The Agony of Grief
No one was waiting for Sunday.
Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.
Matthew 27:59-60
Holy Saturday was bleak hopelessness. Jesus seemed to everyone to be the best and brightest prospect for sinners, the poor, the sick, the outcast—and now…