Almighty Father,
look with mercy on this your family
for which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed
and given up into the hands of sinners
and to suffer death upon the cross;
who is alive and glorified with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eternal God,
in the cross of Jesus
we see the cost of our sin
and the depth of your love:
in humble hope and fear
may we place at his feet
all that we have and all that we are,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIsaiah 52.13 \u2013 53.12\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13<\/sup> See, my servant shall prosper; 53 Who has believed what we have heard? 4<\/sup> Surely he has borne our infirmities 7<\/sup> He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, 10<\/sup> Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. \nJohn 18.1 \u2013 19.42\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 2<\/sup>Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. 3<\/sup>So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4<\/sup>Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, \u2018For whom are you looking?\u2019 5<\/sup>They answered, \u2018Jesus of Nazareth.\u2019 Jesus replied, \u2018I am he.\u2019 Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6<\/sup>When Jesus said to them, \u2018I am he\u2019, they stepped back and fell to the ground. 7<\/sup>Again he asked them, \u2018For whom are you looking?\u2019 And they said, \u2018Jesus of Nazareth.\u20198<\/sup>Jesus answered, \u2018I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go.\u2019 9<\/sup>This was to fulfil the word that he had spoken, \u2018I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me.\u2019 10<\/sup>Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest\u2019s slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave\u2019s name was Malchus. 11<\/sup>Jesus said to Peter, \u2018Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12<\/sup>So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him.\n13<\/sup>First they took him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.\n14<\/sup>Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one person die for the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15<\/sup>Simon\n Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Since that disciple was \nknown to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the \nhigh priest,\n16<\/sup>but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So \nthe other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke to\n the woman who guarded the gate, and brought Peter in.\n17<\/sup>The woman said to Peter, \u2018You are not also one of this man\u2019s disciples, are you?\u2019 He said, \u2018I am not.\u2019\n18<\/sup>Now the slaves and the police had made a \ncharcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing round it and \nwarming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming \nhimself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19<\/sup>Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.\n20<\/sup>Jesus answered, \u2018I have spoken openly to the \nworld; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all \nthe Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.\n21<\/sup>Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said to them; they know what I said.\u2019\n22<\/sup>When he had said this, one of the police \nstanding nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, \u2018Is that how you \nanswer the high priest?\u2019\n23<\/sup>Jesus answered, \u2018If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?\u2019\n24<\/sup>Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 25<\/sup>Now\n Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, \u2018You are \nnot also one of his disciples, are you?\u2019 He denied it and said, \u2018I am \nnot.\u2019\n26<\/sup>One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative\n of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, \u2018Did I not see you in \nthe garden with him?\u2019\n27<\/sup>Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 28<\/sup>Then\n they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate\u2019s headquarters. It was early in\n the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to \navoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.\n29<\/sup>So Pilate went out to them and said, \u2018What accusation do you bring against this man?\u2019\n30<\/sup>They answered, \u2018If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.\u2019\n31<\/sup>Pilate said to them, \u2018Take him yourselves and \njudge him according to your law.\u2019 The Jews replied, \u2018We are not \npermitted to put anyone to death.\u2019\n32<\/sup>(This was to fulfil what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.)\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 33<\/sup>Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, \u2018Are you the King of the Jews?\u2019\n34<\/sup>Jesus answered, \u2018Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?\u2019\n35<\/sup>Pilate replied, \u2018I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?\u2019\n36<\/sup>Jesus answered, \u2018My kingdom is not from this \nworld. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be \nfighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my\n kingdom is not from here.\u2019\n37<\/sup>Pilate asked him, \u2018So you are a king?\u2019 Jesus \nanswered, \u2018You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I\n came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to \nthe truth listens to my voice.\u2019\n38<\/sup>Pilate asked him, \u2018What is truth?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, \u2018I find no case against him.\n39<\/sup>But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?\u2019\n40<\/sup>They shouted in reply, \u2018Not this man, but Barabbas!\u2019 Now Barabbas was a bandit.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2<\/sup>And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. 3<\/sup>They kept coming up to him, saying, \u2018Hail, King of the Jews!\u2019 and striking him on the face. 4<\/sup>Pilate went out again and said to them, \u2018Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.\u2019 5<\/sup>So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, \u2018Here is the man!\u2019 6<\/sup>When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, \u2018Crucify him! Crucify him!