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March 29 - Mark 15 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is shown here. It is Friday.
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  It is Friday. You have made it to the end of
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  another week. And for most of us, today is not
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  a day where we rush off to work. Today is a day where we might
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  gather with our communities, come together to commemorate
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  this day, worship together in amazement and awe, and what our
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  God has done for us today. Today is Good Friday.
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  Good because of what God has done for us today.
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  Good, because it's only because of today that we can come before
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  our God. We do not have to read the book
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  of Exodus and Leviticus to work out how we need to be wholly
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  before our God. We just show up.
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  We just show up because Jesus has done all that work for us
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  and today is the day we read all about what work that is.
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  It is a brutal reading. It is hard, but it is testament
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  of how much we are loved and what our God is willing to go
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  through for us, their friends. With a heavy hearts, we read
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  this story recorded in Mark chapter 15.
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  Very early in the morning, the leading priests, the elders and
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  the teachers of religious law, the entire High Council, met to
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  discuss their next step. They bound Jesus, led him away
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  and took him to pilot the Roman governor.
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  Pilot asked. Jesus, are you the King of the
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  Jews? Jesus replied.
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  You have said it. Then the leading priests kept
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  accusing him of many crimes and Pilot asked him, Aren't you
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  going to answer them? What about all these charges
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  they are bringing against you? But Jesus said nothing much to
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  pilots surprise. Now it was the Governor's custom
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  each year during the Passover celebration to release 1
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  prisoner, anyone the people requested.
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  One of the prisoners at that time was Barabbas, A
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  revolutionary who had committed murder in an uprising.
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  The crowd went to Pilot and asked him to release a prisoner,
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  as usual. Would you like me to release to
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  you this King of the Jews? Pilot asked for he realised by
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  now that the leading priests had arrested Jesus out of envy.
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  But at this point, the leading priests stirred up the crowd to
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  demand the release of Barabbas instead of Jesus.
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  Pilot asked them Then what should I do with this man you
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  call the King of the Jews? They shouted back.
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  Crucify him. Why?
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  Pilot demanded. What crime has he committed?
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  But the mob roared even louder. Crucify him said.
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  To pacify the crowd, Pilot released Barabbas to them.
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  He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead tipped whip, then turned
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  him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.
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  The soldiers took Jesus into the courtyard of the governor's
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  headquarters, called Pretorium, and called out the entire
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  regiment. They dressed him in a purple
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  robe, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it
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  on his head. Then they saluted him and
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  taunted Hail King of the Jews, and they struck him on the head
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  with the raid stick, spit on him, and dropped to their knees
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  and mock worship. When they were finally tired of
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  mocking him, they took off the purple robe and put his own
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  clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be
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  crucified. A passerby named Simon, who is
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  from Cyrene, was coming in from the countryside just then and
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  the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus Cross.
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  Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus, and they
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  brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which means place of
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  the skull. They offered him wine, drugged
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  with MUR, but he refused it. Then the soldiers nailed him to
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  the cross. They divided his clothes and
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  threw dice to decide who would get each piece.
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  It was 9:00 in the morning when they crucified him, a sign
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  announce the charge against him. It read The King of the Jews.
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  Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his
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  right and one on his left. The people passing by shouted
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  abuse, shaking their heads in mockery.
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  Huh. Look at you now, they yelled at
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  him. You said you were going to
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  destroy the temple and rebuild them three days.
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  Well then save yourself and come down from the cross.
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  The leading priests and teachers of religious law also mocked
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  Jesus. He saved others.
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  They scoffed. Pit, he can't save himself.
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  Let this Messiah, this King of Israel, come down from the cross
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  so he can see it and believe him.
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  Even the men who were crucified with Jesus ridiculed him.
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  At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until 3:00.
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  Then at 3:00, Jesus called out with a loud voice.
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  Eloy Eloy, Lema Sabachthani. Which means, my God, my God, why
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  have you abandoned me? Some of the bystanders
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  misunderstood and thought it was calling for the prophet Elijah.
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  One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding
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  it up to him on a Reed stick so he could drink.
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  White, He said. Let's see whether Elijah comes
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  to take him down. Then Jesus uttered another loud
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  cry and breathed his last, and the curtain in the sanctuary of
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  the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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  When the Roman officer who stood facing him saw how he had died,
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  he exclaimed. This man truly was the Son of
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  God. Some women were there, watching
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  from a distance, including Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of
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  James the Younger, and of Joseph and Salome.
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  They had been followers of Jesus and had cared for him while he
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  was in Galilee. Many other women who had come
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  with him to Jerusalem were also there.
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  This all happened on Friday, the day of preparation, the day
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  before the Sabbath. As evening approached, Joseph of
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  Arimathea took a risk and went to Pilot and asked for Jesus's
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  body. Joseph was an honoured member of
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  the High Council and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God
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  to come. Pilot couldn't believe that
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  Jesus was already dead, so he called for the Roman officer and
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  asked if he had died. Yet the officer confirmed that
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  Jesus was dead, so Pilot told Joseph he could have the body.
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  Joseph bought a long sheet of linen cloth, then took Jesus
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  body down from the cross, wrapped it in the cloth and laid
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  it in a tomb that he had carved out of the rock.
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  Then he rolled a stone in front of the entrance, Mary Magdalene
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  and Mary the mother of Joseph. So where Jesus's body was laid,
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  Lord, in this time of silence, ahead we just come before you,
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  and aware of all you have done for us,
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  Thank you for your sacrifice. We pray this in your precious
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  Name Jesus. Amen.