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Good Friday Readings 2023 is a significant day in the Christian calendar, marking the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.

It is a time of solemn reflection and prayer for believers around the world.

Good Friday, which falls on Fri, Apr 7, 2023, is a solemn day in the Christian calendar that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

It is a day of reflection and remembrance of the sacrifice that Jesus made for humanity’s sins.

Many churches observe Good Friday Readings 2023 by conducting special services that include readings from the Gospels, prayer, and reflection.

On this day, many churches hold special services that include readings from the Passion narrative.

One common way to do this is through passion reading in parts, where different individuals or groups take turns reading different sections of the story.

Another one is, As part of the Good Friday services, responsive readings are often included to help the congregation engage with the scripture and reflect on its meaning.

Responsive readings involve alternating between a leader and the congregation, with each group reading a different part of the passage.

These readings help to bring a sense of community and shared experience to the service, as everyone participates in the solemn remembrance of Jesus’ sacrifice.

In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the most impactful readings for Good Friday Readings 2023.

From Old Testament prophecies to New Testament accounts of the crucifixion, these passages will guide you through the events of Good Friday Readings 2023 and help you connect with God on a deeper level.

So, let’s delve into these Good Friday readings and discover the profound truths that they hold.

Table of Contents

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1st Reading	Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Responsorial Psalm	Psalms 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25
2nd Reading	Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9
Verse Before the Gospel	Philippians 2:8-9
Gospel	John 18:1-19:42

Reading 1 >> Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Behold, my servant will be grateful,
He will be exalted and greatly exalted.
Even many people were amazed at him —
so disfigured that his appearance was beyond human appearance
And his form is greater than the sons of men–
In the same way he will astound many nations,
Because of that the kings will be speechless;
because those who were not told will see,
Those who haven’t heard will consider it.

Who will believe what we hear?
To whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
He grew like a plant before her,
like a sprout from dry earth;
There was no stately feeling in him that we should look at him,
Nor the form that would attract us to him.
He was rejected and avoided by the people,
afflicted, accustomed to weakness,
is one of those from whom people hide their faces,
Rejected, and we paid no respect to him.

Yet he bore our infirmities,
our sufferings that he bore,
While we thought him a victim,
Slain by God and as a victim.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
was crushed for our sins;
On him was the chastisement that makes us whole,
We were healed by his whips.
We all went astray like sheep,
each follows his own way;
but the Lord lay on him
The fault of all of us.

Although he was treated harshly, he submitted
and did not open his mouth;
as a lamb is led to the slaughter
or before the shearers,
He remained silent and did not open his mouth.
Persecuted and condemned, he was taken away,
And who would have thought more about his fate?
When he was separated from the land of the living,
and struck for the sin of his people,
a grave was assigned to him among the wicked
and the grave with the evildoers,
even though he did nothing wrong
Nor did anyone speak untruth.
but the Lord was pleased
To crush him in weakness.

If he gives his life as a sin offering,
He will see his descendants live long,
And the will of Jehovah will be done through him.

because of his suffering
He will see the light all day long;
My servant will justify many by his sorrow,
And he will bear their blame.
Therefore I will give him his share among the great,
And he will share the spoils with the mighty,
because he gave himself up to death
and was counted among the wicked;
he will take away the sins of many,
and receive forgiveness for their transgressions.

Responsive Hymn
31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25
R. (LK 23:46) Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
O Lord, I take refuge in you;
Never let me be ashamed
Deliver me according to your justice.
I commit my soul into your hands;
O Jehovah, O faithful God, you will deliver me.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
To all my enemies I am worthy of censure,
An object of derision to my neighbors, and a source of fear to my friends;
Those who see me in foreign countries run away from me.
I am forgotten like a dead man;
I am like a broken pot.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
But in you, O Lord, I trust;
I say, “You are my God.
My fate is in your hands; save me
Save me from the clutches of my enemies and my oppressors.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
Shine the light of your face on your servant;
Save me with your grace.
Have courage and be strong hearted,
All of you who hope in Jehovah.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.

