But this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him.

They offered him wine vinegar and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.” There was a written notice above him, which read: this is the King of the Jews.

They said, “He saved others let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.” The soldiers also came up and mocked him. The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals-one on his right, the other on his left. Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me weep for yourselves and for your children. A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. Luke 23:26-43 “As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. Isaiah 53:5 “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” On the third day he will be raised to life!” They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. Matthew 20:18-19 “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. John 11:25-26 “ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.

Mark 9:9 “As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.” I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. John 10:17-18 “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life-only to take it up again. Isaiah 26:19 “But your dead will live, Lord their bodies will rise-let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy-your dew is like the dew of the morning the earth will give birth to her dead.” The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Isaiah 25:8 “He will swallow up death forever. Job 19:25 “I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.” “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me….”

I am walking in the shadow of the Cross, the undeserving recipient of Amazing Grace. Every time I look at it I am reminded how Jesus suffered and died on the Cross for my sins, the red ribbon symbolizing the blood He shed for me that day. Spelling out the words “Amazing Grace” and shaped into a Cross with a red ribbon tying it all together, it has become one of my most cherished décor items in my home. My daughter made me a beautiful wall hanging for Christmas one year.

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