Convinced...

The questions surrounding Jesus’ claims that He was indeed the Messiah was echoing through Jerusalem’s corridors. We look back on that day through the scope of scripture and see Jesus quite clearly. But to have boots on the ground in that day, it was a murky question. In fact, there were far more people, influential people even, suggesting He was a fraud than there were voices saying He was the promised one.
“The captain of the guard and those with him, when they saw the earthquake and everything else that was happening, were scared to death. They said, ‘this has to be the Son of God.” ~Mt. 27:54
The argument waged loudly about whether or not Jesus was the Son of God. When Pilate put the sign on the cross that Jesus was the king of the Jews, the leaders made haste to ask him to change it to, ‘he claimed he was the king of the Jews’. But Pilate wouldn’t. The question was on everyone’s mind that day. Even the Roman guards were talking about it. At first it was in jest and mockery, but when the sky went black in the middle of the day by something different than a storm cloud, and the earthquake struck at the moment of Jesus death, their perspective changed. In fact, a level of soberness came across the toughest and most cynical in the crowd. Even the captain declared Him to be the Messiah. It’s always been very interesting to me how a person locked in this worlds perspectives comes to grasp Jesus as the Savior of the World and become CONVINCED! ~Verlon