Day of Confusion

We have the great ability to look back and see the whole picture but for the followers of Jesus , they only had that day in between . That day that had to have shaken them to their very core of who they are or who they thought they were going to be . Just think a week before , surrounded by a throng shouting and proclaiming he coming Jesus as the coming King. I can imagine the disciples caught up in the jubilation. Thinking , this is it we are about to see the true power of Jesus unleashed. The Romans rule will be destroyed and the glory days of old will be upon us. No doubt they still have ideas of ruling with Jesus .

Even when Jesus told them what would occur and had to to fulfill the reason He had come , they would put up blinders. They could not fathom or grasp a dying and publicly executed Messiah. In fairness  , why would they even if they heard over and over Jesus make it clear the Messiah had to die but would rise again. This was the man that healed disease,fed over 5000 , calmed the storms,walked on water , raised the dead . Why would they think that mortal man could harm him. They were mere men , and like us we only sometimes want to hear what we want to hear.

But now here they were . Huddled together in hiding . A broken , scared group who didn't have a clue what would happen. They had left everything to follow this Jesus . The questions running in their minds had to turn to , are we next? Will they be after us ? They had seen a inner member betray Jesus, they had all desert him in fear , one denied and then Jesus , their Messiah was beaten,stripped and crucified as a common criminal.  

Truly it was a full day of confusion , terror and fear. Plus add in the extreme grief they were feeling for losing their friend and master. This I imagine was the scene all day long . The anxiety would have been perhaps unbearable.

But then Sunday was coming , and we know what happened to this little group of men.

Verse Of The Day  :   [38] After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. [39] Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. [40] So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. [41] Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. [42] So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

(John 19:38-42 ESV)