by MJR | Apr 18, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain 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...
by MJR | Apr 17, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. luke 23:46 From the very beginning of His life as a defenseless infant and during His ministry and finally during the Crucifixion,...
by MJR | Apr 16, 2025 | Genuine Hope
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:28 This afternoon, I finished up a little project I have been working on for the last couple of weeks. It was not without difficulty and the pain of...
by MJR | Apr 14, 2025 | Genuine Hope
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. John 19:28-29 In the passage above, we read...
by MJR | Apr 14, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:45-46 Have you ever...
by MJR | Apr 11, 2025 | Genuine Hope
…Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said...
