John 11:43-44 Located on the north wall in the sanctuary at the second window from the back, this window is simply titled “The Last Supper.” The color patterns in this window are unusually beautiful to study. It is important to remember that when depicting an event which is not dynamic such as in a “moment” which is static, an artistic license is available. A dynamic art piece such as a play, a pageant, a video, or movie can depict an event in a “living” way with scenes in a chronological order. In a static art piece, the scene may show related subjects which are not in a living or sequential order. In this window you will see such a depiction. All the factors are part of the event, but did not all occur at the same moment which the scene depicts. In this window you know it is the evening before the Crucifixion, the arches tell us it was not a public event but the institution of the New Covenant’s Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (also called the Eucharist, Holy Communion, etc.), and that it was held inside in an upper room where Golgotha Hill is not far away. Jesus will be crucified there in just a few hours. The artist reminds us of this terrible act in this static scene by placing the crosses on the hill. Also notice how she had to use the constraints of a narrow and tall window. Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous wall painting in Milan turned the view, as did most artists, to depict the scene in horizontal fashion because that was the way the wall was situated. Our artist shows it is getting dusk. The miraculous event of God truly coming to us in a physical way is found recorded in Matthew 26:17ff, Mark 14:12ff, and Luke 22:7ff. After the upper room events came the Garden of Gethsemane, the betrayal, arrest and accusations, the hearings throughout the night, Via Dolorosa (the Way of Sorrows) to Calvary, the actual crucifixion, slow death, anointing, and burial...all before six p.m. on Friday, all within 24 hours, the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Now Christ lay in death’s strong grasp until the third day. There is so much to try to say in one window, but this beautiful work should stimulate all the peripheral events surrounding the scenes as well.