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Good Friday 2012
Posted by Erick Erickson
Friday, April 6th
As is tradition at RedState, we post this text each Good Friday in lieu
of a Morning Briefing. Some things are more important than news
and politics.
Have a blessed Easter weekend.
Erick
“And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my
garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And
sitting down they watched him there; And set up over his head his
accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. . . . .
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the
ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there,
when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And
straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with
vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
“The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save
him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which
slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and
went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
The Gospel of Matthew 27:35-37, 45-53
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