Holy Week
is a time of remembrance, and an opportunity for spiritual renewal for Christians.
is a time of remembrance, and an opportunity for spiritual renewal for Christians.
Day 1: Palm Sunday
The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’” (Matthew 21:6-9).
The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’” (Matthew 21:6-9).
Day 2: Holy Monday
- Jesus heads back into Jerusalem
- He weeps over the city’s lack of faith
- He cleanses the temple, driving out the merchants
“And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers’”
(Matthew 21:12-13).
Day 3: Holy Tuesday
Jesus talks with His disciples on the Mount of Olives about the end times
“‘Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him’”
(Matthew 24:42-44).
Day 5: Maundy Thursday
Preparations began for the Passover: Jesus sent Peter and John to secure the upper room
- That evening, Jesus and all 12 disciples gathered there
- Jesus washed their feet, and they ate the Last Supper together
“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take it; this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,’ he said to them. ‘Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.’ When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives”
(Mark 14:22-26).
- He told them again that He would suffer and die, and that one of them would betray Him
- Judas leaves to find guards to arrest Jesus
- On the Mount of Olives, Jesus is arrested
- He is put before authorities - first Annas, and finally Caiaphas the High Priest
Day 6: Holy Friday
At dawn, Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor
- Pilate offers the crowd a criminal to be crucified instead, but the religious leaders stir the crowd up to demand Jesus
- Pilate agrees and Jesus is forced to walk to Golgotha, where He hangs on a cross
“It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the Jews … 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 15:25-26, 37-39).
- After 6 hours, Jesus dies
- His body is taken down and placed in the tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea, a council member
Day 7: Holy Saturday - Guards are placed at the entrance of the tomb
“The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment”
(Luke 23:55-56).
At dawn, Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor
- Pilate offers the crowd a criminal to be crucified instead, but the religious leaders stir the crowd up to demand Jesus
- Pilate agrees and Jesus is forced to walk to Golgotha, where He hangs on a cross
“It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the Jews … 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 15:25-26, 37-39).
- After 6 hours, Jesus dies
- His body is taken down and placed in the tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea, a council member
Day 7: Holy Saturday - Guards are placed at the entrance of the tomb
“The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment”
(Luke 23:55-56).
Day 8: Resurrection Sunday
- Mary Magdalene and another Mary went to the tomb
- There, they found an angel sitting on one of the large stones that had covered the tomb entrance
- The angel tells the women that Jesus is not in the tomb, but has risen
“Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, ‘Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?’ But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. ‘Don’t be alarmed,’ he said. ‘You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him’”
(Mark 16:2-6).
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