The Lord is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
Death has no dominion over Him, He is no longer here, He is risen! Hallelujah!
“Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.”
“Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.”
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face. John 19:1-3
“Were you there when they crucified my Lord, were you there? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes, it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”
You call me Teacher and Lord, for so I am, if then I have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. John 13
“Most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is he greater than he who sent him. If you know these things and do them, blessed are you.”
Peter said to Jesus, you shall never wash my feet. But Jesus answered him saying, if I do not wash your feet, you have no part with me. John 13:8
Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only but my hands and my head. Jesus said to him, ‘He who is bathed, needs only to wash his feet but is completely clean, and you are clean, but not all of you.’ For he knew who would betray him, therefore he said, ‘You are not clean.’
“Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.“ Have a blessed Holy Week my brothers and sisters in Christ.
The next day, a great multitude that had come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him and cried out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Who would have thought that they would be praising the King of Israel one day and the next saying, “Crucify Him!” So are we, we will lift up our brothers and sisters one day, and the next, we slander and backbite and pull down.
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. Psalm 3:6
Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
If it had not been for the Lord on my side, tell me, where would I be!
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side when people rose up against us, they would have swallowed us alive. When their anger flared against us, the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us, then the raging waters would have swept us away. Psalm 124
I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and many are boldly attacking me. Psalm 56:2
Contend with my opponents, O Lord; fight against those who battle me. Psalm 35:1 Stand firm, the Lord will fight your battles for you.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings, I will take shelter until the danger has passed. Psalm57:1
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. O Lord, Your loving devotion endures forever, do not abandon the works of Your hands. Psalm 138:8