Handing Over

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris seen from a walkway along the River Seine.

"And having bowed his head he gave over the spirit.(John 19:30)" As he tells us that Jesus died, John  words his sentence to give it a richer meaning.  He has already told us that the mother of Jesus and the disciple whom Jesus loved are at the foot of the cross.  Jesus looks down at them and whoever else is with them and gives them the Spirit.  He gifts us too with the Holy Spirit as we gather this week at the cross.