Discovering the Passion

Day 11

Today I walked on holy ground. I followed Jesus from the home of Simon in Bethany to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. I witnessed the passion of the Christ. Conspiracy. Violence. Injustice. Humiliation. Pain. Agony. Death. Burial. That’s what I saw. I saw my salvation. It was not cheap. It was costly. I walked on holy ground and I saw the passion of my Savior. His passion to save Me. These are the words which leapt to life as I followed my Savior in His Passion.

The Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified…plotted to take Jesus… she did it for My burial…thirty pieces of silver…betray Him…My time is at hand…this is My body…this is My blood…I will strike the Shepherd…you will deny Me three times…Gethsemane…My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to death…let this cup pass from Me…My betrayer is at hand…swords and clubs… kiss…seize Him…Caiaphas…false testimony…blasphemy!…spat in His face…beat Him…struck Him…I do not know the Man…rooster crowed… bound Him…Pontius Pilate…Barabbas…let Him be crucified…washed his hands…scourged…crown of thorns…mocked…spat on Him…struck Him…
led Him away…
CROSS…
Golgotha…
crucified…
cast lots …blasphemed… reviled… darkness…
Eli, Eli lama sabachthani!…
sour wine…yielded up His spirit…the earth quaked…
the body…tomb…stone…guard.