Day 22: Crucifixion and Burial

Ornament: Cross Scripture Reading: Luke 23:33-46, 50-56 Gospel Art Picture: 230, 231 LDS.org Images: Crucifixion of Christ Video:  Jesus is Scourged and Crucified,  Jesus is Laid in a Tomb

“He submitted Himself, and they took Him and in mockery crowned Him with a crown of platted thorns and placed a purple robe on His back. Without mercy and with hatred vile and intemperate, they beat Him and scourged Him and cried out for His crucifixion. He had done no evil. He had done only good, and in greater measure than any man before Him had ever done. Yet they cried for His death.

He staggered under the weight of the cross on which He was to hang. They nailed His quivering flesh to the unyielding wood. They mocked Him as He hung in agony.

While suffering, He forgave them. He cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46). Then He died for each of us.

But in dying He brought about the redemption of mankind. None can fully comprehend the extent and wonder and majesty of that sacrifice in our behalf. Suffice it to say He became our Redeemer.”

President Gordon B. Hinckley, The Empty Tomb Bore Testimony, April 1988 General Conference.