Now burying their once Mighty Messiah, the women are helped by a Pharisee and a rich man?! Were not these men emblematic of those hardest to save and most unlikely to follow?! Yet, as the disillusioned disciples deliberate in dark corners they struggle to understand how this unpretentious, most gentle man was so brutally tortured, how this lone unconventional preacher has become the central figure of this Holiest of days, of all history, bridging earth and heaven

Their conflicted minds and hearts cannot grasp the ironies of this tragedy!

He told us what was coming, saying it is why He came!

They left everything to follow Him, who has now left them

He miraculously fed the 1,000’s but shared His last meal with only these few

He had power to raise the dead but could not prevent His own demise?

The crowds only days ago cried Hosanna (save us) later to calls of crucify Him!

This truly good man (best of men) was executed along with career criminals

One who had only the clothes on his back, buried in a brand-new tomb among the rich

He had surprised us innumerable times before, now shocked us with a typical end, death

He loved those forgotten and unloved, the average and even sinful

His bright Promises are entombed in the graveyard amongst so many other ideas and dreams

This Christ is not at all what so many had imagined, despair not dear friend, He is far more than you dared dream!