Worship into the Week- Good Friday

Worship into the Week

Psalm 22

John 19:17-30

Tetelestai- It is finished.

A Greek word that expressed the 

accomplishment of a finished work.

Jesus had done everything 

that His father had asked of him.

It was not the cry of a loser-

but the triumph  

of the winner into eternity.

We have not been forsaken.

Psalm 22 is a prayer of complaint that ties together

 the Old Testament and the story of Jesus' passion.

It is often a lectionary reading for Good Friday

 because the Gospels refer to it multiple times

 in the telling of the crucifixion story.

There is intense suffering depicted here 

and that closely connects to the journey of Jesus.

But, there is hope and faith.

The story is not over.

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Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. John 19:30

“It is finished!” is expressed in a single Greek word. Tetelestai! The word was not a whisper expected of a dying man, nor was it gasped with the weakness of a man giving up. It was shouted. Clearly. Emphatically. Triumphantly.

But what exactly was “finished”?

In John 17:4, in His great high priestly prayer, Jesus says, “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.” And John echoes that in His account of Christ on the cross. In setting up the cry, “Tetelestai!” John says, “Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty” (John 19:28). In both cases, accomplished is the same verb in the Greek, although slightly different tenses.