Show Don't Tell: Luke 23:44-49

Instead of saying "Jesus died on the cross," watch the sky go dark. It is now about noon, and darkness comes over the whole land until three in the afternoon—the sun stopped shining. Three hours of darkness at midday. And the curtain of the temple is torn in two. The barrier falls. Jesus calls out with a loud voice: "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he says this, he breathes his last. Not "It is finished" like John. Not "Why have you forsaken me" like Matthew and Mark. Luke records trust: into your hands. The centurion, seeing what has happened, praises God and says: "Surely this was a righteous man." A Gentile soldier recognizes what the Jewish leaders refused to see. When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight see what takes place, they beat their breasts and go away. But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stand at a distance, watching these things.