Todays episode outlines Jesus’ gruesome death of crucifixion. It is a truly emotional and deep piece of writing and history. The depth of suffering Love was willing to go to bring us back to our Father is unfathomable. One line in the commentary about this chapter will forever stand out to me as a picture of how sacrificial Jesus was (when you know how painful it would have been for Him to speak while hanging from the cross): When Jesus spoke out “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” the commentary says, “This prayer was heard and noted because He had no quiet place to pray.” That line - He had no quiet place to pray - hits me so hard because in these last moments Jesus has lost everything; His freedom, His ministry, His friends and family, His clothes and soon His life…but He even lost His access to the secret place. The treasured moments of private prayer that He lived His whole life from were stripped from Him and there is something so intimate about that sacrifice; something we don’t often consider or realize He lost. And He did all of this for US.