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Easter!
HE IS ALIVE
Easter!!!
The action began a week
before, on the Sunday when Jesus came to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival Jesus the He’s coming Who? prophet who does wonderful miracles
... and the people began to celebrate, cheering and singing praise to God. Hosanna! Bless the King who comes in the name of the Lord
Praise God our King has come
but the leaders thought otherwise They can’t say that Tell them to stop
After that amazing arrival Jesus came into the Temple of God each day.
This Temple is my Father’s house of prayer and you’ve made it a den of thieves. GET OUT!
He threw the money changers out of the temple courts The leaders already planned to kill Jesus because he had shown them up and he’s bad He shut down as ungodly for business our money and greedy.
That Jesus is back in town
He calls us hypocrites
changers again
They got what they wanted when one of Jesus’ friends, Judas Iscariot, decided to betray him.
Jesus is not going to make himself king...
You want to get Jesus? We do!
How much will you pay?
We must get rid of him
but he is too popular to arrest
I’ll never get a top job with The leaders want him him now dead... I’ll help them! He’s too soft
Here’s 30 silver coins
It’s a deal...
Just before the
Passover Sabbath Jesus gathered his friends in an upper room to celebrate the traditional meal.
Halfway through, Judas
Then See this bread...
went out into the night...
this is my body broken for you... eat it to remember me
next
see this red wine...
this is my blood poured out for you, drink this to remember me! and churches still celebrate this dramatic remembrance to this day. Come, let us go to the garden to pray
I’m going away but I will be with you always. My Spirit will live in you...
The garden of Gethsemane was across from Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives
Father please take this suffering from me
Then, ready for what was to come, he returned to his friends.
They didn’t understand this until later...
Stay here and pray, I’ll go a little further... He prayed and prayed ...but not what I want, but what you want...
Couldn’t you watch with me? Pray or else temptation will overpower you!
Just then an
armed crowd arrived led by Judas Iscariot.
Teacher!
That was the signal for the mob to grab Jesus...
Why did you do it this way? I was teaching each day in the Temple They tied him up and dragged him off to the High Priest.
All the religious leaders had gathered there...
They brought many charges against him but couldn’t prove anything. so finally the High Priest shouted...
Enough of this. Are you the Messiah, the Son of God?
I AM
Death
and you will see me at God’s right hand
KILL HIM! That’s blasphemy*! Kill Kill
rage
*’Blasphemy’ meant insulting God!