Section 62
This final act of Mark’s story begins with a woman anointing Jesus for His burial and ends with three women going to anoint Jesus’ buried body and finding that He’s risen from the dead!
In Act 6, we’ll see Jesus betrayed by Judas and denied by Peter, who had sworn that he’d die with Jesus if he needed to. We’ll see Him calling broken bread His body and calling a cup of wine a new covenant in His blood. We’ll see Him praying to His Father that He wouldn’t have to drink the cup of God’s wrath against our sin, but doing it anyway. We’ll see Jesus being condemned by the Jewish leaders, handed over to the Roman governor, mockingly crowned by Roman soldiers, crucified for claiming to be the King of the Jews, and refusing to save Himself—so He could save us.
We’ll see Him calling out to God in agony on the cross and breathing His last breath, and then we’ll see the curtain in the temple being torn in two from top to bottom, as Jesus opens up to the way back to God’s presence by His death.
Finally, we’ll see Him buried by a man named Joseph, while two women named Mary watch. And we’ll see those women coming back on the third day and finding that He’s been raised back to life!