Good Friday 2026

Looking at fulfilled Scripture...

Today is Good Friday when Christians all over the world remember the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, who died as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world. In the Gospel according to Matthew, our Lord told those who came to arrest Him:

In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

— Matthew 26:55-56 (KJV)

So let us look at some of these events that were fulfilled.

First we see Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver:

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

— Matthew 27:3-4 (KJV)

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

— Zechariah 11:12 (KJV)

And after Judas threw the silver pieces back at the chief priests and then went and hung himself, the chief priests bought the potter’s field:

And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

— Matthew 27:6-7 (KJV)

And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

— Zechariah 11:13 (KJV)

In rejecting Christ, the people that did brought eternal judgment on themselves, but they also brought on themselves the covenantal curses in Deuteronomy:

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

— Matthew 27:25 (KJV)

The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

— Deuteronomy 28:49-50 (KJV)

As Jesus hangs on the cross, those who came to watch Him die mocked Him, as the Psalm 22 says:

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

— Matthew 27:43 (KJV)

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

— Psalm 22:7-8 (KJV)

And Jesus cried out to God, as David wrote in his Psalm:

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

— Matthew 27:46 (KJV)

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

— Psalm 22:1 (KJV)

And finally, when Jesus died, the veil in the Holy Place in the Temple that led into the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant would have been, was torn. This signified that the sacrifices that had to be repeated never took away sins, but the sacrifice of Christ cleansed our hearts and instituted the New Covenant:

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

— Matthew 27:51 (KJV)

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us:

for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

— Hebrews 10:11-18 (KJV)

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

— Jeremiah 31:33-34 (KJV)

These are only a few examples of how Christ in His sacrificial death fulfilled the Scriptures. This is why the way to God is open to all who come to Christ:

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

— Hebrews 10:19-22 (KJV)

May all who read this come to Christ to repent and believe in Him so they may be saved and produce good works keeping with their repentance.