Holy Week: Saturday
Matthew 27:62-66
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ 64 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
Luke 23:56
Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
John 19:40
So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Waiting | Tulum, Mexico | February 2024
Saturday of Holy Week is a day of preparation and waiting. Jesus’ enemies make his tomb as secure as they know how, posting a guard to keep him in the tomb.
Mary and the other women prepare spices and make the initial arrangements to anoint Jesus’ body.
Jesus rests in the tomb.
His disciples rest and wait.
We know how this story ends. And as surely as Jesus was raised from the dead, he will come again at the end of all time and take his own to be with him in eternal joy in the life of the world to come.
But for now, let us rest and wait.
David Bahn - Reflections 