Responsorial Psalm

R. (LK 23:46) Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
O Lord, I take refuge in you;
Never let me be ashamed
Deliver me according to your justice.
I commit my soul into your hands;
O Jehovah, O faithful God, you will deliver me.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
To all my enemies I am worthy of censure,
An object of derision to my neighbors, and a source of fear to my friends;
Those who see me in foreign countries run away from me.
I am forgotten like a dead man;
I am like a broken pot.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
But in you, O Lord, I trust;
I say, “You are my God.
My fate is in your hands; save me
Save me from the clutches of my enemies and my oppressors.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.
Shine the light of your face on your servant;
Save me with your grace.
Have courage and be strong hearted,
All of you who hope in Jehovah.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my soul.

2nd Reading

Brothers & Sisters:
because we have a great high priest who has passed through heaven,
Jesus, the son of God,
Let us stick to our confession.
because we have no high priest
who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses,
But the one who has been tested in all respects,
yet without sin.
So let us approach the throne of grace with faith
To receive mercy and to receive grace for timely help.

In the days when Christ was in the flesh,
she prayed and pleaded with loud cries and tears
who was able to save him from death,
And because of his devotion he was heard.
Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;
and when it was made perfect,
He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

Verse Before the Gospel

Christ became obedient unto death,
Even death on the cross.
That’s why God increased him a lot
And gave him the name which is the best of all names.

Gospel – good friday gospel reading

Jesus crosses the Kidron brook with his disciples
where there was a garden,
In which he and his disciples entered.
Judas, his betrayer, also knew the place,
Because Jesus often met with his disciples there.
So Judah got a body of soldiers and guards
from the chief priests and the Pharisees
And went there with lantern, torch and weapon.
Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to him,
He went outside and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.”
He said to them, “I am.”
He was accompanied by his betrayer Judas.
When he said to them, “I am,”
He turned and fell on the ground.
So he asked them again,
“who are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus the Nazorean.”
Jesus replied,
“I told you I am.
So if you are looking for me, then let these men go.
This was to fulfill what he had said,
“I haven’t lost any of those you’ve given me.”
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew
struck the servant of the high priest, and tore off his right ear.
The name of the slave was Malkhus.
Jesus said to Peter,
“Sheath your sword.
Shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?

So the band of soldiers, the captain, and the Jewish guards seized Jesus,
Tied him up, and took him first to Hannah.
He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,
who was the high priest that year.
It was Caiaphas who gave advice to the Jews.
It is better that a man die than the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.
Now the second disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest,
And he went with Jesus to the high priest’s court.
But Peter stood outside at the door.
So the second disciple, an acquaintance of the high priest,
Going outside, he asked the gatekeeper to bring Peter inside.
Then the maidservant who kept the door said to Peter,
“Aren’t you one of this man’s disciples?”
He said, “I am not.”
Now the slaves and guards stood around the coal fire
which they made because it was cold,
And were heating themselves.
Peter was also standing there warming himself.

the high priest questioned jesus
About his disciples and about his doctrine.
Jesus answered him,
“I have spoken publicly in front of the world.
I’ve always taught in the synagogue
or in the area of the temple where all the Jews gather,
And in secret I have said nothing. Why do you ask me?
Ask those who heard me what I said to them.
They know what I said.
When he said this,
One of the temple guards standing there hit Jesus and said,
“Is this the way you answer the high priest?”
Jesus answered him,
“If I have spoken wrong, bear witness to the wrong;
But if I have said the right thing, why do you kill me?”
Then Anna bound him and sent him to the high priest Caiaphas.

