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SUMMARY:Good Friday
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DESCRIPTION:9.30am Good Friday reflections available in all three churches
 .\n10am-12noon Good Friday Easter Gardens prepared in churches (to be deco
 rated on Saturday) 12-2pm Good Friday Watch service at Everton followed by
 ….\n2pm Eucharist from reserve Sacrament at Everton.\nAfter Jesus had sp
 oken 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.
  Now Judas\, who betrayed him\, also knew the place\, because Jesus often 
 met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers to
 gether with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees\, and they cam
 e there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus\, knowing all th
 at was to happen to him\, came forward and asked them\, ‘For whom are yo
 u looking?’ They answered\, ‘Jesus of Nazareth.’ Jesus replied\, ‘
 I am he.’ Judas\, who betrayed him\, was standing with them. When Jesus 
 said to them\, ‘I am he’\, they stepped back and fell to the ground. A
 gain he asked them\, ‘For whom are you looking?’ And they said\, ‘Je
 sus of Nazareth.’ Jesus answered\, ‘I told you that I am he. So if you
  are looking for me\, let these men go.’ This was to fulfil the word tha
 t he had spoken\, ‘I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me
 .’ Then Simon Peter\, who had a sword\, drew it\, struck the high priest
 ’s slave\, and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus. Je
 sus said to Peter\, ‘Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to dr
 ink the cup that the Father has given me?’ So the soldiers\, their offic
 er\, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him. First they took h
 im to Annas\, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas\, the high priest that
  year. Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to
  have one person die for the people. 
\nChris
\nSimon Peter and anothe
 r disciple followed Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high pries
 t\, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest\, but Peter w
 as standing outside at the gate. So the other disciple\, who was known to 
 the high priest\, went out\, spoke to the woman who guarded the gate\, and
  brought Peter in. The woman said to Peter\, ‘You are not also one of th
 is man’s disciples\, are you?’ He said\, ‘I am not.’ Now the slave
 s and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold\, and they w
 ere standing round it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with
  them and warming himself. Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his
  disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered\, ‘I have spoken openl
 y to the world\; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple\, wh
 ere all the Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. Why do you 
 ask me? Ask those who heard what I said to them\; they know what I said.
 ’ When he had said this\, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus
  on the face\, saying\, ‘Is that how you answer the high priest?’ Jesu
 s answered\, ‘If I have spoken wrongly\, testify to the wrong. But if I 
 have spoken rightly\, why do you strike me?’ Then Annas sent him bound t
 o Caiaphas the high priest. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himse
 lf. They asked him\, ‘You are not also one of his disciples\, are you?
 ’ He denied it and said\, ‘I am not.’ One of the slaves of the high 
 priest\, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off\, asked\, ‘Di
 d I not see you in the garden with him?’ Again Peter denied it\, and at 
 that moment the cock crowed.\n Hilary
\nThen they took Jesus from Caiaph
 as to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselve
 s did not enter the headquarters\, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to
  be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said\, ‘Wha
 t accusation do you bring against this man?’ They answered\, ‘If this 
 man were not a criminal\, we would not have handed him over to you.’ Pil
 ate said to them\, ‘Take him yourselves and judge him according to your 
 law.’ The Jews replied\, ‘We are not permitted to put anyone to death.
 ’ (This was to fulfil what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of 
 death he was to die.) Then Pilate entered the headquarters again\, summone
 d Jesus\, and asked him\, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ Jesus answer
 ed\, ‘Do you ask this on your own\, or did others tell you about me?’ 
 Pilate replied\, ‘I am not a Jew\, am I? Your own nation and the chief p
 riests have handed you over to me. What have you done?’ Jesus answered\,
  ‘My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world\
 , my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the 
 Jews. But as it is\, my kingdom is not from here.’ Pilate asked him\, 
 ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered\, ‘You say that I am a king. For
  this I was born\, and for this I came into the world\, to testify to the 
 truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’ Pilate as
 ked him\, ‘What is truth?’ 
