04/07/2023
Join us tonight for Good Friday at 7:00 p.m. !
Good Friday
The last day of Jesus’ life on earth before His resurrection.
He is betrayed by Judas, as predicted, and denied by Peter, as predicted.
His disciples scatter.
He is arrested and placed on trial falsely. He is condemned, beaten, mocked, and required to carry His own cross to the place where He is crucified and dies.
The soldiers twist together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. Though he is offered something to dull the physical pain, Jesus refuses. He chooses to face the pain of death head on. They strip Him of His clothes and cast lots for them, fulfilling another prophecy.
Two prisoners are crucified alongside Jesus. One mocks Him, but the other said, “‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ Jesus answers him, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise’” (Luke 23:39-43).
Amidst the most cruel, unfair, unjust, and painful death a human body could endure, Jesus chooses to respond in grace to the criminal beside Him and care for His mother and best friend.
“When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother’” (John 19:25-27). At noon, Jesus cries out “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit,” and dies.
“It was at about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.” -Luke 23:44-46
Jesus is taken down from the cross, wrapped in linens, and placed in a tomb.
