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Why Study the Holy week?

Holy Week Study

Palm Sunday - The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

Jesus Enters Jerusalem
               Matthew 21:1–11;
Jesus Predicts His Death
               John 12:20–36
Jesus Visits the Temple
               Matthew 21:14–17

Things to meditate on:

- Who is Jesus?
- What are the claims he is making about kingship and what implicationsdo they have on our life?

Disruption Monday — The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

Jesus Curses a Fig Tree
Matthew 21:18–19
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Matthew 21:12–13

Things to meditate on:

- What disruptions is God placing in your life and what do you think they communicate about his kingdom?
- What do you see that you may not be believing about his Lordship?

Entrapment Tuesday — The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

The Lesson from the Fig Tree
               Matthew 21:20–22
Jesus Teaches in the Temple
               Matthew 21:23–23:39
Jesus Predicts the Future
               Matthew 24–25

Things to meditate on:

- How well do you understand the Christian faith as saved by graced rather than works?

Spy Wednesday — The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

Jesus Continues His Daily Teaching in the Temple
Luke 21:37–38
The Sanhedrin Plots to Kill Jesus
Matthew 26:3–5

Things to meditate on:

- What is your proximity? Spiritually, relationally, emotionally? Are you close or far?

Maundy Thursday — The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

Jesus’ Last Night
               John 13:1–30
Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denials
               John 13:36-38
Jesus and the Disciples Go to Gethsemane, Arrest, and Abandonemnt
               Matthew 26:36–56

Things to meditate on:

- What are ways we are not loving well?
- How does the gospel inform the way we love someone?
- Are there ways that we abandoned God in our lives?

Good Friday — The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

Jesus has an Informal Hearing before Annas
               Matthew 26:57–68
Peter Denies Jesus and the Rooster Crows
               Matthew 26:58, 69–75
Judas Returns the Silver and Hangs Himself
               Matthew 27:3–10
Pilate Questions Jesus and Sends Him to Herod Antipas
               Matthew 27:11–14
Herod Questions Jesus and Sends Him Back to Pilate
               Luke 23:8–12
Jesus Appears before Pilate a Second Time and is Condemned to Die
               Matthew 27:15–26
Jesus is Mocked and Marched to Golgotha
               Matthew 27:27–34
Jesus is Crucified between Two Thieves
               Matthew 27:35–44
Jesus Breathes His Last
               Matthew 27:45–56
Joseph of Arimathea Buries Jesus in a New Tomb
               Matthew 27:57–61

Things to meditate on:

- Is this day good to you?
- Have you placed your trust in Jesus' sacrifice to cover your sins?
- What about Jesus’ final day impacts you the most?
- Was something new? Was something sobering?

Silent Saturday — The Most Important Week in History

Scripture Guide

The Chief Priests and Pharisees Place Guards at the Tomb
Matthew 27:62–66

Things to meditate on:

- Take some time to sit in the silence of this day in anticipation of the resurrection. Meditate on what all God has taught you and think on what he has done.