Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. – I Corinthians 15:33. Is this a fitting text for Eastertide? It seems not. But learn what happened on Easter Day. Some of the guards, on recovering from their faint and fright…

He is risen. – Matthew 28:6. When it began to dawn on Easter Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, and Joanna, and a small company of other women that came with Jesus from Galilee,…

Neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption. – Psalm 16:10. On the day that followed the day of the Preparation, hence on the Passover Sabbath, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying: “Sir, we…

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. – Isaiah 26:20. Jesus had died upon the cross. What did they…

This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. — I John 5:6. In Deuteronomy 21:22-23 you…

The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. – I Corinthians 1:18. When the centurion who stood over against the cross of Jesus, and they…

By His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. – Hebrew 9:12. The innermost part of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and later the Temple at Jerusalem, was the Holy of…

It is finished. Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.  John 19:30 & Luke 23:46. When Jesus had received the vinegar, He said with a loud voice: “It is finished.” Full atonement for the sins of the world had…

I thirst. – John 19:28. Consider what the Savior had suffered so far; and now He was in bodily anguish at the point of death. In prophecy He Himself relates this as follows: “I am poured out like water, and…

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? – Matthew 27:46. And when the sixth hour was come, at noon, the sun was darkened, and there was a darkness over all the land until the ninth hour, until three o’clock in the afternoon. This…