Sharp Nails, Rough Wood, Spilled Blood

Palm Sunday

John 19:16-42

Each gospel tells the story of Jesus’ crucifixion in detail, but each one tells the story in a slightly different way and for a different reason. When John tells it, he wants us to cast our eyes back-and-forth from Jesus to the people surrounding the cross so that we might ask ourselves, “What would we have done, if we were there?” John’s hope is that we would make the cross the central preoccupation of our lives.