The Torn Veil

With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” Mark 15-37(NIV)

How could an act of weakness, such as a man dying on a cross, cause this kind of response in an elite Roman soldier?

In the Jewish temple there was a place called the Holy of holies. A heavy curtain covered the entrance; separated unholy man from a holy God. When that curtain was ripped in two the separation between God and man was gone.

Suddenly the centurion saw what he couldn’t see before: Jesus was not an ordinary man, but Almighty God’s ultimate expression of mercy reconciling mankind to Himself.

Can you see that? Or do you still see just a man on a cross?