This is the week when the story of our salvation from abject sin to eternal life is retold in a dramatic way. The story of Holy Week is the story of God in flesh going to extraordinary lengths for us so that we may truly live. The story of Holy Week is a contemporary story.
Love is betrayed, and decency is thrown out the window.
Leaders, knowing how visionaries disrupt the status quo and offer an alternative to cultural captivity, react to protect positions and privilege. Justice is corrupted, cowardice prevails, and the victim is blamed and brutalized. We are very familiar with stories of political execution and their usual outcome. In our story, however, Jesus the Christ is both the victim and the deliverer. Innocent, he takes upon himself the burden of all of our sins and the judgment of death.