Why is it Good Friday? Humor in Jesus' mind?: Good Friday (April 19th, 2019)

Listen to the homily here.

Notes:

Good Friday

“For all my foes I am an object of reproach,
a laughingstock to my neighbors…”

(Jesus): I AM: When he said to them, "I AM," they turned away and fell to the ground.  "I have spoken publicly to the world…”

(Pontus Pilate) “What is truth?” 

(Soldiers): Crown of thorns, purple vestment… “Hail, King of the Jews!”

(Pontus Pilate): “Behold, the man!...Behold your king!”

(Chief Priests): “We have no king but Caesar!”

(Pontus Pilate): “"Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews."

Isaiah: (fourth servant’s song): 

·      “Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,our sufferings that he endured,while we thought of him as stricken,as one smitten by God and afflicted.But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins;upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole,by his stripes we were healed.”

·      “We had all gone astray like sheep…”

o   Why do we do that today?

·      “…he surrendered himself to death”

Hebrews:

·      “For we do not have a high priestwho is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way,yet without sin.So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.”