Easter greetings, beloved listeners.

Rather than our usual interview show, we have a nomad devotional for you,

within which Malcolm Gait helps us mark the death and resurrection of Jesus

with poems from his series on the Stations of the Cross and with his reflections on the Messianic event.

And David Blower responds to Malcolm's poetry and thought in sound and song with readings

by Kate Blower. If you want more of Malcolm's poetry, then have a look at his book

Sounding the Seasons. And if you want more devotionals like this, we produce one a

month as bonus content for our beloved supporters over at patreon.com slash nomad podcast. The

The John chapter 19 verses 16 to 30

So they took Jesus and he went out, bearing his own cross,

to the place called the place of a skull,

which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him and with him two others,

one on either side and Jesus between them. Pilot also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.

It read Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.

Many of the Jews read this inscription,

for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,

and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin and in Greek.

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,

do not write the king of the Jews,

but rather this man said, I am the king of the Jews.

Pilate answered,

What I have written, I have written.

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