PART 1: Jesus Teaches at the Temple Jesus continues teaching in the temple, offering wisdom that would shape the faith of generations to come. This is day ‘3’ of being in His Father’s house. Among the lessons Jesus taught in the temple, include: As you recount the stories and moments of Holy Week, these scenes…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Monday – Jesus Teaches at the Temple and Mary’s devotion →
As Jesus entered the temple, expecting a place of reverence and prayer, He was met with chaos—animals bleating, merchants shouting, and money changers cheating the poor. This was no place of worship. Jesus saw it for what it was—it had become a marketplace, corruption invading His Father’s house of worship. The animals being sold for…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Sunday – Cleansing of the Temple →
On this special Sunday, before sunrise, while the sky was still dark, the earth shook and an angel of the Lord descended, rolling back the massive heavy stone sealing Jesus’ tomb and sat upon it. The Roman soldiers were paralyzed with fear and fell to the earth. When they recovered, they fled. (Matthew 27:1, John…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Sunday-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ →
On Tuesday, Jesus teaches in the temple for the last time, marking day four of His time spent at the Temple in Jerusalem. (Just like the lambs who have spent 4 days living in the homes of the families). This morning, Judas agrees to betray Jesus to the Pharisees for thirty pieces of silver—the price…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Tuesday – Last Supper, Gethsemane and Betrayal →
To begin, I teach: And on the first day, God created the earth! He divided the land from the sea and formed the firmament above. He created animals and fish and birds and trees and made the world beautiful! Then on the 6th day, He created us! In His own likeness and image. And then…He…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Saturday -Triumphant Entry →
After the burial of Jesus on Wednesday before 6pm, the following three days were filled with traditions, sacred observances, and deep spiritual significance. “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of…
