• Devotions

    Passion Week: Devotion – Jesus’ Crucifixion and Death

     Friday Matthew 27:57-66; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:31-42 and Isaiah 52 Please read the passages above. Isaiah 52:14 – As many were astonished at you –  his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, ands form beyond that of the children of mankind The prophet Isaiah spoke this to the people.  We know that he was beaten, but do we comprehend how badly he was beaten and tortured?  I have a hard time imagining him so beaten. Marred means disfigure applies to external injury of a more permanent and serious kind: A birthmark disfigured one side of his face.  Deform suggests that something has been distorted or internally injured so severely change its normal…