Holy Week: Thursday

THURSDAY

Passover meal (Mt. 26:17-29; Mk. 14:12-25; Lk. 22:7-30; Jn. 13:1-38)

Farewell discourse (Jn. 14:1-31)

Gethsemane discourse (Jn. 15, 16)

Priestly Prayer (Jn. 17)

In the garden (Mt. 26:30, 36-46; Mk. 14:26, 32-42; Lk. 22:39-46; Jn. 18:1)

Betrayal/arrest (Mt. 26:47-56; Mk. 14:43-52; Lk. 22:47-53; Jn. 19:2-12)

Before Annas (Jn. 18:12-14, 19-23)

Before Caiaphas (Mt. 26:57, 59-68; Mk. 14:53, 55-65; Lk. 22;54-62; Jn. 18:15-18, 25-27)

Before Sanhedrin (Mt. 27:1; Mk. 15:1; Lk. 22:66-71)

Death of Judas (Mt. 27:3-10)

From Bethany, Jesus sent Peter and John ahead to the Upper Room in Jerusalem to make the preparations for the Passover Feast. That evening after sunset, Jesus washed the feet of His disciples as they prepared to share in the Passover. By performing this humble act of service, Jesus demonstrated by example how believers should love one another.

Then, Jesus shared the feast of Passover with His disciples. As the Lamb of God, Jesus was about to fulfill the meaning of Passover by giving His Himself as our Substitute, freeing us from sin and death. During this Last Supper, Jesus established the Lord’s Supper, or Communion, instructing His followers to continually remember His sacrifice by sharing in the elements of bread and wine.

Later, Jesus and the disciples left the Upper Room and went to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed in agony to God the Father. Late that evening in Gethsemane, Jesus was betrayed with a kiss by Judas Iscariot and arrested by the Sanhedrin. He was taken to the home of Caiaphas, the High Priest, where the whole council had gathered to begin making their case against Jesus.

Meanwhile, in the early morning hours, as Jesus’ trial was getting underway, Peter denied knowing his Master three times before the rooster crowed.