\nAfter he had said this\, he went out t
 o the Jews again and told them\, ‘I find no case against him. But you ha
 ve a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover. Do you want me
  to release for you the King of the Jews?’ They shouted in reply\, ‘No
 t this man\, but Barabbas!’ Now Barabbas was a bandit.\nChris
\nThen P
 ilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of tho
 rns and put it on his head\, and they dressed him in a purple robe. They k
 ept coming up to him\, saying\, ‘Hail\, King of the Jews!’ and strikin
 g him on the face. Pilate went out again and said to them\, ‘Look\, I am
  bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.
 ’ So Jesus came out\, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. P
 ilate said to them\, ‘Here is the man!’ When the chief priests and the
  police saw him\, they shouted\, ‘Crucify him! Crucify him!’ Pilate sa
 id to them\, ‘Take him yourselves and crucify him\; I find no case again
 st him.’ The Jews answered him\, ‘We have a law\, and according to tha
 t law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.’
 N
 ow when Pilate heard this\, he was more afraid than ever. He entered his h
 eadquarters again and asked Jesus\, ‘Where are you from?’ But Jesus ga
 ve him no answer. Pilate therefore said to him\, ‘Do you refuse to speak
  to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you\, and power to cr
 ucify you?’ Jesus answered him\, ‘You would have no power over me unle
 ss it had been given you from above\; therefore the one who handed me over
  to you is guilty of a greater sin.’ From then on Pilate tried to releas
 e him\, but the Jews cried out\, ‘If you release this man\, you are no f
 riend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself agains
 t the emperor.’ When Pilate heard these words\, he brought Jesus outside
  and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement\, or 
 in Hebrew Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover\; a
 nd it was about noon. He said to the Jews\, ‘Here is your King!’ They 
 cried out\, ‘Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!’ Pilate asked 
 them\, ‘Shall I crucify your King?’ The chief priests answered\, ‘We
  have no king but the emperor.’ Then he handed him over to them to be cr
 ucified.\n\nHilary
\nSo they took Jesus\; and carrying the cross by hims
 elf\, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull\, which in Hebr
 ew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him\, and with him two others\
 , one on either side\, with Jesus between them. Pilate also had an inscrip
 tion written and put on the cross. It read\, ‘Jesus of Nazareth\, the Ki
 ng of the Jews.’ Many of the Jews read this inscription\, because the pl
 ace where Jesus was crucified was near the city\; and it was written in He
 brew\, in Latin\, and in Greek. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to
  Pilate\, ‘Do not write\, “The King of the Jews”\, but\, “This man
  said\, I am King of the Jews.”’ Pilate answered\, ‘What I have writ
 ten I have written.’ When the soldiers had crucified Jesus\, they took h
 is clothes and divided them into four parts\, one for each soldier. They a
 lso took his tunic\; now the tunic was seamless\, woven in one piece from 
 the top. So they said to one another\, ‘Let us not tear it\, but cast lo
 ts for it to see who will get it.’ This was to fulfil what the scripture
  says\, ‘They divided my clothes among themselves\, and for my clothing 
 they cast lots.’ And that is what the soldiers did.\nChris
\nMeanwhile
 \, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother\, and his mother’s s
 ister\, Mary the wife of Clopas\, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his m
 other and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her\, he said to his 
 mother\, ‘Woman\, here is your son.’ Then he said to the disciple\, 
 ‘Here is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into h
 is own home. After this\, when Jesus knew that all was now finished\, he s
 aid (in order to fulfil the scripture)\, ‘I am thirsty.’ A jar full of
  sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a 
 branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the win
 e\, he said\, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his
  spirit.\nHilary
\nSince it was the day of Preparation\, the Jews did no
 t want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath\, especially becaus
 e that Sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have 
 the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. Then the sold
 iers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been cr
 ucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already 
 dead\, they did not break his legs. Instead\, one of the soldiers pierced 
 his side with a spear\, and at once blood and water came out. (He who saw 
 this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true\, a
 nd he knows that he tells the truth.) These things occurred so that the sc
 ripture might be fulfilled\, ‘None of his bones shall be broken.’ And 
 again another passage of scripture says\, ‘They will look on the one who
 m they have pierced.’
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