What is the significance of "good friday" and why is it called that?

Good Friday Significance

Significance Of Good Friday

A lot think it's because with the Resurrection, the day was good because Jesus conquered sin and the grave, so it's good in that sense. While that may be true, it's a corruption of the original phrase, which was "God's Friday." The day belonged to God for the same reason, the work of the cross to secure our salvation, Jesus shedding His blood for our sins as His sacrifice.

The Friday before Easter Sunday, on which the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ is commemorated in the Christian Church. It is traditionally a day of fasting and penance.

Origin

From good, in the sense 'holy, observed as a holy day'.

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Good Friday[1] is a Christian religious holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday,[2][3][4] or Easter Friday,[5][6] though the last term properly refers to the Friday in Easter week.

Good Friday is a widely instituted legal holiday in many national governments around the world, including in most Western countries (especially among Anglican and Catholic nations) as well as in 12 U.S. states.[7] Some countries, such as Germany, have laws prohibiting certain acts, such as dancing and horse racing, that are seen as profaning the solemn nature of the day.

The etymology of the term "good" in the context of Good Friday is contested. Some sources claim "good" to simply mean pious or holy,[10] while others contend that it is a corruption of "God Friday". The Oxford English Dictionary supports the first etymology, giving "of a day or season observed as holy by the church" as an archaic sense of good (good, adj. 8c), and providing examples of good tide meaning "Christmas" or "Shrove Tuesday", and Good Wednesday meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week.[11]

In German-speaking countries, Good Friday is generally referred to as Karfreitag (Kar from Old High German kara‚ "bewail", "grieve"‚ "mourn", Freitag for "Friday"): Mourning Friday. The Kar prefix is an ancestor of the English word "care" in the sense of cares and woes; it meant mourning. The day is also known as Stiller Freitag ("Silent Friday") and Hoher Freitag ("High Friday, Holy Friday").

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It's Good Friday, as it is a proper name. This is the day that Christians celebrate as the day that Jesus was crucified, supposedly paying for all the sins of the world, hence the term Good. Easter Sunday is the day that he rose from the dead.

The Friday before Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the day on which Christ was crucified.

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In mainstream Christian religions it is a celebration of the anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus. The crucifixion was required to secure salvation for sinners (I am hazy on that part) so it must have been good.

In Christian teaching forgiveness for our sins came through the condemnation and execution of the only truly innocent man.

In the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, . . . as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. . . . Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now.”—(New York, 1943), pp. 103, 107, 108; compare Jeremiah 7:18.

First of all,to correct other answers,we do NOT celebrate it,we observe it as being the day Jesus was crucified.Celebration comes on Easter Sunday,the day he rose from the dead.