Right from our Sunday school teaching we know that Jesus Christ was crufied between two thieves, one from the left side and the other one from the right side, but have you ever considered why in the middle? Well today I want to share the reason behind Christ being crucified centrally between two sinners.
We know from the bible that before God all sins are equal, no small sin or great sin but all are equal. Yet we know Jesus was sinless yet he was crucified. His sinless life didn’t not exempt from being crucified with sinners.
So why two sinnners? And why In the middle?
Jesus Christ come into this world with only one purpose to restore the world back to God; we know this because in the garden of Eden Adam and Eve broke the command of God which had given them by restricting them from eating fruits from the tree of knowledge of good and evil yet they disobeyed and ate it, this led man according to some Jewish tradition to see two powers good and evil, bad and good, up and down etc instead of one which had previously ruled them before consuming that fruit,
So Jesus was crusified in the middle to show that he is the only way to heaven. Infact the only bridge to meet God; no wonder in john 14:6 he said ‘I am the way….’
These two thieves symbolised the nature of people whom he come to save. Some accepting him through believe as their Lord and savior and others rejecting him as their Lord and savior by mocking, critising and even redicuring him.