Simon Peter was standing there warming himself.
And they said to him,
“You’re not one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied this and said,
“I am not.”
One of the slaves of the high priest,
One of his relatives, whose ear Peter had cut off, said,
“Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?”
Peter again denied it.
And immediately the rooster crowed.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the fortress of the fortress.
It was morning.
And they themselves did not go inside the fort,
so that they would not be unclean so that they could eat the Passover.
Then Pilate came out to them and said,
“What do you allege against this man?”
He answered and said to her,
“If he had not been a criminal,
We don’t hand it over to you.
Then Pilate said to them,
“You take him and judge him according to your law.”
The Jews answered him,
“We don’t have the right to hang anyone,”
so that the word of Jesus may be fulfilled
that he said indicating what kind of death he would die.
so pilate went back inside the fort
and called Jesus and said to him,
“Are you the king of the Jews?”
Jesus replied,
“Do you say this to yourself
Or have others told you about me?
Pilate replied,
“I’m not a Jew, am I?
Your own tribe and the chief priests handed you over to me.
What have you done?
Jesus replied,
“My kingdom is not of this world.
If my kingdom were of this world,
my attendants must be fighting
that I may be saved from being handed over to the Jews.
But as it is, my kingdom is not here.”
Pilate said to him,
“So you’re the king?”
Jesus replied,
“You say I am a king.
For this I was born and for this I came into the world,
To bear witness to the truth.
Everyone of truth listens to my voice.
Pilate said to him, what is truth?

When he said this,
He went out again to the Jews and said to them,
“I don’t find any fault in that.
But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you on the Passover.
Do you want me to release you the king of the Jews?
they shouted again,
“Not this one Barabbas!”
Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Then Pilate took Jesus to be flogged.
And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and put it on his head,
or clothed him in purple,
and they came to him

and said,
“Hail, King of the Jews!”
And they hit him again and again.
Once again Pilate went out and said to them,
“Look, I’m bringing him out to you,
By which you may know that I do not find any fault in him.”
so jesus came out
Wearing a crown of thorns and a purple cloak.
And he said to them, “Look, man!”
When the chief priests and the guards saw him, they cried out,
“Crucify him, crucify him!”

Pilate said to them,
“You take him and crucify him.
I don’t find any fault in that.
The Jews replied,
“We have a law, and according to that law he must die,
because he made himself the son of God.”
When Pilate heard this,
He got even more scared
And returning inside the fort said to Jesus,
“where are you from?”
Jesus didn’t answer him.
Pilate said to him,
“Don’t you talk to me?
don’t you know i have the power to release you
And I have the right to crucify you?”
Jesus answered him,
“You shall have no right over me
If it had not been given to you from above.
That’s why the one who handed me over to you
It is a great sin.”
As a result, Pilate tried to have him released; But the Jews cried out,
“If you leave him, you are not Caesar’s friend.
Everyone who makes himself king opposes Caesar.

When Pilate heard these things, he brought Jesus out
and put him on the judge’s bench
At the place which is called the stone platform, gabbata in Hebrew.
It was the day of preparation for the Passover, and it was high noon.
And he said to the Jews,
“Behold, your king!”
they cried out,
“Take him, take him! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them,
“Shall I crucify your king?”
The chief priests replied,
“We have no king but Caesar.”
Then he handed him over to be crucified.

So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross themselves,
He came out and went to the place which is called the place of the skull,
In Hebrew, Golgotha.
There they crucified him and two others with him.
One on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
Pilate also got an inscription written and put it on the cross.
Read it,
“Jesus the Nazorian, King of the Jews.”
Now many Jews read this inscription,
Because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city.
And it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,
“Don’t write ‘King of the Jews’,
But that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews’.”
Pilate replied,
“What I wrote, I wrote.”

