Bible Verses & Quotes About Good Friday

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

— 1 Peter 2:24

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

— Matthew 12:38-40

That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near.

— Luke 23:54

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

— John 2:19-21

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”.

— John 19:14

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

— Luke 9:22

Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

— Luke 23:56

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

— Mark 8:31

Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

— John 19:31

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

— Isaiah 53:5

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

— W.H. Auden

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called “Between.”

— Katherine J Walden

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