Below, the Easter story paragraphs are
in the wrong order. Click on the first paragrah of the
Easter Story.
The Last Supper
On the evening of the festival, Jesus
and his friends sat down to their meal,
but before they ate, Jesus started to
wash his friends feet. His friends were
surprised because that was servants
work, but he was demonstrating that
he wanted them to serve each other just
as he was serving them. Jesus told his
friends that one of them was going to
betray him before the cock crowed the
following morning. They were all shocked
and surprised. He broke bread and told
them 'This is my body' and poured wine
and told them 'This is my blood'.
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The Trial
The Priests wanted to kill Jesus, but
they wanted it to look like a fair trial.
The priests needed the Roman Governor,
Pontius Pilate consent to carry out the
execution and realised that they needed
to charge Jesus with treason. Pilate didn't
think that Jesus had done anything treasonable,
but the priests stirred the crowd that
had gathered into a riot, and the Roman
Governor agreed to sentence him to death
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The Journey to Jerusalem
Jesus wanted to get to Jerusalem for the
Feast of the Passover. He asked two of his
friends to fetch a donkey from the next
village. Jesus then mounted the donkey and
road into the crowded streets of Jerusalem.
When the people of Jerusalem heard that
Jesus was coming they came out to meet him,
spreading their coats and fronds of palm
leaves on the road for him to ride over.d
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The Resurrection
Two days later, a friend of Jesus, Mary
Magdalene, was walking past the cave,
when she realised that the stone had been
removed and looking in, she saw that Jesus
body had been taken. She caught sight
of a man that she thought was the gardener,
and yelled at him for taking Jesus body.
Suddenly he turned and spoke to her and
she recognised that it was Jesus himself
that she was talking to. He had risen
from the dead.
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The Argument in the
Temple
Jesus arrived at the Temple where he saw
men selling pigeons for sacrifice and
money-changers handing out the special
Temple coins. He was very angry and turned
over the tables, driving them out of the
temple. Two days before the actual feast
of the Passover, Judas Iscariot, one of
Jesus' 12 friends, went to the chief priests.
He had been disappointed that Jesus had
not led a revolt against the Romans, now
he wanted to betray him, and was given
30 pieces of silver for doing so.
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The Crucifixion
The soldiers took Jesus away, flogged
him and gave him a crown of thorns and
generally mocked him. He had to carry
his own heavy cross onto the hill where
he was to be crucified. Then they nailed
his hands and feet to the cross and left
him hanging there to die. After he was
dead, he was taken down from the cross
and left in a burial cave where a stone
had been rolled across the entrance to
stop wild animals from getting in.
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The Capture
After the meal was finished, some of them
wandered out into the garden of Gethsemane
where Jesus knelt down to pray. He had
asked his friends to stand guard, but
when he checked, they had fallen asleep.
He woke them up and went back to pray.
Three times this happened but on the last
time, the Temple guards and Chief Priests
caught Jesus. His friends ran off and
left him.
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