“Aren’t you the Messiah?"

In Luke 23...we read about Jesus' trial, crucifixtion, death and burial... all within this one chapter.

With all this valuable content....It was the theif's question to Jesus that really spoke to me.  His question to Jesus is one we must all answer in our lifetime....paraphrased He asks Jesus if He is the Messiah. 

Jesus does not answer this theif in the text....but everyone living at that time.... got the answer. 

Have you ever heard of the sun stop shining when someone dies? I haven't. When Jesus died....the sun stopped shining for three hours in the middle of the day. This was a God thing. (the longest solar ecilpse ever recorderd is around 7 minutes)  But most of the Jews of the time were familiar with the prophesy from Amos 8:9 , “In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight."

Jesus was the Messiah.  This was the long awaited "Day of the Lord." People witnessing this act of God...knew in this moment that God had answered the theif.