Suffering
The Easter story is about the final days of Jesus’ life. It is about acute suffering and anguish. It is about the isolation that Jesus felt in the midst of his pain, and it includes the fact that however close his friends were to him, they really did not understand the reality of what he was enduring. Jesus encouraged people to live in hope and experience a good life, and yet the end of his life’s story includes rejection, loneliness, misunderstanding, overwhelming isolation, betrayal, agony, unbearable pain, being drugged and death. The story of Jesus’ final days tells of someone who chose to suffer on behalf of other people.
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