When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the first day of the week, he entered the temple. The market place in the Lord's house was completely inappropriate, since the temple was consecrated and devoted to the worship of God. INTRODUCTION: At the end of the second day, Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and returned to the Mount of Olives (Mark 11:19; Luke 21:37).
Thus Jesus proved the resurrection and immortality of the soul from the law of the Old Testament.
L ESSON 4
THE SEVEN WOES
The scribes and Pharisees traveled land and sea to make one proselyte (a convert to the Jewish religion), but what happened to the proselyte because of the influence of the scribes and Pharisees. The Pharisees made a mockery of oaths by making foolish distinctions about the sanctity of the objects invoked in the oath.
L ESSON 5
THE SUDDENNESS OF THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST (Matt
What will happen when two men are in the field and when two women are grinding in the mill.
JUDGMENT AND THE SEPARATION OF THE SHEEP AND GOATS (Matt
Those on the left did not give Jesus food, drink, shelter or clothing, nor did they visit him when he was sick or in prison (Matthew 25:42-43). They will ask when they saw Jesus in any of these states, and his answer will be, because they did not do it to one of these, they did not do it for him.
L ESSON 6
In this prophecy of Zechariah, the value of wages was an insult to the Shepherd and Jehovah God, as it expressed the contempt of the people for all that God had done for them. The celebration of the Passover began on the 14th day of the month of Nisan (corresponding to our March/April), the first month of the Jewish religious year, and was followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:4-6). . Because the Slaughter of the Lamb, the Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were so closely related, they were considered one feast, and the names Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were used to describe the eight-day celebration.
While the Jews counted their days from sunset to sunset, the slaughter of the lamb took place near the end of the 14th day of Nisan. Although it was not necessary to remove the leaven from the houses until the night the lamb was slaughtered, the Jews began searching for leaven the night before the 14th to ensure that all traces of leaven were removed. On the fifth day (Thursday), the 14th day of Nisan, Jesus ordered two of his disciples to prepare the Passover meal.
Then the lamb was roasted and the other food was also prepared: unleavened bread and bitter herbs (Ex. 12:8). He told them to follow the man to the house he entered and tell the master of the house that the Teacher needed a place to celebrate the Passover (Luke 22:9-11). The Passover festival commemorated the time when the Lord passed over the houses of the Hebrews and killed the firstborn of Egypt, and the subsequent deliverance of Israel from Egyptian slavery.
L ESSON 7
Judas knew where to find Jesus because Jesus often walked in the garden with his disciples. In addition to the Roman soldiers there were officers and temple police from the Sanhedrin. Kissing was a common form of greeting between friends, but Judas' kiss was his sign to the soldiers and temple police whom to arrest.
The high priest's servant slapped him across the face with an open palm. Houses in Palestine were built in the shape of a square or rectangle with an open courtyard in the center. There was a door or gate opening from the street and leading through a passage called a porch into the courtyard.
In the porch there was a staircase that led to the second floor, or if there was no second floor, to the roof. John, who was known to the high priest, spoke to the girl who was guarding the door, and Peter was then also allowed to enter. He went into the courtyard and joined the servants warming themselves by the fire.
L ESSON 8
From that day forward, the Jewish rulers planned to put Jesus to death (John 11:53). As high priest and president of the Sanhedrin, Caiaphas presided over proceedings that were all illegal under Jewish law. Jesus was sworn (sworn) so that the council could compel him to testify against himself.
The morning session of the Sanhedrin was held on a feast day, and the sentence was again pronounced without waiting the required interval of at least one day. When it was spelled out, it was a violation of the Mosaic Law to hide the truth. Jesus was therefore forced to confess that he was the Son of God and be judged (falsely) for blasphemy, or remain silent and be in violation of the Law of Moses.
From the time of Jesus' death onward, the Jewish rulers witnessed the manifestation of Jesus' power—the miracles that occurred at his death, his resurrection, the spread of the gospel, and the destruction of Jerusalem. In Jewish law, the penalty for blasphemy against God's name was death by stoning. With this, the congregation condemned Jesus to death and committed the following acts against him: (Mark 14:65).
