Friday

2,000-something years ago

Friday

Unknown time:

Jesus flogged, handed over to the Jews to be crucified. The mock him, beat him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they say. Then they lead him away to crucify him.

Golgotha, The Place of the Skull

Unknown time:

Jesus is crucified on the cross.

Noon (the sixth hour):

Darkness comes over all the land.

Three o'clock (the ninth hour):

"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Jesus cries out again in a loud voice and gives up his spirit.

The curtain of the temple is torn in two from top to bottom.

The earth shakes and the rocks split. The tombs break open and the bodies of many holy people who had died are raised to life.

"Surely he was the Son of God!"

It is finished.