Top 30 Bible Verses about Easter Friday

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.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head.

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, “Surely this was a righteous man.”

Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

He who would fain be rich, and yet has not grace, shall meet with trouble, and at last with a heavy heart.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

You come to know the truth about a person when you see them at their most troubled.

Isn't it wonderful that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.