Good Friday Message - God Is Love

After a brutal night
begun on capture, then
purgerous inquisition,
Jesus was scourged,
marched wounded
under his cross
up Jerusalem's
stony steeps.

His visage marred,
spit upon by haters,
bearing broken body,
wounded and despised,
hailed as Lord a week
before, mercilessly led
up Golgotha' s
weeping Hill.

Crucified mid-morning,
crowned in thorns,
jered and mocked,
hung creation's Savior
forsaken, forgiving,
dying mid-afternoon,
wept by mom, and
disciples forlorn.

Jesus dead body
was taken down,
cleansed, dressed,

and laid in another's
cold tomb three days,

until Sunday morning
met an atoning dawn
and empty tomb.

- r.e. slater
April 12, 2020
*Isaiah 52.13-53.12

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ISAIAH 52.13 - 53.12

The Exalted Servant

13 Behold, My servant will prosper,

He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

14 Just as many were astonished at you, My people,

So His appearance was marred more than any man

And His form more than the sons of men.

15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations,

Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;

For what had not been told them they will see,

And what they had not heard they will understand.

The Suffering Servant

53 Who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

3 He was despised and forsaken of men,

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,

And our sorrows He carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But He was pierced through

for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

And by His scourging we are healed.

6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all

To fall on Him.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who considered

That He was cut off out of the land of the [s]living

For the transgression of my people,

to whom the stroke was due?

9 His grave was assigned with wicked men,

Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

10 But the Lord was pleased

To crush Him, putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,

He will see His offspring,

He will prolong His days,

And the good pleasure of the Lord

will prosper in His hand.

11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,

He will see it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, will justify the many,

As He will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,

And He will divide the booty with the strong;

Because He poured out Himself to death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.

 

MARK 15

1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests

with the elders and scribes, and the whole council,

held a consultation, and bound Jesus,

and carried him away,

and delivered him up to Pilate.

2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

And he answering saith unto him, Thou sayest.

3 And the chief priests accused him of many things.

4 And Pilate again asked him, saying, Answerest thou nothing?

behold how many things they accuse thee of.

5 But Jesus no more answered anything; insomuch that Pilate marvelled.

6 Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner,

whom they asked of him.

7 And there was one called Barabbas, [lying] bound with them that had

made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

8 And the multitude went up and began to ask him

[to do] as he was wont to do unto them.

9 And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I

release unto you the King of the Jews?

10 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

11 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude,

that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

12 And Pilate again answered and said unto them,

What then shall I do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

13 And they cried out again, Crucify him.

14 And Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done?

But they cried out exceedingly, Crucify him.

15 And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude,

released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, 

hen he had scourged him, to be crucified.

16 And the soldiers led him away within the court,

which is the Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.

17 And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown of thorns,

they put it on him;

18 and they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!

19 And they smote his head with a reed, and spat upon him,

and bowing their knees worshipped him.

20 And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the purple,

and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to crucify him.

21 And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene,

coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, 

to go [with them], that he might bear his cross.

22 And they brought him unto the place Golgotha,

which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.

23 And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.

24 And they crucify him, and part his garments among them, 

casting lots upon them, what each should take.

25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

26 And the superscription of his accusation

 was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

27 And with him they crucify two robbers;

one on his right hand, and one on his left.

28 [And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith,

 And he was reckoned with transgressors.]

29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,

and saying, Ha! Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest 

it in three days,

30 save thyself, and come down from the cross.

31 In like manner also the chief priests mocking [him] among themselves

with the scribes said, He saved others; himself he cannot save.

32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from 

the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were

crucified with him reproached him.

33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness

over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted,

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said,

Behold, he calleth Elijah.

36 And one ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed,

and gave him to drink, saying, Let be; let us see whether

Elijah cometh to take him down.

37 And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

38 And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.

39 And when the centurion, who stood by over

against him, saw that he so gave up the ghost, he said,

Truly this man was the Son of God.

40 And there were also women beholding from afar: among whom

[were] both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James

the less and of Joses, and Salome;

41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;

and many other women that came up with him unto Jerusalem.

42 And when even was now come, because it was the Preparation,

that is, the day before the sabbath,

43 there came Joseph of Arimathaea, a councillor of honorable estate, 

who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God; and he boldly

went in unto Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him 

the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

45 And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

46 And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him

in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out

of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses

beheld where he was laid.

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