Good Friday:The Week That Changed The World

What is Good Friday and why do we call Good Friday “good,” when it is such a dark and bleak event commemorating a day of suffering and death for Jesus?

If you weren’t raised as a Christian or didn’t pay close attention in Sunday school you might not know all the details about this important day.

So despite its name, is a day for somber reflection. Each Friday before Easter, Christians solemnly honor the way Jesus suffered and died for their sins.

They might attend a service that recounts Jesus’s painful crucifixion, and some even refrain from eating to show their sorrow.

Every Christian knows the tale: Jesus Christ died and rose again for the forgiveness of his followers’ sins, promising them eternal life in heaven.

Christians typically celebrate Jesus’s resurrection each spring on Easter Sunday. It’s a day, which falls three days before Easter, doesn’t get the same attention: many people don’t know why they observe it to begin with. So what is Good Friday?

Simply put, Good Friday is set aside for Christians to remember and mourn Jesus’s death. It was on this day that religious leaders arrested Jesus for claiming to be the son of God and King of the Jews, as the biblical story goes.

The leaders sentenced Jesus to crucifixion, the highest form of criminal punishment at the time, for his teachings. Jesus was then beaten, forced to carry a heavy wooden cross through jeering crowds, and finally nailed to the cross by his wrists and feet where he hung until he died.

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That terrible Friday has been called Good Friday because it led to the Resurrection of Jesus and his victory over death and sin and the celebration of Easter, the very pinnacle of Christian celebrations”.

Good Friday marks the day when wrath and mercy met at the cross. That’s why Good Friday is so dark and so Good.