Good Friday Explained in Scripture

Good Friday has always perplexed me, even after I knew why it was called Good Friday. I asked myself, what is so good about a man dying on a cross? Shouldn't it be called Sad Friday or Bad Friday or Sorrowful Friday? But, alas, Good Friday stuck until today. This holiday commemorates when Jesus Christ come to take on the sins of the world, died on the wooden cross. Here is a scripture to guide you through the historical account.

John 19:17-20: "So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18Here they crucified him, and with him two others-one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

19Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: |sc JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek."

I know in the past businesses would give their employees half of the day off or the whole day in respect for the holiday and in attempts to giving employees time to attend service.

People are sad on this day but they are grateful at the same time because Jesus was a good man who died to save them from their sins.

Here is another verse to explain Jesus, the good man:

Luke 23:39-46: `39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

40But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."

42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.