Nisan 14, Thursday At That Time

[Walter and Deborah]

Saturday 4-16-22 7th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Abib/Nisan 14, 5782 28th. Spring Day

From Our Study: Nisan 14, Thursday At that time,
Jesus crucified at 9:am, On Cross at "6th. hr. Noon darkness covers land, Jesus dies at 3pm as Passover lambs are being slaid.

Matthew 27:31 Context: When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. (biblehub.com)

31 After they had mocked Him, they took the scarlet robe off Him and put His own garments back on Him, and led Him away to crucify Him.. 32 As they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear His cross.. The Crucifixion 33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull, 34 they gave Him wine to drink mixed with ...

Mark 15:20 Context: When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. (biblehub.com)

20 After they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him. 21 They pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.. The Crucifixion 22 Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.


Luke 23:26 Context: When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus. (biblehub.com)

Simon Bears the Cross 26 When they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.. 27 And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him. 28 But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

John 19:16 Context: So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. (biblehub.com)

The Crucifixion 16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.. 17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. 18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. 19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.

Jesus in grave 1st. partial day, women buy and prepare spices.
Mark 16:1, Luke 23:56

Not So
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Read: Luke 23:49–56 | Bible in a Year: 1 Samuel 30–31; Luke 13:23–35
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All those who knew him . . . stood at a distance, watching these things. Luke 23:49

“I wanted somehow to make it not so,” lamented the man, eulogizing a friend who died young. His words gave poignancy to humanity’s ageless heart-cry. Death stuns and scars us all. We ache to undo what can’t be undone.

The longing to “make it not so” might well describe how Jesus’ followers felt after His death. The Gospels say little about those awful hours, but they do record the actions of a few faithful friends.

Joseph, a religious leader who secretly believed in Jesus (see John 19:38), suddenly found the courage to ask Pilate for Jesus’ body (Luke 23:52). Ponder for a moment what it would take to remove a body from a grisly crucifixion and tenderly prepare it for burial (v. 53). Consider too the devotion and bravery of the women who stayed with Jesus every step of the way, even to the tomb (v. 55).

These followers weren’t anticipating a resurrection; they were coming to terms with grief. The chapter ends without hope, merely a somber, “Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes [to embalm Jesus’ body]. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment” (v. 56).

Little did they know the Sabbath intermission was setting the stage for history’s most dramatic scene. Jesus was about to do the unimaginable. He would make death itself “not so.”

Where do you turn for comfort when the worst happens? How do you live as though the resurrection is real?

Today, Father, I pause to remember how it must have been that day between Your Son’s crucifixion and His resurrection. I’m so grateful that He’s reversed sin’s curse for me.

Learn more about the resurrection of Jesus.

INSIGHT
The Romans normally left the decaying bodies of crucified criminals, especially those convicted of treason, on their crosses for birds to devour as a warning that this same fate awaited those who dared to rebel against Rome. Because it was a “special Sabbath” in that it was also the day of Passover/Unleavened Bread, the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the crucified bodies taken down (John 19:31). Corpses left hanging overnight would desecrate the land (Deuteronomy 21:22–23). Family members weren’t permitted to give their deceased a decent burial. Instead, the bodies were unceremoniously and unbecomingly dumped in a graveyard outside the city. Corpses left unburied as food for carrion birds and wild animals was the severest form of contempt and humiliation (Psalm 79:2–4). Because Joseph of Arimathea intervened and asked Pilate for Jesus’ body, He was buried in Joseph’s “own new tomb” (Matthew 27:60), an unused rich man’s tomb, fulfilling Isaiah 53:9.

By Tim Gustafson|April 16th, 2022

Grief Luke 23:49-56,

Love, Walter and Debbie