Today is Friday, March 29th, 2024; Karen's Korner #5090

JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS

"That afternoon, the whole earth was covered with darkness for three hours, from noon until three o'clock.

"About three o'clock, Jesus shouted, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'

"Then Jesus shouted out again, dismissed his spirit, and died.

"And look! The curtain secluding the Holiest Place in the Temple was split apart from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and rocks broke, and tombs opened, and many godly men and women who had died came back to life again. After Jesus' resurrection, they left the cemetery and went into Jerusalem, and appeared to many people there."

` Matthew 17: 45 & 46; 50 - 53 LAB

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Bible Commentary:  "Christ's death was accompanied by at least four miraculous events:

*darkness,
* the splitting of the curtain in the Temple;
*an earthquake,
* dead people rising from their tombs.

"Jesus' death, therefore, could not have gone unnoticed. Everyone knew something significant had happened."

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