Holy Week Reading | Day 5

O Jerusalem

Mark 15:33-41

And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

In the days of his flesh, ​Jesus​ offered up prayers and supplications, ​with loud cries and tears, to him ​who was able to save him from death, and ​he was heard because of his reverence. ​Although ​he was a son, ​he learned obedience through what he suffered. ​And ​being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, (Hebrews 5:7)

And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink,

They gave me ​poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me ​sour wine to drink. (Psalm 69:21)

saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. (Exodus 26:33)

And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

My ​friends and companions ​stand aloof from my ​plague, ​
and my nearest kin ​stand far off. (Psalm 38:11)

When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

O Jerusalem