AND THEN WHAT?

I find nothing in the Bible to document what happened the day after Jesus was crucified.   I only speculate in my mind.

I imagine daily life went on as usual for some.  Maybe there was talk on the street when people met, "Hey, did you see THAT?"

I always like to think of some others already mentioned earlier in the week.  The Mary who had the devils cast out, the lame man, the blind man, Jarius, those 5000 men who were fed along with the women and children, the graveyard guy who had the devils cast out, the eleven disciples, Pilate, and Mary the mother of Jesus.  There HAD to be grief.  GRIEF.

Then I think about Barabbas and the centurion.  Barabbas, a convicted murdered waiting to die, and now he is free and forgiven.  Did his life change or did he continue on doing wrong?  And the centurion who was at the crucifixion and said, "Surely this was the Son of God."  Did he change for the better in his belief?  These are answers we will never know but I like to think that there was a Jesus difference in their lives as there has been in mine.

On this in-between day, I want to share a couple of scriptures for thought.

From the Old Testament:

"Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

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.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet, we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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."   Isaiah 53:1-5 (KJV)

And from the New Testament:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved."  John 3:16, 17 (KJV)

Never lose hope.  Sunday's coming.

Yes, on this day in-between....consider....