over at First Things, pastor Peter J. Leithart has a beautiful reflection on the themes from Matthew’s Passion narrative. Soldiers, bystanders, officials all mock Jesus as he approaches the crucifixion, but the mockery is turned back on them.

Matthew’s ironic Passion narrative reveals a God who twists mockery back on the mockers. Roman soldiers mock Jesus as “King of the Jews,” but as he dies, they confess, without irony, “Truly this was the Son of God” (Matt. 27:54).........

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