Today, I’m going to read the account of that first Holy Thursday from the Gospel of Mark. However, this story is also found in the Gospel of John with some extra details that I’ll be talking about today. I’ll give you references as I get to those sections. But first, here’s our text for today from Mark, Chapter 14 (10-26, NLT): Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests to arrange to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted when they heard why he...
Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. 4 They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb...
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go to prepare the Passover meal for you?” 13 So Jesus sent two of them into Jerusalem with these instructions: “As you go into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 At the house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with...
Today, we begin a journey through the last 24 hours of Jesus’ earthly life. As many have witnessed, it was 24 hours that absolutely changed the world… Where once there was a void of love, now LOVE entered in… Where once we were unable to relate to God, now we can walk closely with our Creator through faith… Do we need reminders that this has happened—reminders of what God did for us through his Son, Jesus? Well, in short: Yes! We’re human beings! And, because we are, redundancy is a...
