At Last He Breathed His Last: Imagining the First Good Friday

Every day is a good day to consider the cross. But Holy Week especially draws us to Golgotha. Each year, we join the church around the world, and through the ages, as we set apart Good Friday for focused contemplation of Jesus’s crucifixion. We recall Jesus’s haunting question in Gethsemane: “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?” (Mark 14:37). We don’t want to snooze through the annual remembrance of his suffering. It mattered to Jesus that his disciples would keep watch with him