With the work of redemption accomplished... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

Truly this was the Son of God.
Matthew 27:54.

With the work of redemption accomplished, the prophecies of the Old Testament fulfilled and the victory obtained, the Lord could exclaim, in yielding His life over to death; "It is finished!" (John 19:30). God confirmed this cry of His beloved Son by giving mankind clear and varied proofs both of that victory and of the honour He accorded His Son as a consequence.

First, God tore down the veil of the temple "from top to bottom" (Matthew 27:51), thus showing that "the way into the holiest of all" had now been opened up by the Lord Jesus through His shed blood (cf. Hebrews 9:7-12).

Then God opened the graves of saints, and it became clear that the Lord Jesus had vanquished death through His work of redemption (Matthew 27:51-53).

God also watched over the honour of His Son. As Isaiah had prophesied, the Lord's body was not buried with the wicked, but laid in a dignified manner in the tomb of a rich man Isaiah 53:9; Mark 16:43-46).

From the start to the end of the Lord Jesus' life on earth we see the bitter hatred of men towards Him. It did not even end with His death, for the leaders of the people had His grave carefully sealed and guarded. These precautions proved to be vain: indeed the fact of the resurrection was all the more evident and indisputable through these measures.

We are struck by His enemies' remark that Jesus had stated that He would rise again after three days (v. 63), whereas His disciples had forgotten it.

Today's reading: Leviticus 24:1-23 · Psalms 69:13-28