CRUCIFIED

The Friday before Easter, or Good Friday as we know it, symbolizes the day Jesus was crucified.

The People had wanted Barabbas and chosen to crucify Jesus instead.  He was scourged (whipped), mocked (was dressed in a scarlet robe), wore a crown of thorns, spit upon, and so many more horrible degrading acts.  Kind of takes bullying to a new level, doesn't it?

A Cyrene names Simon was compelled to carry the cross of Jesus.  They came to Golgatha, meaning the place of a skull, and he was nailed to the cross.  Jesus was the middle man on the cross, having a thief on each side of him.  

About the sixth hour, there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.  The sun was darkened and the veil of the temple rent from top to bottom,  and there were earthquakes.  Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit," and thus, he gave up the ghost.  (Luke 23:46)

A man named Joseph of Arimathaea went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.  He wrapped the body in linen and laid it in a brand new tomb hewn in stone.  

There is so much more that could be told of this sad, dark day but I will leave that for you to read in your Bible on your own.  I never can think of what my Lord endured without feeling pain and sorrow for what he went through.

One of my favorite scriptures from the Old Testament comes from Isaiah 53:3,5,7 and goes like this:

"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth."

So God's only begotten Son went to the cross to die for my sins.  God turned his back on him for that time.  

But remember and consider.......a lot can happen in three days......