holy week from passover to the resurrection of Jesus

The week following passover to the day that we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is typcially called Passion Week. So you ask, What is Passion Week? See www.gotquestions.org for this and more info...

Answer: Passion Week (also known as Holy Week) is the time from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday). Passion Week is so named because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross in order to pay for the sins of His people. Passion Week is described in Matthew chapters 21-27; Mark chapters 11-15; Luke chapters 19-23; and John chapters 12-19. Passion Week begins with the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday on the back of a colt as prophesied in Zechariah 9:9.

Passion Week includes events such as:
Jesus cleansed the Temple for the second time (Luke 19:45-46)
His Olivet Discourse on the end times and other things. (Matt. 24-25)
Jesus ate His Last Supper with His disciples in the upper room (Luke 22:7-38)
In the Garden of Gethsemane, that Jesus, having been betrayed by Judas, was arrested and taken to several sham trials before the chief priests, Pontius Pilate, and Herod (Luke 22:54-23:25).

Following the trials, Jesus was scourged at the hands of the Roman soldiers, then was forced to carry His own instrument of execution (the Cross) through the streets of Jerusalem along what is known as the Via Dolorosa (way of sorrows). Jesus was then crucified at Golgotha on the day before the Sabbath, was buried and remained in the tomb until Sunday, the day after the Sabbath, and then gloriously resurrected.

Jesus' overwhelming, all consuming Passion is the example for our lives and the answer for our eternity. How can you pause this week to thank God for sending His Son, Jesus Christ to earth? In what ways can you and your spouse or family remember Passion Week? How do you plan on praying with your kids about good Friday and Easter? -casey