Everyone has certainly experienced a week which might have begun on a high note but ended quite differently. It is doubtful that any human, either before or since Christ’s week of extremes, can relate completely to what our Lord experienced! Welcomed into the city one day by the cheers of the crowd which hailed Him as the awaited King, betrayed and accused as a blasphemer and seditionist within a few days, and then nailed to a cross to die as a vile criminal – no, we have very limited understanding of what He went through that week. That week was extremely important as it unfolded and it remains the most important week in this world’s history because of its extreme events. The most extreme part of His story is the victory over the grave where He ended that one holy week plus the fact that He began the very next week with a most glorious new start!
That was, and remains, ‘extreme’!
