The Sabbath

The Sabbath

The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee

followed Joseph and saw the tomb

and how His body was laid in it.

Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes;

but they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.

Luke 23:55-56

THE DISCIPLES:

They all walked away, with nothing to say

They'd just lost their dearest friend.

All that He said, but now He was dead,

So this was the way it would end.

The dreams they had dreamed were not what they'd seemed

Now that He was dead and gone.

The garden, the jail, the hammer, the nail…

How could a night be so long?

THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS:

He said He’d come back; We cannot have that!

We’ve posted the finest Roman guards.

His men are all gone, they fled with the dawn.

There’s no one left to tell the tale.

The man who betrayed is laid in a grave;

The silver is back in our hands.

We’ve covered our tracks, and will not look back.

That Man will never confound us again.

THE MOTHER:

The angel, the star, the kings from afar

The wedding, the water, the wine.

Now it was done, they'd taken her Son,

Wasted before His time.

She knew it was true, she'd watched Him die too.

She'd heard them call Him just a man.

But deep in her heart she knew from the start

Somehow her Son would live again.

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Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand,

The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land.

A home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way,

From the burning of the noontide heat, and the burden of the day.

(The United Methodist Hymnal No. 297)

Then Came the Morning (Mother, Discipless)

Guy Penrod