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“With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.” (Mark 15:37) “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” (Luke 23:46) These are the last words of Jesus as recorded in the Bible. This paper looks at the events leading up to Jesus’ death on the cross as well as the controversy caused by the events.
The week that led up to Jesus’ death and the events that occurred during this week are known as the Passion Week. The passion of Jesus is his sufferings between the night of the Last Supper and his death on the cross. Five main events occurred during Passion Week:
• Jesus going to Jerusalem
• Jesus in the Temple
• The Last Supper
• The arrest of Jesus
• Jesus’ interrogation and crucifixion
Sunday: Jesus traveled to Jerusalem on a donkey, which symbolizes humility and peace. Upon his arrival he received a grand welcome with people shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”(Sanders- 252) The people were calling him “King.” He went to Jerusalem to observe the Jewish Passover. This event fulfilled a prophecy in Zechariah, a book in the Old Testament:
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you;
triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey. (Zechariah 9:9)
Some scholars think that either the prophecy created the event or that the prophecy created the story and that the event never occurred. In this case we can not be sure if Jesus acted out a prophecy or if Christian tradition depicted him as doing so. I feel that Jesus really did fulfill the prophecy. He read the prophecy in the Old Testament and decided to do as it was written and ride into Jerusalem on a donkey.
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... preach the word and to heal people. From reading the above text, we can tell that he went through more than any one of us will ever go through and all he was doing was good. It would be hard to imagine what would have happened to Jesus if Jesus would have really done something that was wrong. He took grief throughout his whole ministry, even up into the point where he was hanging on the cross. People were shouting to him, if you are who you say you are then save yourself. He had quite a hard role, but he died for us on the cross, and thank God that he did.
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The Gospel of Matthew is an eyewitness story written for an audience of believers, under great stress, and persecution. Matthew develops a theological plot incorporating genealogy, speeches, parables, inter and intra textual references, common vocabulary, and fulfillment quotations, with a tension that builds as we are invited into the story. The crucifixion and resurrection bring us to a Christological climax that symbolically points beyond its conclusion to God’s Kingdom, bringing atonement, salvation and the ushering in the Eschaton. The extraordinary events surrounding the crucifixion act as commentary, adding important details concerning the death of Jesus.1
The crucifixion periscope is one of the most read and studied stories of the gospels, second only to the story of the resurrection. Luke’s presentation of the darkest day in Christianity is appropriately not as poetic and literary elegant as some of his other writings, yet dramatic. He stresses some common Lukan themes of forgiveness, prayer and universalism.
First off, if Jesus was this big threat to a king and supposed to be the Son of God would not one think that he would go out with a bigger ceremony. I do not think that the king would just hand him among thieves. Second, on the third day he was supposed to move this huge stone and "rise". What is rising anyway did he just magically lift into the air without making a sound and no one seeing him. Or was it more of a fade away into nothing, if that was so why did he move the stone?
The road that Jesus accepted on the way to Calvary had to first pass through the Garden of Gethsemane (גת שמנים olive press in Hebrew). It was here that Jesus, in his humanity, experienced true “fear, distress, anguish, and sorrow.” These emotions which Jesus felt that night were real. According to James Keating and Thomas White, who used Thomas Aquinas, states that Jesus has two natures, human and divine. Both were aching with grief. They explain that all humans have two wills, which are caught in a web of tension. The first will is our sensitive will, which contains our emotions. The second is our rational will where our rational decisions are made. Seeing that Jesus is fully human, he had both of these wills in operation in Gethsemane. In Jesus’ first prayer we see his sensitive will begging his father to find another way. Jesus felt true fear on this level, because no one wants to die. Yet, in Jesus’ second prayer his rational will takes over as he accepts the will of the Father. Within Jesus there is also a divine will. This divine will was also aching, because of humanities many sins. His divine will and rational will conform perfectly, according to Keating and White. Therefore, they surmise that Jesus in his first prayer was being hit with agony from his sensitive and divine wills. Together these two wills overwhelmed Jesus’ rational will. But in the end his rational will overcame his sensitive and his divine wills. Although the intense crisis in the garden that Jesus experienced was not imposed on him by his Father, the experience was necessary. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to unfold the events that occurred in Gethsemane in an attempt to show why it was necessary for Jesus to suffer.
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