Good Friday - Christian e-cards

Therefore My Father loves Me,
because I lay down My life
that I may take it again.
No one takes it from Me,
but I lay it down of Myself.
I have power to lay it down,
and I have power to take it again.
This command I have received from My Father.

Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.

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.

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.

Then He said, “Behold, I have come
to do Your will, O God.”

Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

He is not here; for He is risen, as He said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Now it was the third hour,
and they crucified Him.

Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him,
Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Jesus said, I am.

For He taught His disciples and said to them,
“The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men,
and they will kill Him. And after He is killed,
He will rise the third day.”

But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men,
and despised by the people.

My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
and from the words of My groaning?

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.

Behold! The Lamb of God
who takes away the sin of the world!

I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd gives His life
for the sheep.

I have come
that they may have life,
and that they may have
it more abundantly.

That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His death,

Then Pilate said to them,
“Why, what evil has He done?”
But they cried out all the more,
“Crucify Him!”

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother’s children;

And you, being dead in your trespasses
and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
He has made alive together with Him,
having forgiven you all trespasses,
having wiped out the handwriting
of requirements that was against us,
having nailed it to the cross.

And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
having made peace through the blood of His cross.

And being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself and became
obedient to the point of death,
even the death of the cross.

It is Christ who died,
and furthermore is also risen,
who is even at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us.

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover,
and about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews,
“Behold your King!”

Yet it pleased the Lord to [a]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.