It Is Finished

 

John 19:28-30

Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

A darkness rolled across the land

That heaved beneath their feet.

The task that He’d come to perform

Was now, at last, complete.

The debt was paid, the sin washed clean,

The sacrifice was made,

But those who stood beneath that cross

Were broken and dismayed.

For, even then, the did not know,

Did not yet understand,

That this was prophecy fulfilled,

This sacrifice was planned.

They stood beneath that blood washed cross

As darkness filled each heart,

For though He died to redeem them,

It tore their world apart.

Though peace would come another day,

Today they faced the price.

They wrapped their hope in linen cloth,

In myrrh, aloe and spice.

They laid Him in a tomb of stone,

Sealed against life and light,

And left Him there, to lie alone

in death’s eternal night.