The three days wait begins at the start of good Friday, leading into Sunday the resurrected Easter.
We are not told anything about Mary and how she responded, or even Joseph.
They knew the birth of Jesus was significant and miraculous and they also knew HE was called to be different.
No one is prepared for a death of a child, no matter how old they are in your life.
No one could imagine a cross, especially a parent who has watched their child grow and mature and do ministry that they tried to understand.
Mary knew he had abilities to perform miracles, she had been there, seeing it with her own eyes.
I cannot even begin to imagine the horror of seeing YOUR child, however old he is, in a chaotic violent crowd then ultimately killed.
The disciples disappeared fearing for their own lives.
The intensity of the cross was a familiar way of dying in those times, although JESUS was God and man he still suffered in His humanity.
Through the town they drug him as they brutally beat and yelled at him.
The cross was horrific in every sense and not one part of the body was ignored.
Pain and sorrow were hand in hand as the followers watched him hang there.
At noon the word tells us that Jesus called out a loud cry, “My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?”
It was all a part of the original plan, but the isolation was so intense for him.
When he finally died the temple curtain in the sanctuary was torn from top to bottom.
Witnesses observed and said, “This truly was the son of God.”
Darkness covered the entire area in a very surreal way.
Those who were there knew something was very different.
Even the thieves on the crosses next to Jesus knew that he was unique and not like the others.
The man called Joseph of Arimathea was allowed to remove his body and prepare him for burial.
The two Mary’s watched and followed.
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The leaders were unsure of Jesus power, so they placed a very LARGE stone in front of the entrance of the tomb where they laid him.
Three days wait begins at the start of good Friday.

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