Good Friday (from the senses pious, holy of the word "good"), is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, or Easter Friday,though the latter normally refers to the Friday in Easter week.
Good Friday Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for sending
your son to die on the cross for my sins and the sins of the world, so that we
may all have entire life.
Matthew 27:27 – 61-
Events of Good Friday
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
27 Then the
governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole
company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him
and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted
together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his
right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the
Jews!” they said. 30 They spit on him, and took the
staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31
After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on
him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
The Crucifixion
of Jesus
32
As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they
forced him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a
place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with
gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35
When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against
him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 38 Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
The Death of
Jesus
45 From
noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[a] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[b]
47 When
some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”
48
Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar,
put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest
said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
50 And
when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 At
that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The
earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies
of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came
out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[c] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
54 When
the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and
all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the
Son of God!”
55 Many
women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from
Galilee to care for his needs. 56 Among them were Mary Magdalene,
Mary the mother of James and Joseph,[d] and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
The Burial of Jesus
57
As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named
Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58 Going to
Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59
Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and
placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big
stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61 Mary
Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb. 
