Today is Friday
Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives…He knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”…And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground… Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him…Having arrested Him, they led Him and brought Him into the high priest’s house… Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and beat Him. And having blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face and asked Him, saying, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck You?” And many other things they blasphemously spoke against Him…Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe…Then Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, said to them, “…I have found no fault in this Man…and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him. I will therefore chastise Him and release Him”…They shouted, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”…they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed. So Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they requested…Now as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus…There were also two others, criminals, led with Him to be put to death. And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. And the people stood looking on…Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.'” Having said this, He breathed His last…
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