Jesus+-+Death+and+Resurrection

=Jesus - Death and Resurrection=

Summary:
** __Last Days in Jerusalem (page 388-394):__ ** Jesus and his disciples make their way into Jerusalem. Jesus then kicks out the people buying and selling things in a temple saying that it is ‘his home’ but they have made it a ‘den of thieves’. While Passover was approaching, Satan entered Judas and began plotting how to kill Jesus. When Passover had come, during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Jesus and his disciples drank the wine and ate the bread, symbolizing Jesus’ blood and body. That same evening Peter says to Jesus, "Assuredly, I say to you that today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." In Gethsemane, Judas attempts to kiss Jesus. After they arrested him, he was brought to the high priest's house and Peter followed behind. Peter then denied Jesus not once, but twice- and in the middle of his third denial, the rooster crowed and the Lord turned and looked at Peter, who ran away and wept. Before the council, Jesus is mocked and questioned about if he is really the the Christ, and Jesus says, "If I tell you, you will by no means believe me. And if I also ask you, you will by no means answer me or let me go. Hereafter, the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the power of God." Judas, having betrayed Jesus, saw that he had been condemned and tried to bribe the chief priests to no avail and went and hanged himself. Jesus was then brought before the Pilate, and accused of not paying taxes to Caesar claiming that he is Christ. Soon, the Pilate realizes that he is under Herod's jurisdiction, and passes him on to Herod. Herod treated him with contempt and mocked him. It is decided that he will be chastised and released. Barabbas was released and Jesus was condemned to crucifixion. A crown of thorns was put on Jesus' head and beat him up, mocking him. He was crucified. At the ninth hour, Jesus cried "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The body of Jesus was taken, wrapped in linen, and laid in a tomb of rock.

**__Saint Judas (page 397):__** When he went to kill himself, he saw a man being beaten up. He dropped his rope and help the man in his arms.
**__The Making of The Cross (page 403-404):__** A fir tree was brought from the hills, split with a wedge, hew with the adze and left to season. Then was shaped into a cross.
 * __ From Barabbas (page 410-415): __** At the hanging, there was Mary, Jesus' mother, Mary Magdalene, Veronica, Simon of Cyrene, and Joseph of Arimathea.There was another man, named Barabbas. He was standing on the gallows-hill watching the man on the middle cross. He didn't want to be there because it was unclean. "What was he doing at Golgotha, he who had been released?" Barabbas did not like the man in the middle cross and had felt there was something odd about him. He thought, "Not that it concerned him- but how could they pass a sentence like that? It was obvious he was innocent." He stayed standing, and a guard shoved him questioning why he was still there if he was free. The women was on the brink of tears, but not crying. She didn't grieve or look at him the same way as others, so Barabbas decided it was Jesus' mother. At night Barabbas heard the crucified man call out "My God, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?" and it was horrible. Barabbas was afraid. Once it was all over, and the man was dead, Barabbas decided to leave, but the mother stood unable to express her sorrow. One of the women pointed out Barabbas to the mother, and she gave him a 'helpless and reproachful" look that he knew he could never forget. He walked to the tomb and stood there, but did not pray. Then he went in to Jerusalem.
 * __ The Tomb is Empty (page 416-418): __** On Sunday, the women came to the tomb, bring prepared spices, but found the stone rolled away from the tomb. They recalled Jesus saying in Galilee, "The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again." They returned to the original 11 disciples (minus Judas who committed suicide), and told them everything. Then Cleopas told them of a vision he had, had in which angels said Jesus was alive. Later, the disciples gather and said "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" Jesus himself stood in the middle of them and said, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all of Moses and the prophets and the psalms concerning me," and continued on with, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer ad rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high." Then he blessed them, and continued on to heaven.

Discussion Questions:
1) What are some visual images that you thought of while reading, "The Making of the Cross"? How did this effect your thoughts about Earth and nature? 2) How did Saint Judas banished from the heavens? What would you have done if you saw someone beaten and stripped? 3) Why do you think "Barabbas" thought the crucified man looked like a boy? What do you picture when he describes the man? 4)Do you think Barabbas felt guilty?

Supplementary Material:
1) How does **__//Saint Judas//__** differ from **//__The Making of the Cross__//**? Do they possibly have the same meaning? 2) In **//__The Tomb is Empty, From Barabbas,__//** and **//__Last Days in Jerusalem,__//** do you think that each story may be portraying Jesus Christ and/or God in the same way? Why or why not?

Outside Material:
This painting of the crucifixion by Matthias Grunewald (1470 - 1528) was part of a complex altarpiece in the hospital chapel at the monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, Alsace . His aim was to provide a sermon in pictures. He seeks to bring home to us the horrors of the suffering of the crucified [|Christ] . Grunewald has painted the most painful representation of Christ’s death, his altarpiece also has the most sensational image of resurrection. He takes us into another world, conveying the transfiguration of the body of Christ. We see Christ soaring out from the tomb and already ascending to the heights of heaven.

Study Guide/Quiz Questions:
1) When "Saint Judas" went to kill himself, what did he see hoodlums doing to a man? 2) In the story **//__The Tomb Is Empty__//** on page 416, what were the names of the men and women who told things to apostles? 3) What is the Feast of the Unleavened Bread called? 4) How many apostles were there? 5 On page 393, Who does it say is the father of Alexander and Rufus? 6) In the story **//__From Barabbas,__//** what were they hung on?