Just a quick overview. What I share with you this evening is a quick summary of this day we Christians refer to as Good Friday.

Information gleaned from scrolls, Theological writings but also most importantly from the writings of Matthew, Luke and John. 

Jesus has fulfilled the Father’s will and is now down off the Cross. On this Good Friday we have read much about what happen… the arrest of Jesus in the of The Garden of Gethsemane about 2am or so,  dragging Jesus from one official to another until the the Sanhedrin, which was a legislative and judicial body of 23 or 70 elders in ancient Israel got the outcome they wanted. Jesus was convicted, and sentenced to be crucified and taken away by the soldiers. Writings suggest he was beaten severely, humiliated and forced to carry the cross beam of the cross to the place of the crucifixion. A crude time line informs us Jesus was nailed to the cross about 9am Friday morning. He took his last breath about 3pm and was taken down from the cross. Because the Jewish Sabbath was to begin about 6pm, no time was wasted…the body was wrapped in a shroud like material and taken quickly to the tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathea a Biblical figure who buried Jesus after his crucifixion.

I would say that many of us, including myself went through this Friday never thinking about Jesus, the cross and what happened and when on this day.

Thank You Jesus…

jk