# #250: Jesus' Crucifixion

An episode of [Truth Seekers: Bible Stories for Kids - Christian Kids Podcast, Family-Friendly Bible Podcast, Christian Parenting Resource](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1347649088), 3 Mar 2026, 17 min.

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In this episode of the Truth Seekers Bible Stories for Kids podcast, we follow Jesus' story through His crucifixion. We learn that Jesus' death was not the end of the story, but part of a bigger plan that God set in motion from before time began. Truth Seekers is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit www.ChristianParenting.org

## Transcript

[0:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Christian parenting.
[0:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hello and welcome to the True Seekers podcast.
[0:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The True Seekers is someone who wants to know the truth.
[0:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They search for what's true and they won't rest until they find it.
[0:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I am a True Seeker and if you are too, then you come to the right place where we will search for truth each week in the stories of the Bible.
[0:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But, hello and welcome back to the True Seekers podcast.
[0:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Today's episode, we have made it to the moment of Jesus' death on the cross.
[0:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But True Seekers, this moment was not a surprise to God.
[0:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: From before time began, God the Father had a plan, and He knew that Jesus would be the one who would come.
[0:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and give His life for our sins.
[0:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There are many clues that God gave us throughout the Old Testament that point to what Jesus would do.
[0:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, the prophet wrote in the book of Isaiah about a servant who would be pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our sins.
[1:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Isaiah 53 talks about the servant who would do this.
[1:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He was pointing to Jesus.
[1:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That means God told his people ahead of time that someone would suffer, not for his own wrongs, but for ours.
[1:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That someone would be Jesus.
[1:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the book of Psalms, Psalm 22 describes hands and feet being pierced and soldiers dividing garments.
[1:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: details that you will see, match, what happened at the cross.
[1:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Psalm 69 even mentions giving vinegar to someone who is thirsty, just like what Jesus was offered while he was on the cross.
[1:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: God also gave his people pictures,
[1:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: real-life object lessons.
[1:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the book of Exodus, the Passover Lamb had to be without blemish, and none of its bones were to be broken.
[1:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the book of Leviticus, on the day of Atonement, a sacrifice was to be made so the people's sins could be covered.
[2:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And in the book of Genesis 22, when Abraham was asked to offer his son Isaac, God provided a substitute.
[2:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All of these clues were like bright arrows pointing forward in time.
[2:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They were whispers of a promise that God would send a Savior, a perfect sacrifice, a Lamb, a perfect spotless Lamb, who would take away sin once and for all.
[2:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So as we talk about the crucifixion today, remember, this was not the end of a sad story.
[2:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was the fulfillment of a plan, a promise, a rescue mission that God had been revealing from the very beginning.
[2:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We last left Jesus in front of the crowd before Pontius Pilate.
[2:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After Pontius Pilate had left Jesus, the governors, soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.
[2:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head.
[3:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They put his staff in his right hand, then they knelt in front of him and mocked him.
[3:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hail King of the Jews, they said, they spit on him and took the staff and struck him on the head.
[3:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After they had mocked him, they took the robe off and put his own clothes on, then they let him away to crucify him.
[3:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross for Jesus.
[3:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They came to a place called Galgotha, and there they offered Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall, but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
[3:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots,
[3:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and sitting down they kept watch over him there as he hung on the cross.
[3:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Above his head they placed a handwritten sign of the charge against him, saying this is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
[4:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Those who passed by hurled insults at him shaking their heads and saying,
[4:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: you who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself, come down from the cross if you are the Son of God.
[4:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the same way the chief priest, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
[4:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He saved others, they said, but he can't save himself.
[4:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He's the king of Israel.
[4:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in him.
[4:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He trust in God, let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, I am the son of God.
[4:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the same way, the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
[4:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now, two seekers, let's zoom in on this one incredible moment that happened right there on the cross.
[4:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus wasn't crucified alone.
[4:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There were two criminals nailed to crosses beside him, one on his right and one on his left.
[4:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One of the criminals kept insulting Jesus.
[4:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Aren't you the Messiah?
[5:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Save yourself and us.
[5:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But the other criminal rebuked him saying, don't you fear God?
[5:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We are punished justly, but this man has done nothing wrong.
[5:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Imagine that moment, a guilty man admitting his guilt.
[5:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A dying man recognizing innocence, he could see what others could not.
[5:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Jesus did not deserve the cross.
[5:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Then he turned to Jesus and said something simple and powerful.
[5:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus, he said, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
[5:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He didn't have time to do good deeds, he didn't have time to fix his mistakes, he couldn't undo his past, all he could do in that moment was believe.
[5:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And Jesus answered him with one of the most hope-filled promises in all of scripture.
[5:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He said to the man truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.
[5:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Right there in the middle of pain and blood and darkness, forgiveness was given.
[6:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This man is often called the thief on the cross, or the repentant thief.
[6:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We don't even know his name.
[6:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We don't know his full story, but we know this.
[6:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He trusted Jesus in his final moments, and Jesus welcomed him into his kingdom.
[6:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: From noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land, about three in the afternoon, Jesus cried out from the cross in a loud voice.
[6:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Eli Eli Lamas Sabakhani, which means
[6:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
[6:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When some of those standing there heard this, they said, he's calling Elijah.
[6:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Immediately, one of them ran and got a sponge.
[6:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff and offered it to Jesus to drink.
[6:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The rest of the people said, now leave him alone.
[6:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let's see if Elijah comes to save him.
[6:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: While Jesus was hanging on the cross, their in front of him was his mother Mary, and beside her the disciple John.
[7:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus looked down and he said to his mother, woman, behold your son, and to John the disciple he said, behold, your mother, and from that time on John took Mary into his home.
[7:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Even while bearing the weight of sin Jesus made sure his mother would be cared for, since Jesus was her oldest son, and Joseph is not mentioned, it would have been his responsibility to provide for her.
