The Last days of Jesus

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The Last days of Jesus
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Jesus enters Jerusalem

• Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey to show he
  was one of the people not a king on a horse but a
  simple man on a donkey. He sent his disciples to
  find the donkey for him and they found it exactly
  where he had said it would be.

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Palm Sunday

• As Jesus rode past the people in the crowd, they
  waved palm branches at him and laid them at his
  feet. This day became known as Palm Sunday

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Den of Thieves

• Jesus entered the Temple and found people falsely
  selling goods.
• He overturned the tables and shouted, This is
  the house of God and you have turned it into a
  Den of Thieves

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The Last Supper
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Jesus Words

• Jesus sat with his disciples in an Upper Room and
  celebrated His last meal with them.
• He declared that the bread was His body and the
  wine was His blood.
• He also told the others that one of them would
  deny Him 3 times and one of them would betray Him
  with a kiss.

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Garden of Gethsemane

• Jesus went to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane.
• He asked his father, Why are you doing this to
  me?
• Judas then kissed Jesus and he was arrested by
  the Roman guards.

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On Trial

• Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate who said
  he washed his hands of the matter and let the
  people decide who should die. The crowd voted to
  let Barabbus a thief go free and condemned
  Jesus to death.

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Jesus was made to carry his own cross to Calvary.
He walked along the Via Dolorosa having to stop
many times. Some people offered to help him but
Roman Soldiers stopped them. They wanted to see
Jesus suffer because he had claimed to be King of
the Jews.
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On the Cross

• Jesus was nailed to a cross through his wrists
  and his feet.
• He wore a crown of thorns on his head which made
  him bleed. People gathered all around.
• He was crucified with two thieves.

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The End is Near

• A Roman Guard stabbed Jesus in his side and when
  he asked for water, he was given a sponge dipped
  in vinegar.
• This made him more thirsty and was a cruel thing
  to do.

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Good Friday

• All at once the sky turned black and everyone
  knew that Jesus was dead.
• One Roman soldier turned to his friend and said,
  That was the Son of God. He now believed.
• Jesus was taken down from the cross and taken to
  the tomb of a rich man who believed in Jesus as
  the Son of God.

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To the Tomb

• Jesus was wrapped in a shroud and scented with
  sweet oils such as sandalwood. His body was then
  placed in a tomb.
• This tomb was blocked by a large boulder that had
  been rolled in front of the entrance.

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Resurrection

• On the Sunday after Jesus death Mary Magdalene
  went down to the tomb but the stone had been
  moved and the body was not there.
• Mary knelt down and wept.
• She heard a voice behind her asking what was
  wrong

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Jesus is Alive

• it was Jesus!
• He had been brought back to life and told Mary to
  go and tell the disciples.
• Mary was shocked but did as her son asked.
• She set off to find them.

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Ascension

• Jesus spoke to the disciples and then ascended
  into heaven to sit at the right hand of God, His
  father.