Is 52:13-53.12; Ps 22; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; JN 18:1-19:42
“It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. AMEN.
Again we hear the long, difficult narrative of Jesus’s death on a cross. Again we want to squirm away from it, and rush to celebrate what comes next. We need to make meaning, though, of this: Jesus died on a cross. He didn’t choose to die or die this way then, and yet he did. That in no way means he agreed or chose in a suicidal way to die. He kept on keeping on making the cross into an offer, and an act of solidarity.
