Holy Week With Jesus in 8 Days

¹ As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent out two disciples,

² saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

³ If anyone questions you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

⁴ This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

⁵ “Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

⁶ So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.

⁷ They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.

⁸ A massive crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

⁹ The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

¹⁰ When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

¹¹ The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

²⁰ Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

²¹ They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

²² Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.

²³ But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

²⁵ Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

²⁶ If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

²⁷ Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

²⁸ Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

²⁹ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.

³⁰ In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.

³¹ Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

³² And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”

³³ He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.

³⁴ The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

³⁵ Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

¹ When Jesus had finished saying all these things, He told His disciples,

² “You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

³ At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

⁴ and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

⁵ “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

⁶ While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,

⁷ a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.

⁸ When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?

⁹ This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”

¹⁰ Aware of this, Jesus asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

¹¹ The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

¹² By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

¹³ Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

¹⁴ Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

¹⁵ and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

¹⁶ So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

¹ It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

² The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

³ Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

⁴ So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

⁵ After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

⁶ He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

⁸ “Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹ “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”

¹⁰ Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”

¹¹ For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹² When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?

¹³ You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

¹⁴ So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

¹⁵ I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

¹⁶ Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

¹⁷ If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

¹⁸ I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

¹⁹ I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.

²⁰ Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”

¹⁴ When the hour had come, Jesus reclined at the table with His apostles.

¹⁵ And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

¹⁶ For I tell you that I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

¹⁷ After taking the cup, He gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves.

¹⁸ For I tell you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes.”

¹⁹ And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

²⁰ In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

²¹ Look! The hand of My betrayer is with Mine on the table.

²² Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”

²³ Then they began to question among themselves which of them was going to do this.

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

² The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

³ And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

⁴ Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

⁵ When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

⁶ As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

⁷ “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”

⁸ When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

⁹ and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.

¹⁰ So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”

¹¹ Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”

¹² From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”

¹³ When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.

¹⁴ It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”

¹⁵ At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.

¹⁶ Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away.

¹⁷ Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

¹⁸ There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹ Pilate also had a notice posted on the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²⁰ Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

²¹ So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but only that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

²² Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

²³ When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

²⁴ So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.

²⁵ Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶ When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

²⁷ Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

²⁸ After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹ A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

³⁰ When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

³¹ It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

³² So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.

³³ But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

³⁴ Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

³⁵ The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

³⁶ Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

³⁷ And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

³⁸ Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.

³⁹ Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.

⁴¹ Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

⁴² And because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus there.

⁵⁷ When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.

⁵⁸ He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

⁵⁹ So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

⁶⁰ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.

⁶¹ Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

⁶² The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.

⁶³ “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

⁶⁴ So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”

⁶⁵ “You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

⁶⁶ So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

¹ On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.

² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

³ but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴ While they were puzzling over this, suddenly two men in radiant apparel stood beside them.

⁵ As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

⁶ He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

⁷ ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’”

⁸ Then they remembered His words.

⁹ And when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.

¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.

¹¹ But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

¹² Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.