Tom Cruise: “I WANT THE TRUTH!”
Jack Nicholson: “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!”
Yesterday, my friend Bruce Arnold send me a YouTube link ( https://www.youtube.com/embed/594Oxq4c0XA?feature=player_embedded%20 ) which listed the top one hundred famous movie lines and I enjoyed it thoroughly! I hope you take the time to either click on the link or paste it into your browser; it will be time well spent.
My favorite lines were from “A Few Good Men”. The exchange between these two men has been the most memorable of all the movies that I can remember.
This prompted me to think: what is the most memorable saying that anyone has ever said? My answer to that question is found within the last verse of the Bible passage below…
John 19 ( World English Bible )
16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull,” which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha,”
18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.
25 But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!”
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
“It is Finished” signifies the end of Jesus’ suffering and the inauguration of the new covenant between God and human beings. With these words, Jesus gave up his spirit and those who have obeyed Jesus’ gospel have the hope of eternal life. To me, these words are the most important ones that anyone has ever said. Are they important to you? I sincerely hope so!
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