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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.
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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
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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 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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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 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 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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