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For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:4) In Genesis 8, we read about the end of Noah’s experience in the ark. For more than a year, Noah and his passengers endured all the trials and tribulations that you might imagine would arise in such a situation. When the day came, however, for Noah and company to relieve the ark, his first inclination was not ...

  SATURDAY Women at tomb (Mt. 27:61; Mk. 15:47; Mk. 23:55, 56) Guard (Mt. 27:62-66) Jesus' body lay in its tomb, where it was guarded by Roman soldiers throughout the day on Saturday, which was the Sabbath. When the Sabbath ended at 6 p.m., Christ's body was ceremonially treated for burial with spices purchased by Nicodemus: Nicodemus, like Joseph of Arimathea, was a member of the Sanhedrin, the court that had condemned Jesus Christ to death. For a time, both ...

  FRIDAY Before Pilate (Mt. 27:2, 11-14; Mk. 15:1-5; Lk. 23:1-5; Jn. 18:28-38) Before Herod (Lk. 23:6-12) Return to Pilate (Mt. 27:15-26; Mk. 15;6-15; Lk. 23:13-25; Jn. 18:39-19;16) Mockery (Mt. 27:27-30; Mk. 15:16-19) To Calvary (Mt. 27:31-34; Mk. 15:20-23; Lk. 23:26-32; Jn. 19:16, 17) Crucifixion (Mt. 27: 35-56; Mk. 15:24-41; Lk. 23:33-49; Jn. 19:18-30) Burial (Mt. 27:57-60; Mk. 15:42-46; Lk. 23:50-54; Jn. 19:31-42) Good Friday is the most difficult day of Holy Week. Christ's journey turned treacherous and acutely painful ...

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 ...

WEDNESDAY The Bible doesn't say what the Lord did on the Wednesday of Passion Week. Scholars speculate that after two exhausting days in Jerusalem, Jesus and his disciples spent this day resting in Bethany in anticipation of Passover. Just a short time previously, Jesus had revealed to the disciples that He had power over death by raising Lazarus from the grave. After seeing this miracle, many people in Bethany believed that Jesus was the Son of God and put their ...