[7:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus was making sure that even after his death, his mother, Mary, would be taking care of.
[7:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And then Jesus cried out again in a loud voice saying, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit.
[7:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It is finished.
[7:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And when Jesus had said this, he breathed his last.
[7:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At that moment, the curtain of the temple was torn into from top to bottom, the earth's shook, the rock split, and the tomb's broke open.
[8:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When the century and in those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and exclaimed, surely he really was the son of God.
[8:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Many women were there watching from a distance.
[8:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs, among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James and Joseph, and the Mother of Zabadi's sons.
[8:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As evening approach, there came a rich man from Aramathia, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus, going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
[8:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Joseph took the body wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock.
[8:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.
[8:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
[9:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The next day, the one after preparation day, the cheap priest and the Pharisees went to pilot.
[9:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Sir, they said, we remember that while he was still alive, he said after three days, I will rise again.
[9:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So please give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day, otherwise his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead.
[9:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This last deception will be worse than the first.
[9:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So pilot answer, take a guard, go make the tomb as secure as you know how, so they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guards in front of the tomb.
[9:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Dear true seekers, ah, take a deep breath with me.
[9:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What we just heard is one of the most important moments in all of history.
[9:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When Jesus was nailed to the cross, it may have looked like weakness.
[9:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: People mocked him, they said, He saved others, but he can't save himself.
[10:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But here's the truth.
[10:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He could have saved himself.
[10:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He chose not to.
[10:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Why?
[10:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Because he was saving us.
[10:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Remember those Old Testament clues we talked about?
[10:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This is where they come together.
[10:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When darkness covered the land, it wasn't just a strange weather event, it was a sign that something heavy and holy was happening.
[10:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus cried outwards from Psalm 22 words written hundreds of years earlier in the book of Psalms.
[10:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
[10:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He was carrying the weight of sin, our sin on Himself.
[10:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus knew separation from God, so we wouldn't have to.
[10:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus knew what it felt like to be alienated from his father, so that we would never have to know that feeling.
[10:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Sin separates us from God.
[10:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus took that sin on himself, so that we would never have to know separation from God as long as we put our faith in our trust in Jesus.
[11:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He took the weight of our sin upon himself,
[11:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Bible says he gave up his spirit, no one took his life from him, Jesus laid it down.
[11:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And then something incredible happened.
[11:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The curtain of the temple was torn into from top to bottom.
[11:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: True Seekers, this wasn't just any curtain.
[11:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Inside the temple was a special place called the most holy place.
[11:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was separated by a thick veil.
[11:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Only the high priest could go behind it and only once a year to offer a sacrifice for the sins of the people.
[11:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Just like we read about in the Book of Leviticus on the Day of Atonement.
[11:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That curtain was like a giant keybout sign.
[11:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It reminded everyone that sin separates us from a holy God.
[11:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But when Jesus died, the true and perfect sacrifice, the veil that curtain tore from top to bottom.
[12:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Not bottom to top like a person could reach and rip it up.
[12:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: No, from top to bottom.
[12:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: God tore it.
[12:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was his way of saying the way is open.
[12:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Because of Jesus' death, we don't need an animal sacrifice anymore, we don't need a priest to stand between us and God.
[12:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We don't need a curtain to separate us from the holiness of God because Jesus came and He is our holiness.
[12:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We receive His holiness, and so we can now stand before God.
[12:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus became our perfect high priest, and our perfect lamb, just like the Passover Lamb and the Book of Exodus.
[12:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Remember how its bones were not to be broken?
[12:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Jesus fulfilled that too.
[12:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Bible says that Jesus bones were not broken while he was on the cross.
[13:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The earth shook, rock-split, even a Roman centurion, a soldier who had probably seen many crucifixions, looked at Jesus and said, surely, he was the son of God.
[13:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Do you see it two seekers?
[13:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The people who knew the scriptures missed it, the religious leaders mocked him, but a soldier standing at the foot of the cross saw what was really happening.
[13:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And then there's
[13:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It looked final, it looked secure, it looked like the end of the story.
[13:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But remember what we know?
[13:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: God had been whispering this plan since the beginning.
[13:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: From Abraham and Isaac in the Book of Genesis, to the suffering servant in the Book of Isaiah, to the pierced one in the Book of Zachariah, the cross was not an accident.
[13:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The torn veil was not random.
[13:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The sealed tomb was not the end.
[13:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was all part of the rescue.
[13:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And next time, two seekers will see what happens when a stone can't hold back the power of God.
[14:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If you'd like to read today's story in your Bible, you can find it in Matthew chapter 27.
[14:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let me pray with you before we go.
[14:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh dear Jesus, we just come before you right now thanking you for giving your life, for choosing to lay your life down in our place.
[14:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We thank you, Jesus, that you took the punishment that was meant for us.
[14:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: For the wages of sin is death.
[14:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, but Jesus, you took that death upon you, you took our sins upon you, and Jesus were so grateful for now, we can come to you and ask for your forgiveness and know that you offer forgiveness freely, that you wash as clean, wide as snow, and you give us your holiness and exchange for our sin.
[14:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So we can stand before a holy God.
[15:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thank you, Jesus.
[15:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thank you for making away possible for us to once again enter the presence of God, to be able to talk to you and share our heart with you and our thoughts with you, to have a relationship with you, to be close to you, to know you, and to know your love over us, what a beautiful and wonderful gift, and we will not take it for granted.
[15:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Before we go, I do want to give a shout out to Angelin Hepsaba.
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[15:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well thank you both for listening.
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[16:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All right, everyone.
[16:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thank you so much for listening and I look forward to our time together next week.
[16:32] \[UNKNOWN\]: You

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