The traditional time for all of us to meet together is Sunday morning, but that may not have been the case for the early Christians... they actually met on what we would consider to be Saturday night.

There’s a big difference between seeing an empty tomb and seeing the risen Christ.

Try to picture yourself going to a cemetery to put flowers on the grave of a loved one, a couple days after the burial, and finding the grave has been opened... the body is gone.

Had God made provision for the proper burial of His Son by a rich man hundreds of years before His death? Was Jesus’ funeral pre-arranged by His Father?

That’s why it is imperative that we know for certain that Jesus died on that cross 2,000 years ago. And that’s why, even though they didn’t issue death certificates in 33 A.D., John goes to such detail to show Jesus certified as dead.

What did Jesus mean when He said, “It is finished” ?

We should never get so caught up in the big issues of life that we ignore the simple domestic responsibilities we’ve been given. Our Lord didn’t.

There are many explicit prophecies in the Bible that you’d have to be intentionally blind to miss. And we come to one of them in our text for today, one that was unknowingly fulfilled by the soldiers at the cross.

Most of us would not want to witness an execution. We wouldn’t want that image etched into our memories. There is, however, one execution that we must keep fresh in our minds.

Don’t make Pilate’s mistake: Listen to the woman God has put in your life.