When the soldiers crucified Jesus,
They took his clothes and divided him into four parts.
One part for each soldier.
They also took his shirt, but the shirt was without Siyan,
Knit in one piece from top to bottom.
So they said to each other,
“Let us not tear it, but cast lots to see whose it will be.”
So that the passage of the Holy Scripture which says:
They divided my clothes among themselves,
And they put a lot on my dress.
This is what the soldiers did.
Jesus’ mother standing near the cross
and Miriam, the wife of his aunt Cleopas,
and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved
He said to his mother, O woman, look, you have a son.
Then he said to the disciple,
“Look, your mother.”
And from that time that disciple took him to his house.

Then, knowing that it was all over,
so that the scriptures might be fulfilled,
Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
There was a vessel full of mango wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop
and put it near his mouth.
When Jesus took the wine, he said,
“it ended.”
And bowed his head and handed over to the soul.

       Here everyone kneels and pauses for a short time.

Now that it was preparation day,
so that the dead do not remain on the cross on the Sabbath,
Because the Sabbath of that week was holy,
The Jews beg Pilate that his legs be broken
and take them down.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first
And then of the other who was crucified with Jesus.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead,
They didn’t break his legs,
But a soldier thrust his spear into his side,
And immediately blood and water gushed out.
An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true;
He knows he is telling the truth,
so that you too can believe.
This happened so that this passage of scripture might be fulfilled:
Not a single bone will be broken.
And again another passage says:
They will see that which they have pierced.

Then Joseph of Arimathea,
Secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews,
Pilate asked if he could take away the body of Jesus.
And Pilate allowed it.
So he came and took away her body.
Nicodemus, who came before him at night,
And brought a mixed mixture of myrrh and agar.
Weighs about one hundred pounds.
they took the body of jesus
and wrapped it in a shroud with spices,
According to Jewish burial custom.
now in place

There was a garden where he was crucified,
and a new grave in the garden, in which no one had yet been buried.
So they put Jesus there because of the Jews’ preparation day;
Because the grave was near. SOURCE.

Good Friday Scripture Reading

Good Friday Readings 2023 is a solemn day observed by Christians worldwide to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The day is observed on the Friday before Easter Sunday and is a significant event in the Christian faith.

One of the ways Christians observe Good Friday Readings 2023 is by reading and reflecting on scripture passages that recount the events leading up to Jesus’ death on the cross.

Here are some of the significant scripture readings for Good Friday:

John 18:1-19:42 – This passage details the betrayal, arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus. It is a lengthy account, but it provides a comprehensive understanding of the events leading up to Jesus’ death.
Matthew 27:11-54 – This passage narrates the trial, crucifixion, and death of Jesus. It is a shorter account but provides vivid details of the events leading up to the crucifixion.
Mark 15:21-41 – This passage provides a concise yet descriptive account of the crucifixion of Jesus, including the mocking, insults, and physical torture that he endured before his death.
Luke 23:26-49 – This passage recounts the journey of Jesus to Golgotha, his crucifixion, and his final words before his death.

Reflecting on these passages and the events they describe can be a powerful way to observe Good Friday Readings 2023 and deepen one’s understanding of the Christian faith.

It is also an opportunity to meditate on the sacrifice Jesus made for humanity and the forgiveness and redemption that he offers.

Final Thought – Good Friday Readings 2023

As we approach Good Friday Readings 2023, there is no better way to deepen our understanding and connection with God. than by reading the powerful biblical passages that commemorate the events of the day.

From Old Testament prophecies to New Testament accounts of the crucifixion, these readings offer insights into the transformative power of Christ’s love and grace.

As we reflect on the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus made for humanity, these Good Friday Readings 2023 remind us of the profound truths of our faith.

They invite us to contemplate the power of forgiveness, the mystery of the cross, and the redemptive promise of the resurrection.

Whether you are a lifelong Christian or a newcomer to the faith, these readings are essential for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the meaning of Good Friday.

So, this year, take a moment to immerse yourself in these powerful biblical passages and connect with God on a deeper level.

May these Good Friday Readings 2023 s be a source of comfort, strength, and inspiration as we continue to walk the path of faith.

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