Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion

Lectionary: 40

Reading I

Isaiah 52:13—53:12

See, my servant shall prosper,            he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.Even as many were amazed at him--            so marred was his look beyond human semblance            and his appearance beyond that of the sons of man--so shall he startle many nations,            because of him kings shall stand speechless;for those who have not been told shall see,            those who have not heard shall ponder it.Who would believe what we have heard?            To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?He grew up like a sapling before him,            like a shoot from the parched earth;there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him,            nor appearance that would attract us to him.He was spurned and avoided by people,            a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,one of those from whom people hide their faces,            spurned, and…