Reading: John 20.11-18 It wasn’t unexpected. She would surely not recognise me. She would almost certainly think I was someone else. And anyway, the situation would not lend itself to understanding. Having come to the tomb to grieve, what a confusion it must have been to find the body she was looking for was not […]
Voices of Holy Week: Joseph of Arimathea
Reading: Luke 23.50-56 You never expect to bury your friends. Who’d have thought that the day would end up like this? To find yourself making arrangements to bury a friend who only last night was celebrating the festival with his followers. What a shocking day. The trial had been a shambles. He shouldn’t have been […]
Voices of Holy Week: Peter
Reading: Luke 22.54-62 What would you do? I mean, who would behave any differently? Put in that position everyone would have been the same, right? He’d told me that I’d do it too. But I didn’t believe him. I said I’d be there for him. I said I’d go to prison and even death. But […]
Voices of Holy Week: Jesus
Bible Reading: Luke 19.41-44 I couldn’t even hold back the tears today. There was just too much at stake as I looked out over the city. It wasn’t enough just to sit back and look. I had become so overwhelmed there was no other response. The city of Jerusalem was becoming somewhere that I was […]
Voices of Holy Week: Scribes and Pharisees
Bible Reading: Luke 19.45-20.8 We have become all quite familiar with how things operate, and even though we might not be entirely comfortable with it all, we put up with it. It might not be the best example of the way God’s people should be, but it keeps the books balanced and seems to get […]