Saturday of Holy Week was a day of silence. Apart from the Chief Priests and the Pharisees asking Pilate for permission to post guards at the tomb (Matt 27:62-66), nothing else is recorded. There was nothing for the disciples to do except to go home now and wonder if they’d wasted the last few years of their lives…to wonder when the Pharisees and the Romans would be coming after them. Their leader, the one whom they thought would save them all, the one whom they had said and thought was the Messiah, was now gone. There was no hope, at least for the next 24 hours…
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