L ESSON 9
The Jews could sentence Jesus to death, but only the Roman governor had the authority to administer the death penalty. When the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the judgment hall (Praetorium), Pilate went out to the crowd and asked what accusations they had against Jesus. Herod was in Jerusalem like Pilate for the Passover, but unlike Pilate, Herod came to please the Jews by showing respect for the festival.
This should have ended the trial, but the Jews continued to make accusations against Jesus. When Pilate reminded the Jews that it was the custom to release a prisoner during the Passover, they demanded that he be released, not Jesus, but. In another attempt to release Jesus, Pilate flogged him, perhaps hoping that this punishment would arouse pity in the Jews who flogged him, perhaps hoping that this punishment would arouse pity in the Jews and appease them.
Since Pilate was still determined to release Jesus, the Jews then accused Pilate of disloyalty to Caesar, saying that anyone who works for. As a last resort, the Jews accused Pilate of disloyalty to the emperor if he released Jesus. Pilate then washed his hands of himself and tried to shift the responsibility for the death of an innocent man to the Jews.
L ESSON 10
In this symbolic prophecy, thirty pieces of silver was the shameful value of the payment for Israel's shepherd, and the Lord told the prophet to throw it to the potter. The prophet obeyed and threw the money "to the potter in the house of the Lord". The name comes from the belief that the shape of the hill resembles a skull, or that there were so many executions at this place that many skulls were present.
Pilate ordered the following inscription, written in three languages, to be placed on the cross above Jesus' head: JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS. Pilate acceded to the demands of the Jewish rulers, but gave Jesus the title of king that they had imposed. The title was right, for Jesus was in fact the spiritual king of the Jews.
Pilate placed a sign on the cross with the inscription, JESUS OF NAZARETH KING OF THE JEWS. One of the thieves also mocked Jesus, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us." The second thief rebuked the first, asking him if he did not fear God, because they (the two robbers) had been justly punished, but this man (Jesus) had done nothing wrong. There was a great earthquake that broke the stones and opened the tombs, where the bodies of the saints came out of their tombs after the resurrection of Jesus and appeared to many people.
L ESSON 11
Fearing that the disciples would steal the body and then claim He had risen, the rulers asked Pilate for a guard at the tomb. Late on Friday afternoon before sunset - the Day of Preparation - Jesus was taken down from the cross and laid in the new tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea. Early Sunday morning - the first day of the week - Jesus got up and left the tomb.
Jesus was therefore raised after three days. He lay in the grave a whole day and part of two days. Early on the first day of the week after Jesus' crucifixion and burial, the women came to the tomb and brought sweet spices to anoint his body. As they wondered who would roll away the heavy stone from the entrance to the tomb, they discovered that the stone had already been rolled away and the body of Jesus was gone.
And this despite the fact that the tomb was sealed and a clock was set up to protect it. After the women left the empty tomb early in the morning, Peter and John arrived at the scene when Mary Magdalene told them that the tomb was empty. The evidence was overwhelming – the tomb was open, the body was gone, and the burial clothes were in order.
L ESSON 12
SEVEN DISCIPLES AT THE SEA OF GALILEE (John 21:1-14)
When they answered no, He told them to cast their net on the right side of the boat. When the disciple whom Jesus loved told Peter that it was the Lord, what did Peter do. When Jesus told the disciples to bring the fish to the land, how many fish.
L ESSON 13
THE NINTH APPEARANCE (I Cor. 15:7)
Sometime after Jesus' appearance on the mountain to the disciples and perhaps the 500, the disciples returned to Jerusalem. Taking his disciples with him to the Mount of Olives, he ascended into heaven where he sat at the right hand of God (Mark 16:19).
THE TENTH APPEARANCE AND ASCENSION (Mark 16:19-20; Luke 24:44-53;