Easter Intentional Events: The Events Of Holy Week In Chronological Order

THE EVENTS OF HOLY WEEK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

This man, Jesus, who came into your hands by God’s sure plan and advanced knowledge, you nailed to a cross and killed in collaboration with lawless outsiders.

Acts 2:23, 24 VOICE

1. THE EVENTS OF PALM SUNDAY – PRAISING JESUS

The next day the huge crowd that had arrived for the Feast heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem. They broke off palm branches and went to meet him. And they cheered: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in God’s name! Yes! The King of Israel! Jesus got a young donkey and rode it….

John 12:12-14 MP

2. THE EVENTS OF MAUNDY THURSDAY - BETRAYING JESUS

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 26:14,15 NLT

3. THE EVENTS OF GOOD FRIDAY – REJECTING JESUS

• THE TRIALS OF JESUS

Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.

John 19:1 GW

Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, “I’m bringing him out to let you know that I don’t find this man guilty of anything.” Jesus went outside. He was wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cape. Pilate said to the Jews, “Look, here’s the man!” When the chief priests and the guards saw Jesus, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”

John 19:4-6a GW

• THE DENIAL OF JESUS

Cursing and swearing, Peter denied Him again. “I do not know Him!” As the exclamation left his mouth, a rooster crowed. And Peter remembered. He remembered that Jesus had…said, “This very night, before the rooster crows in the morning, you will deny Me three times.” And Peter went outside, sat down on the ground, and wept.

Matthew 26:74, 75 VOICE

• THE MOCKING OF JESUS

They dressed him in a purple robe, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head. Then they saluted him and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!” And they struck him on the head with a reed stick, spit on him, and dropped to their knees in mock worship.

Mark 15:17-19 NLT

• THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS

So the soldiers took Jesus. He carried his own cross and went out of the city to a location called The Skull. (In Hebrew this place is called Golgotha.) The soldiers crucified Jesus and two other men there. Jesus was in the middle. Pilate wrote a notice and put it on the cross. The notice read, “Jesus from Nazareth, the king of the Jews.”

John 19:16b-19 GW

4. THE EVENTS OF EASTER SUNDAY – DISCOVERING JESUS

“Reach out and touch Me. See the punctures in My hands; reach out your hand, and put it to My side; leave behind your faithlessness, and believe.” “You are the one True God and Lord of my life.”

John 20:27, 28 VOICE

GOD’S INTENT IN ORCHESTRATING THE EASTER EVENTS

• GOD INTENDED TO PARDON ME.

While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. “Take and eat it,” he said; “this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them. “Drink it, all of you,” he said; “this is my blood, which seals God's covenant, my blood poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 26:26-28 GNT

• GOD INTENDED TO EMPOWER ME.

I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead…

Ephesians 1:19, 20a NLT

• GOD INTENDED TO GIVE ME A PURPOSE.

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Romans 6:3, 4 NIV

He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…

John 1:11, 12 NIV