Faith and Business - Good Friday 4/7/23
We can accompany Christ, our model of servant leadership, on Good Friday - his last day on Earth through the contemplation of the following images. They may help us understand Christ's suffering better and have a better comprehension of his immense love for us.
His martyrdom starts in the Garden of Olives which reveals the bitter sufferings of his soul, itself immersed in inexpressible anguish. It's there, in the garden, where He feels totally abandoned by those He loved. He feels desolation without the slightest consolation from either God or man. Matthew 26, 38 “My soul is sorrowful even unto death.” Then the kiss of betrayal by Judas signals to the mob whom to arrest.
The night passes into Good Friday with the interrogation by the high priests and a trial in Pilate's court.
Pilate sends him to Herod. "Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him?then, arraying him in gorgeous apparel, he sent him back to Pilate." (Luke 23:11)
"Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and clothed him saying "Hail King of the Jews!" and stuck him with their hands." John 19,1-3
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All this after Peter denies even knowing Him after saying he would stick by Him even until death.
Then finally his crucifixion and death.
Less than 24 hours before, on Holy Thursday, Jesus demonstrated to his disciples, during the last supper, how to be a servant leader.?
When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place. He said to them, ”Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.” John 13, 12-17