\u2019 Pilate said to them, \u2018Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.\u2019 7<\/sup>The Jews answered him, \u2018We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 8<\/sup>Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever.\n9<\/sup>He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, \u2018Where are you from?\u2019 But Jesus gave him no answer.\n10<\/sup>Pilate therefore said to him, \u2018Do you refuse to \nspeak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power\n to crucify you?\u2019\n11<\/sup>Jesus answered him, \u2018You would have no power \nover me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who \nhanded me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.\u2019\n12<\/sup>From then on Pilate tried to release him, but \nthe Jews cried out, \u2018If you release this man, you are no friend of the \nemperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the \nemperor.\u2019\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13<\/sup>When Pilate heard these words, he \nbrought Jesus outside and sat on the judge\u2019s bench at a place called The\n Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha.\n14<\/sup>Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, \u2018Here is your King!\u2019\n15<\/sup>They cried out, \u2018Away with him! Away with him! \nCrucify him!\u2019 Pilate asked them, \u2018Shall I crucify your King?\u2019 The chief \npriests answered, \u2018We have no king but the emperor.\u2019\n16<\/sup>Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So they took Jesus;\n17<\/sup>and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.\n18<\/sup>There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them.\n19<\/sup>Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, \u2018Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.\u2019\n20<\/sup>Many of the Jews read this inscription, because \nthe place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was \nwritten in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.\n21<\/sup>Then the chief priests of the Jews said to \nPilate, \u2018Do not write, \u201cThe King of the Jews\u201d, but, \u201cThis man said, I am\n King of the Jews.\u201d \u2019\n22<\/sup>Pilate answered, \u2018What I have written I have written.\u2019\n23<\/sup>When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took\n his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. \nThey also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece\n from the top.\n24<\/sup>So they said to one another, \u2018Let us not tear \nit, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.\u2019 This was to fulfil \nwhat the scripture says, Meanwhile,\n standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother\u2019s \nsister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.\n26<\/sup>When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, \u2018Woman, here is your son.\u2019\n27<\/sup>Then he said to the disciple, \u2018Here is your mother.\u2019 And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 28<\/sup>After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfil the scripture), \u2018I am thirsty.\u2019\n29<\/sup>A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So \nthey put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to \nhis mouth.\n30<\/sup>When Jesus had received the wine, he said, \u2018It is finished.\u2019 Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 31<\/sup>Since\n it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on\n the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day\n of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the \ncrucified men broken and the bodies removed.\n32<\/sup>Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.\n33<\/sup>But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.\n34<\/sup>Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.\n35<\/sup>(He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth.)\n36<\/sup>These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, \u2018None of his bones shall be broken.\u2019\n37<\/sup>And again another passage of scripture says, \u2018They will look on the one whom they have pierced.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n 38<\/sup>After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body. 39<\/sup>Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. 40<\/sup>They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. 41<\/sup>Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. 42<\/sup>And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All collects and readings appointed for this day as well as the orders of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer can be found at http:\/\/almanac.oremus.org\/2020-04-10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday 10th March – Good Friday Collect Almighty Father,look with mercy on this your familyfor which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed and given up into the hands of sinners and to suffer death upon the cross;who is alive and glorified with you and the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever. Additional Collect … <\/p>\n
he shall be exalted and lifted up,
and shall be very high.\n
14<\/sup> Just as there were many who were astonished at him
\u2014so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of mortals\u2014\n
15<\/sup> so he shall startle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2<\/sup> For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3<\/sup> He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.
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and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.\n
5<\/sup> But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.\n
6<\/sup> All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.\n
8<\/sup> By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.\n
9<\/sup> They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you make his life an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
11<\/sup> Out of his anguish he shall see light;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12<\/sup> Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u2018They divided my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots.\u2019\n
25<\/sup>And that is what the soldiers did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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