April 2, 2010
Good Friday
St. Peter Cathedral
April 2, 2010
Selections
from John 18- 19:38
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Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a
crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple
robe; they came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and
struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again, and said to
them, "See, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I
find no crime in him." So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!"
Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the
sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" They cried out,
"Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them,
"Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no
king but Caesar." Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the
place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew
Gol'gotha.
There they crucified him, and
with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read,
"Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." Many of the Jews read
this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the
city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. The
chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write,
`The King of the Jews,' but, `This man said, I am King of the
Jews.'" Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and
made four parts, one for each soldier; also his tunic. But the
tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom; so they said
to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see
whose it shall be." This was to fulfill the scripture, "They
parted my garments among them,and for my clothing they cast
lots."So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of
Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Mag'dalene.
When Jesus saw his mother, and
the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother,
"Woman, behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple,
"Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her
to his own home. After this Jesus, knowing that all was now
finished, said (to fulfill the scripture), "I thirst." A bowl
full of vinegar stood there; so they put a sponge full of the
vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had
received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished"; and he bowed
his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of
Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on
the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the
Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they
might be taken away.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the
other who had been crucified with him; but when they came to
Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his
legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne
witness -- his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the
truth -- that you also may believe. For these things took place
that the scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of him shall
be broken." And again another scripture says, "They shall look
on him whom they have pierced."
