Good Friday

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”

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

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. — read the full passage →

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. — read the full passage →

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. — read the full passage →

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, limasabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover. — read the full passage →

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. — read the full passage →

He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. — read the full passage →

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. — read the full passage →

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”

He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.” — read the full passage →

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ — read the full passage →

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. — read the full passage →

But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. — read the full passage →

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near.

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), — read the full passage →

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. — read the full passage →

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: — read the full passage →

“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”, — read the full passage →

So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. — read the full passage →

They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross. — read the full passage →

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” — read the full passage →

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. — read the full passage →

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. — read the full passage →

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — read the full passage →

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

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. — read the full passage →

Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good. — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

Immediately 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. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. — read the full passage →

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. — read the full passage →

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. — read the full passage →

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →