Passion Week Flashcards
What events happened on what days during the passion week?
Saturday - Jesus at the home of Simon the leper, the Saturday before his death - He is anointed here
Sunday - His triumphal entry
Monday - Jesus curses the fig tree on the way into Jerusalem, in Jerusalem He clears the temple
Tuesday - The fig tree has withered, He remains in Jerusalem for a good part of the day and debates the leaders: They question him on His authority, etc - When He leaves the temple hs tells His disciples that it will all be torn down - Then He goes to the Mount of Olives and gives the Olivet Discourse (In the synoptic gospels)
Wednesday - We don’t know much about this day
Thursday - A lot happening 1) Disciples sent into town to prepare for the Passover 2) Passover in the upper room 3) Synoptics focus on the inauguration of the Lord’s Supper 4) Jesus goes to the garden
Friday - Filled with interrogations, Jews in the night, Romans during the day, then He is crucified
Saturday - Laying in the tomb
Sunday - Resurrection
How is the Farewell Discourse structured?
- Chapter 14:1 through chapter 16 - Farewell discourse
- ABBA Pattern
- (A) 14:1-31
- Jesus’ departure
- Return
- Giving of the Spirit
- (B) 15:1-17
- Love one another
- Abide in Christ
- Strong emphasis on loving one another
- Love one another
- (B) 15:18-16:4
- Hatred by the world
- The world hates God’s people because it hates Christ
- Hatred by the world
- (A) 16:5-33
- Jesus’ departure
- Return
- Giving of the Spirit
What are the three unique sayings from Jesus on the cross in Luke?
1) “Father, do not hold this sin against them” (Went from Jesus to Stephen, to Paul)
2) “Today will you be with me in paradise”
3) “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit”
What are the three unique sayings from Jesus on the cross in John?
1) “Behold your son, behold your mother”
2) “I thirst” (fulfilling Psalm 69, Jesus longs for His father spiritually)
3) “It is finished” (All sin has been paid for, finished once and for all)
What is the unique saying from Jesus on the cross in Matt/Mark?
“My God, my God why have you forsaken me?”
What were the six trials of Jesus and how did each one take place?
Jesus goes through six trials (3 Jewish and 3 Roman)
- 1) Annas
- Former high priest and father in law of Caiaphas
- He’s abused and taunted
- Not described in the Synoptics
- While he’s standing for the truth inside, Peter is outside lying about who he is
- 2) Sanhedrin at night - Caiaphas
- John describes Jesus taken to Caiaphas, but not much else
- Instead, he focuses on the next event with Pilate
- Described in Matthew and Mark
- Standing on trial in from of the Sanhedrin in the middle of the night
- Caiaphas tears his robes
- In Jewish law, you couldn’t condemn a man to death in the middle of the night
- Also, the Jews couldn’t crucify anyone
- Luke doesn’t describe the tearing of the robe
- He focuses on the events that took place at the break of dawn
- Jesus convicts Himself by claiming to be the son of man
- He focuses on the events that took place at the break of dawn
- John describes Jesus taken to Caiaphas, but not much else
- 3) Sanhedrin at the break of dawn
- 4) Pilate
- He wants to avoid crucifying Jesus
- The first way - He hands him over to Herod because Jesus is from Galilee
- He wants to avoid crucifying Jesus
- 5) Herod Antipas
- He was responsible for killing John the Baptist
- Tetrarch over Galilee
- Luke alone describes this
- 6) Pilate
- He thinks if he has Jesus beaten it will satisfy the Jews
- But it doesn’t and they cry out
- John’s gospel is more detailed about Jesus before Pilate than the synoptic gospels are
- But it doesn’t and they cry out
- He thinks if he has Jesus beaten it will satisfy the Jews
What supernatural events took place while Jesus was on the cross and as he died?
1) Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. (Matthew 27:45)
2) And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. (Matt. 27:51a)
3) And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. (Matt. 27:51b)
4) 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. (Matthew 27:52-53)
