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Reading Plan
Structure your personal scripture study by following a 15-minute, day-by-day plan. Each day's assignment includes the required scripture passages from the Come, Follow Me curriculum, as well as suggestions for additional resources to bring context and understanding to your study. For the best experience, use our Reading Plan in the free ScripturePlus app! You can track your progress and have access to the best resources.
- Verse of the Day: Matthew 27:35-37
- Scripture: Matthew 27:27-51
- Video: Messages of Christ - What was crucifixion like?
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Additional Study:
- Scripture: Matthew 27:1-26
- Video: Messages of Christ - The Trial of Jesus: His Blood Be On Us
- Video: Messages of Christ - The Women at the Cross of Jesus
- Video: Messages of Christ - The Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross
- Video: Celebrating Good Friday! (Week 16, Part 5/7) Easter | Apr 11-17
- Video: The Atoning Sacrifice on Calvary (Easter Message #2 with John Hilton III)
- Video: Why Have You Forsaken Me? (Easter Message #5 with John Hilton III)
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Reading Resources
Eric D. Huntsman, “Good Friday,” LDS Seasonal Materials
Eric D. Huntsman, “Good Friday,” BYU New Testament Commentary
Merril C. Oaks, “Jesus Christ: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ,” Encyclopedia of Mormonsim
Roger R. Keller, “Cross,” Encyclopedia of Mormonsim
Gaye Strathearn, “Why should the cross be meaningful to Latter-day Saints?” BYU New Testament Commentary
Gaye Strathearn, “Crucifixion in Antiquity,” BYU New Testament Commentary
S. Kent Brown, “Jesus on Forgiveness: Looking at Luke 23:34,” BYU New Testament Commentary
John W. Welch, “The Trial and Death of Jesus,” BYU New Testament Commentary
John W. Welch, “The Factor of Fear in the Trial of Jesus,” in Jesus Christ: Son of God, Savior, ed. Paul H. Peterson, Gary L. Hatch, and Laura D. Card (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002), 284–312.
Roger R. Keller, “Jesus Christ: Priest, King, and Prophet,” in Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views, ed. Roger R. Keller and Robert L. Millet (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005), 345–364.
John H. Groberg, “It Is Finished,” in My Redeemer Lives! ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, 2010), 1–26.
Gordon B. Hinckley, “And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly,” New Era April 1982.
W. Reid Litchfield, “The Search for the Physical Cause of Jesus Christ's Death,” BYU Studies Quarterly 37, no. 4 (1997–8): 93–109.