The Crucifixion Analysis

By this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until 3:00. The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last. And so it began, three days of, fear, doubt, and hopelessness, as all the earth and all of heaven waited in anticipation. Around this time, we ways think about the crucifixion and the resurrection, but what about the time in between the two? What about the space between Good Friday and Easter Sunday? During this time, can you imagine what EVERYONE was going through? I mean think about it, you had the Roman soldiers, you had the Pharisees, the Sadducee 's, Mary the mother of Jesus, you had those that yelled crucify him, and last but not least, you had his disciples, who were now scattered. I can’t imagine, what were the Pharisees and Sadducee 's thinking? Were they …show more content…
The day of the crucifixion they were probably thinking, “Why is this happening? This can’t be happening.” The next day they most likely thought, “Jesus said he was coming back. So he will be back right?” Now the second day you can imagine the doubt racing through each and every one of minds. “If Jesus said he would come back, if Jesus said he would conquer the grave, where is he?” What is doubt? Doubt is, “A feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.” Why do we doubt? Why, after everything we have read, everything we have seen and everything we have been taught, do we doubt? We doubt because something’s are just too big. We think sometimes that things are too unbelievable or unreal. Sometimes there are things in life that are just too big to believe. During all this time, many of the disciples, Pharisees, and Romans were rethinking everything they had believed