A Special Day
Today is the day that Jews and Christians celebrate two major episodes in the history of our faith.
First, it's the day after Passover. God inflicted ten plagues upon Egypt in order to force the pharoah, probably Ramesses II, to let the Hebrews leave Egypt. Egypt endured nine plagues; the tenth plague, the Plague of the Firstborn, was more than the Egyptians could stand. The Spirit of the Lord passed through Egypt and killed the firstborn sons and firstborn stock animals of the Egyptians; but the Lord passed over the homes of the Hebrews, which were marked with the blood of sacrificed lambs. Pharoah had no choice but to let the Hebrews go. And so, today is the day that we celebrate blood-soaked door frames and dead Egyptians... Sort of.
The story of the ten plagues, the Passover, and the Exodus can be found in the Book of Exodus, chapters seven through twelve. For additional information on the ten plagues, check out Plaguescape, an epidemiological analysis of the events in the first few chapters of Exodus.
Christians celebrate the sacrificial crucifixion of Jesus today, and it's called Good Friday. After celebrating the Passover, Christ and his disciples went to the Garden of Gethsemane, essentially a public park, to pray. Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, and given over to the Romans. The Romans flogged him, and when the Jews demanded that he be killed, he was sent to Golgotha to be crucified, suffering one of the most cruel forms of execution ever devised.
The events of Good Friday are recorded in the Gospel of Luke, chapters twenty-two and twenty-three. For more information about the events of Good Friday, check out A Physician Testifies about the Crucifixion by Dr. C. Truman Davis.
First, it's the day after Passover. God inflicted ten plagues upon Egypt in order to force the pharoah, probably Ramesses II, to let the Hebrews leave Egypt. Egypt endured nine plagues; the tenth plague, the Plague of the Firstborn, was more than the Egyptians could stand. The Spirit of the Lord passed through Egypt and killed the firstborn sons and firstborn stock animals of the Egyptians; but the Lord passed over the homes of the Hebrews, which were marked with the blood of sacrificed lambs. Pharoah had no choice but to let the Hebrews go. And so, today is the day that we celebrate blood-soaked door frames and dead Egyptians... Sort of.
The story of the ten plagues, the Passover, and the Exodus can be found in the Book of Exodus, chapters seven through twelve. For additional information on the ten plagues, check out Plaguescape, an epidemiological analysis of the events in the first few chapters of Exodus.
Christians celebrate the sacrificial crucifixion of Jesus today, and it's called Good Friday. After celebrating the Passover, Christ and his disciples went to the Garden of Gethsemane, essentially a public park, to pray. Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, and given over to the Romans. The Romans flogged him, and when the Jews demanded that he be killed, he was sent to Golgotha to be crucified, suffering one of the most cruel forms of execution ever devised.
The events of Good Friday are recorded in the Gospel of Luke, chapters twenty-two and twenty-three. For more information about the events of Good Friday, check out A Physician Testifies about the Crucifixion by Dr. C. Truman Davis.
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