1. Isaiah 53 (NKJ) 1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

2. Isaiah 53 (NKJ) 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

3. Isaiah 53 (NKJ) 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

4. Isaiah 53 (NKJ) 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

5. Isaiah 53 (NKJ) 9 And they made His grave with the wicked-But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

6. Isaiah 53 (NKJ) 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

7. Good Friday? Mk 8:31 (NKJ) And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mt 12:40 "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

8. Good Friday? Mt 27:62 On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, 63 saying, "Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise.' 64 "Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead.' So the last deception will be worse than the first."

9. Good Friday? Jn 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up...21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said. Mk 15:29 And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 "save Yourself, and come down from the cross!"

10. Good Friday? Lk 23:43 And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." Mary (both Marys) went to tomb early (still dark) on the first day of the week and found it empty. Jn 20:1

11. Good Friday? If 3 days and 3 nights, then when did Jesus die? Why be concerned with this? Because God’s Word is true.

12. Good Friday? Backing up from Sunday morning: ThuFriSatSun EveDayEveDayEveDayEveDay  3 days/nights 

13. Good Friday? Jewish 4 th day Jewish 5 th day Jewish 6 th day Jewish 7 th day Jewish 1 st day of week Our Wed Day Our Wed Eve Our Th Day Our Th Eve Our Fri Day Our Fri Eve Our Sat Day Our Sat Eve Our Sun Day  3 days/nights  Prepare Passover, Jewish trials Roman trials, Crucified Embalmed Guard set Mt 26:17 “The day of…” Mt 26:20- 75 “When evening had come” Mt 27:1-56 “When morning came” Mt 27:57- 61 “at evening” Mt 27:62- 66 “the next day” Mt 28:1 Lk 23:43 “Today!” Jn 19:31 legs: pre “high Sabbath” Jn 19:39- 42 Jn 20:1 Passover Lev 23:5 Feast of Unleavened Bread –or HIGH— Sabbath: Lev 23:6 Regular Sabbath Lev 23:3