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    B12-B

    The Final Week of Jesus’ Life on Earth (Part 2)

    Nisan 12

    SUNSET (Jewish days start and end at sunset)

    SUNRISE

    • Quiet day with disciples

    • Judas arranges betrayal

    SUNSET

    Nisan 13

    SUNSET

    SUNRISE

    • Peter and John prepare for the Passover

    • Jesus and other apostles arrive in late afternoon

    SUNSET

    Nisan 14

    SUNSET

    • Eats the Passover with the apostles

    • Washes the feet of the apostles

    • Dismisses Judas

    • Institutes the Lord’s Evening Meal

    • Betrayed and arrested in the garden of Gethsemane

    • Apostles flee

    • Tried by the Sanhedrin at the house of Caiaphas

    • Peter denies Jesus

    SUNRISE

    • Stands before the Sanhedrin again

    • Taken to Pilate, then to Herod, then back to Pilate

    • Sentenced to death and executed at Golgotha

    • Dies about three o’clock in the afternoon

    • Body removed and buried

    SUNSET

    Nisan 15 (Sabbath)

    SUNSET

    SUNRISE

    • Pilate approves posting guards at Jesus’ grave

    SUNSET

    Nisan 16

    SUNSET

    • Additional burial spices are purchased

    SUNRISE

    • Resurrected

    • Appears to disciples

    SUNSET