Passion Week - Diagram

• Jesus acclaimed as Messiah by Palm Sunday crowds

• Jesus appears briefly in Temple and heals the sick

• Jesus and his disciples withdraw to Bethany

• Jesus curses a fig tree

• Jesus drives merchants out of the Temple

• Some Greeks request an audience with Jesus

• Chief priests and elders challenge Jesus’ authority

• Jesus responds with three parables

• Pharisees and Herodians try to trap him with questions

• Jesus questions them about identity of Messiah

• Jesus pronounces seven woes against Pharisees

• Jesus laments over Jerusalem

• Jesus commends the widow’s gift

• The Olivet Discourse - Jesus teaches on the Mt. of Olives

• Chief priests and elders plot to arrest and kill Jesus

• Dinner in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper

• Mary anoints Jesus; Judas protests

• Judas goes to the chief priests to arrange betrayal

• Disciples prepare to eat the Passover meal in Jerusalem

• Jesus and his disciples eat the Last Supper:

- Jesus washes disciples’ feet

- Jesus identifies Judas as betrayer

- Disciples argue over greatness

- Jesus predicts Peter’s denial

- Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper

- Jesus teaches and prays for his disciples

• Jesus and the disciples leave the city for Gethsemane

• Jesus prays while his disciples sleep

• Chief priests and soldiers, led by Judas, arrive to arrest Jesus

SUNDAY

Day of celebrity

MONDAY

Day of cleansing

TUESDAY

Day of confrontation

WEDNESDAY

Day of commitment

THURSDAY

Day of communion

The Week That Changed History

Key Events in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

FRIDAY

Day of crucifixion

SATURDAY

Day of confusion

SUNDAY

Day of celebration

• Jesus taken first to Annas, then to Caiaphas for trial

• Peter denies Jesus

• Jesus appears before the Sanhedrin; is condemned to death

• Judas returns the money to the priests and commits suicide

• Jesus is bound and taken to Pilate

• Pilate sends Jesus to appear before Herod Antipas

• Herod sends him back to Pilate

• Pilate has Jesus flogged, tries to release him, but bows to pressure

• Jesus is mocked by the Roman soldiers

• Jesus is led to Golgotha for crucifixion

• Jesus is crucified

• Earthquake, tombs opened, veil of the Temple splits

• Joseph of Arimithea and Nicodemus place Jesus’ body in tomb

• Chief priests and Pharisees receive permission from Pilate to post a guard at the tomb

• An angel rolls away the stone; the guards are overcome with fear

• Three women go to the tomb at dawn to anoint the body

• Finding no body, they return in haste to the city to tell the disciples

• Peter and John run to the tomb and find the burial clothes of Jesus

• The disciples leave, but Mary Magdalene stays at the tomb, weeping

• Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene at the tomb

• Mary reports her encounter to the other women; Jesus appears to them

• The guards report to the chief priests and are bribed to misrepresent the story

• Jesus appears to two disciples on the road to Emmaus

• The two disciples return to Jerusalem and tell their story to the rest

• While they are still talking, Jesus appears to all of them

Rev. Peter A. McKnight

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