Meditation

Reader,

I chose Luke's description of the crucifixion over that of Matthew as it provides more detail on how Jesus communicates with bystanders and the thieves crucified with him. Luke's version more fully conveys the sense of the intensity of the crowd.

If you want to maintain continuity with the prior passages, you can copy Matthew's version, which I have linked here. Matthew's version provides additional detail on the earthquake that accompanies Jesus' death.

We'll be working through the crucifixion, the death of Jesus and his burial steadily over the next four days through Good Friday.

Today's text is Luke 23:26-31

The Crucifixion of Jesus

²⁶ As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. ²⁷ A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.

²⁸ Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹ For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

³⁰ Then “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”

³¹ For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Encouragement

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed."

Isaiah 53:5

Andy

God's Word In Your Hand

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Andy

God's Word In Your Hand