The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 43
This teaching is from Matthew 27:49-28:4
We pick up the story from last week on the evening of Passover. Jesus is on the cross, it's three in the afternoon. Jesus cries out, "it is finished" and dies just as the sacrifice is being offered in the Temple. At that very moment the curtain in the Temple is torn from top to bottom. That curtain separated the Holy Place of the Sanctuary from the Holy of Holies in the rear of the Sanctuary. The curtain was a massive curtain approximately 60' by 30' and about 8 inches thick.
Symbolically - this is a sign that everything has changed. The entry way to…
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