SATURDAY
8 SUNDAY
7 MONDAY
6 TUESDAY
5
An important holiday called Jesus walked from Bethany Jesus saw people buying and Jesus taught people in the
Passover was only six days to Jerusalem. He rode into selling things in the temple. temple and on a nearby hill
away. Many people were the city on a donkey, as a Because He wanted the called the Mount of Olives.
coming to Jerusalem so they verse in the Old Testament temple to be a “house of The priests plotted to kill
could offer sacrifices in the said He would. People rec- prayer,” He made them leave. Jesus. One of His disciples,
temple on that day. Jesus ognized Him as their King, Then He healed people who Judas Iscariot, agreed to turn
walked to Bethany, a village shouting, “Hosanna,” and were lame or blind. The Jesus over to the priests in
near Jerusalem. He would laying down palm leaves jealous priests were angry exchange for 30 silver coins.
stay there for five nights with in front of the donkey to with Him. See Matthew 25:31–46;
His friends Lazarus, Mary, keep dust from getting on See Matthew 21:12–17; Mark 26:14–16.
and Martha. Mary anointed the Savior. Jesus visited the 11:15–19.
His feet with oil. temple and then returned
See John 12:1–3. to Bethany.
See Zechariah 9:9; Matthew
21:1–11; Mark 11:1–11.

EASTER WEEK
Y ou can prepare for Easter
by learning about what
happened during the week
before Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion
and Resurrection. Starting eight
days before Easter, read the
events and scripture verses
listed for each day.

24 F r i e n d
 

WEDNESDAY
4 THURSDAY
3 FRIDAY
2 SATURDAY
1
The scriptures do not say Jesus’s disciples got ready Jesus was taken to the high Jesus’s body lay in the tomb.
what Jesus did on this day. for the Passover meal. During priest, Caiaphas. Jesus’s A large stone was put in
He may have spent the day the meal, Jesus told the disciple Peter denied that front of the door. The wicked
with His disciples. You could disciples that one of them he knew Him. Jesus was priests asked Pilate to have
read the parable of the ten would betray Him. Then, to questioned by the governor, guards stand outside the
virgins, a story Jesus taught help them remember Him, Pilate, and by the king, tomb to make sure no one
to His disciples to help them He gave them the sacrament Herod. He was condemned went inside.
prepare for His Second for the first time. Jesus to die on the cross. Jesus was See Matthew 27:57–66.
Coming. went to the Garden of crucified. A rich man named
See Matthew 25:1–13. Gethsemane to suffer for Joseph laid Jesus in his tomb.
our sins and to pray to God. Jesus’s mother, Mary, and
People came with swords and Mary Magdalene visited the
arrested Him. The disciples tomb.
ran away in fear. See Matthew 26:57–72; 27:1–2,
See Matthew 26:17–29, 36–56. 27–37; Luke 23:44–46, 50–56.

EASTER SUNDAY
Jesus was resurrected! He
had risen from the tomb. An
angel descended from heaven
and rolled away the stone.
Jesus told His disciples to teach
and baptize others and prom-
ised to always be with them.
See Matthew 28.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW REIER; TOP, FROM LEFT: JESUS

GOES OUT TO BETHANY IN THE EVENING, BY JAMES TISSOT;
CHRIST’S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM, BY HARRY
ANDERSON © IRI; HEALING OF THE BLIND MAN, BY HARRY
ANDERSON, COURTESY OF PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING, INC.,
MAY NOT BE COPIED; THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN, BY JAMES
TISSOT; DETAIL FROM FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE, BY WALTER
RANE, COURTESY OF CHURCH HISTORY MUSEUM; CHRIST IN
GETHSEMANE, BY HARRY ANDERSON © IRI; DETAIL FROM
THE CRUCIFIXION, BY HARRY ANDERSON © IRI; THE BURIAL
OF CHRIST, BY CARL HEINRICH BLOCH, USED BY PERMISSION
OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC MUSEUM AT FREDERIKSBORG IN
HILLERØD, DENMARK, MAY NOT BE COPIED; BOTTOM: HE IS
RISEN, BY DEL PARSON

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