Jesus Clothes at the Foot of the Cross

I have no idea why this morning I starting thinking about fabric and thought of Jesus garment being gambled for at the foot of the cross. All 4 gospels tell the tale of a piece of fabric “and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece (literally- from the upper part through the whole). So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “They Divided My Outer Garments Among Them, And For My Clothing They Cast Lots.”” John 19:23b-24

Jesus only owned the clothes on his back, and they were taken from him. The outer garments were made into 4 parts, one for each of the 4 soldiers. It sounds like they tore them up since this one they did not want to tear. Not much to say for the fashion of the Lord, then, if all he wore was not worth keeping in one piece. I have no idea and have never done a study on why the soldiers would have wanted rags...was this some sort of money-making scheme, to sell parts of Jesus clothes to those who would want a souvenier of the day of his death, or were rags valuable in that day because cloth was expensive? Would they hang the piece up as a souvenier themselves of participating the this once-in-a- lifetime event? There had to be a reason. But the tunic was special. It was one piece, woven from top to bottom. No seams, no cuts, no hems. It was unique and therefore worth keeping in tact.

Why it this one piece of fabric described in scripture? Who made this thing? Why was it valuable?

My friend says that all of scripture points to Jesus...so let's go down that road with this tunic.

It was ONE. There were no cuts...this was woven as one piece, not one piece that had been cut out into more pieces and sewn back together. It was a unified piece. The Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are ONE GOD. Any part of what Jesus did was done with the Father and through the Spirit. They have one mind, one soul, one purpose and one plan. It was a symbol of the unity of the Godhead clothing Him daily.

It had no seams. There was no other thread holding it together. No need for buttons and button holes, clasps, hooks, or pins. In Him, Col. 1:15-17 tells us, all things were made for Him and in Him “all things hold together.” He is the one that holds the atoms together to hold the molecules together to hold the elements together to hold the cells together to hold all created things together. Gravity holds all things in place...so guess what the force of gravity is? It's Jesus! It can't be seen, but it is there. Nothing holds Jesus together...He holds it. There is no need for anything to hold Jesus garments together...He is the holder.

There is no hem. There is no unraveling of His plan. The lower edges were cast off and did not need to be turned up and sewn down to prevent it from coming apart. When it seemed that Jesus life was coming apart at the ends, it was not...it was the fulfillment of the plan. It came to a planned end, and was the fulfillment of the purpose. It was woven to the point of the planned end, and then was finished perfectly. Satan could not unravel the purpose of Christ at that point...Jesus went and gathered the dead in Him together, and is awaiting the arrival of the rest of His people. Redemption had been made, just as the plan had been made.

The Word says that all scripture was fulfilled in the resurrection of Christ, and the symbolism of the garment runs far deeper than my finite mind can know, but the garment was not torn because no force, no matter how evil, cold-hearted, money-grubbing, or death-giving, can ever rend assunder the plans and purposes of God. The work of Jesus is recognized as a valuable thing even by the enemies of Christ and they seek for it for all the wrong reasons. But they still keep it whole, as the garment of God that clothed Christ in righteousness can never be wrought assunder.