Our minister, Tim Platt, said last night that today is Good Friday, "Not good" for Jesus, but "good" for us!

Matthew 27:45-46; 50-52: 

"That afternoon, the whole earth was covered with darkness for three hours, from noon until three o'clock.

About three o'clock, Jesus shouted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Then Jesus shouted out again, dismissed his spirit, and died.

And look! The curtain secluding the Holiest Place in the Temple was split apart from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks broke, and tombs opened, and many godly men and women who had died cam back to life again."

Commentary of verses 52,53:  Christ's death was accompanied by at least four miraculous events:  darkness, the splitting of the curtain in the Temple, an earthquake, and dead people rising from their tombs. Jesus' death, therefore, could not have gone unnoticed. Everyone knew something significant had happened.