Passover Days of the Crucifixion of Jesus

Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Christ to the people Ecce homo! (Behold the man!). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Before yom shishi = "sixth day," Friday, was yom chamishi = "fifth day,"

which the Church calls Maundy (L.)  (commandment) Thursday.

Jesus and the first, the twelve, disciples commemorated the Passover (see Exodus 12) meal together. Jesus washed the disciples' feet, hosted the meal, and taught His disciples about the bread and wine meaning His body to be broken and His blood to be shed for the sins of the world.

     Then, the Garden of Gethsemane (Mount of Olives) for prayers. In anguish. "Nevertheless, not my will, but Thine..."

     The High Priest's soldiers came. Jesus was betrayed and arrested.

Inside Jerusalem that night 

Jesus was put on trial before the Jews' High Priest. 

In the High Priest's courtyard, Peter, one of His closest, feared the people and denied Jesus three times before the break of morning.

Friday ( yom shishi = "sixth day")

Inside Jerusalem that morning

     Jesus was put on display before a crowd and mob    

     Roman magistrate Pontius Pilate had final say

     Verdict about Jesus was announced: Death

     Roman soldiers delivered Jesus up

       to be mocked

       Flogged

       Hit

       Ridiculed
      
"Crowned"...with thorns

       

      The soldiers presented a cross for Jesus to get beneath and carry

       Under guard

     

Outside Jerusalem

     Golgotha ("Place of The Skull")

     Jesus was nailed to a cross

     The Cross was raised between two others

     Jesus was crucified

    
There were mockings

     Piercings

     Gambling
     At the foot of the Cross,

         His robe was divided by Roman soldiers who gambled there

     The foot of the Cross was

         a place of sin, sorrow for sin, and mourning by those who loved Him
     Seven times He spoke from the Cross
     He prayed to the Father "forgive them for they know not what they do."

     Last, He said "It is finished"

     At afternoon, the Son of God also Son of Man committed His spirit into the hands of His Father. Not one of His bones was broken. The flesh of His side had been broken by the piercing sword.

     

He breathed His last breath

     Darkness covered the earth

     The sun darkened

     Earth trembled, quaked, and split

     Graves opened
     Bodies of the dead walked forth

     The veil of the temple was ripped in two

     The Holy of Holies was exposed
           

     His Cross was brought down while it was still day, Friday
          (yom shishi)

      His body was removed from the Cross and from Golgotha

      His body was laid in a tomb before evening
     Believers brought cloth wrappings and myrrh...

     Many Jews in those days trusted in God that Jesus, a Jew, born of a Jewish maiden and of the line of David, was the promised Redeemer, the Christ. These included rabbis and other leaders among the Jews. In days to come...Gentiles would believe, too, and accept God's adoption into the Israel of God. God's prophet Isaiah had foretold all these things centuries before.  
    
     Sundown marked the beginning of the next day, the Sabbath (), Saturday.
      And evening marked the next day, known today Sunday or "the Lord's Day" because of the Resurrection of Jesus, when God raised Him bodily from the dead and the grave on the Third Day.

In every part of the world "from every tribe and nation" followers of the risen and living Christ Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords celebrate His life. 
     Halleluia!  
     Christ has died. 
     Christ is risen. 
     Christ will come again!



 
*Source for Jewish days is Introduction to the Jewish Calendar

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