Good Friday – Grace Evangelical Society

Was Jesus in the Tomb for 72 Hours?

December 30, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Good Friday, Matthew 12:40, Three days and three nights

John asks, Was Jesus in the tomb for 3 entire days (72 hours,) or just parts of 3 days (Friday evening, the entire Sabbath, and the morning of Sunday)? Is the Apostles Creed correct in saying, “On the third day He arose from the dead…”?  This starts to drive me into all kinds of timeline questions. If

Seeing Good Friday With New Eyes

April 15, 2022 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - cross, Good Friday, Jesus, Psalm 22

If you had witnessed the Romans crucify Jesus, you would not have known the significance of what you saw. You would have seen a Jewish man, among several other men, being beaten, bruised, bloodied, and nailed to some wood by the despised Romans. You would have seen yet another criminal executed for His crimes. You

The Finished Work of Christ Proves His Promise of Life Is True! (John 19:28-31)

April 2, 2021 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Good Friday, proofs of the promise of life

There are at least five other major scenes at the cross before this one. I start here because Jesus had said that He would rise on the third day. Day one started when He died on the cross, which is why we start there. In the Jewish way of thinking, a part of a day