The Anointing of Jesus

Jesus Arrested

When Jesus finished praying, he left with his follows and came to the Kidron Valley. On the other side of it was a garden, and they all went in.

Judas, who was a backstabber, knew where Jesus was because Jesus went there a lot with his followers. Judas brought soldiers and officials from the pastors and the Pharisees. They took torches and weapons with them to the garden.

Jesus, knew what was going to happen so he went and confronted them and asked them, “Who are you looking for?”

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they said back.

“That’s me,” Jesus answered. (Judas was standing with the crowd). When Jesus told them that he was Jesus of Nazareth, they moved back and fell to the ground.

Then he asked them again, “Who are you looking for?”

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they said.

Jesus told them, “I said that I am Jesus of Nazareth, if you are looking for me, the let my followers go.” He did this so that his word would be carried on. “I haven’t lost any of those that you gave to me.”

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, cut the Pastor’s servant’s right ear off. (The servant’s name was Malchus).

Jesus told Peter, “Put your sword away! Should i not drink from the cup that the Father gave me?”

Then the soldiers with the leader and the Jewish officials arrested. They cuffed him and brought him to Annas, who was the step-dad of Caiaphas, the pastor that year. Caiaphas was the one who said that it would be good for one man to die for the people.

Peter’s First Denial

Simon Peter and another follower were following Jesus. Because this follower was known to the pastor, he went with Jesus into the pastor’s courtyard, but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other follower, who was known to the pastor, came back, spoke to the servant girl on duty and brought Peter in.

“You aren’t one of this man’s followers too, are you?” she asked Peter.

He replied, “Nope.”

It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.

The High Priest Questioned Jesus

Meanwhile, the pastor questioned Jesus about his followers and his teaching.

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in churches or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”

When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby slapped him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the pastor?” he demanded.

“If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “tell me what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you hit me?” Then Annas sent him in chains to Caiaphas the pastor.

Peter’s Second and Third Denials

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself. So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his followers too, are you?”

He denied it, saying, “Nope.”

One of the pastor’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?” Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.

Jesus Before Pilate

Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the huge house of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid breaking the rules they did not enter the huge house, because they wanted to be able to eat the Jewish holiday. So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”

“If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

“But we have no right to kill anyone,” they said. This took place to carry out what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.

Pilate then went back inside the huge house, called for Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

“Is that your idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”

“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and pastors handed you over to me. What did you do?”

Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”

“You are a king, then!” said Pilate.

Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

“What is truth?” questioned Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no reason for a charge against him. But it is your choice for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Jewish holiday. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”

They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in a riot.

Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.

Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe,Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

As soon as the pastors and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no reason for a charge against him.”

The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, and he went back inside the huge house. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”

Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”

When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which means Gabbatha). It was friday; it was about noon.

“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.

But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”

“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.

“We have no king but Caesar,” the pastors answered.

Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

So the soldiers took Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (Or, Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

Pilate had a letter prepared and placed to the cross. It read: Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. The pastors of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four piles, one for each of them, with the underwear remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”

This happened that the scripture might be carried out that said,

“They divided my clothes among them

   and cast lots for my garment.”

While Jesus was speaking, Judas arrived. Judas brought with him an armed mob that was sent by the church people. Judas was going to signal them, so he told them, “You’re going to arrest the man that I kiss.” Judas walked over to Jesus and said to him, “Hello, teacher!” and then Judas kissed him.

Jesus then said to him, “Continue doing what you came for, Judas.”

Then some guy stepped out from the crowd and arrested Jesus. Then all of a sudden one of Jesus’ friends got his sword and cut the servant of the high priest ear off!

Then Jesus said to Judas, “Put that sword away! Anyone who uses their sword will die with it. Do you think i can’t just say, ‘“Hey father can  I get some back up,”’ and he will not give me thousands or angels? But how would the books be filled that would say how things work around here?”

Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I really leading this protest, that you really feel that you need to capture me with these weapons? Everyday i go to church teaching you guys, and you repay me by arresting me. But this is only happening so the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled.” Then all of Jesus’ friends left him.

When they had arrested Jesus they had taken him to this place called calphas, where the priest was and so were the judges and attorneys, but Peter had been secretly  following Jesus from a distance, until the courtyard of the priest. He then went inside and sat down with the guards to watch.

The chief priests and the san bendrin who were looking to plant false evidence to use against Jesus so they could sentence  im with the death penalty. But they couldn’t get any even though they had many witnesses who had lied.

Finally two witnesses came forward and said, “This dude said to us that he could destroy the church and then build it again in 3 days.”

And then the priest said, “Why aren’t you answering? What are these men trying to say against you?” But Jesus did not say anything.

Then the priest said to Jesus, “I command you in the name of God to tell me if you are really a prophet you know like the son of God.”

“ You said it.” Jesus answered. “But from now on you will see me chilling right next to God coming down on the clouds of heaven.”

Then the priest ripped his clothes and said, “He is lying! why would we need any more witnesses when he is clearly crazy? What do you think?”

“He deserves the death penalty!” They responded.

Then they spit on Jesus’ face and punched and slapped him while saying “Prove that you’re you a prophet by telling us who hit you.”

Peter was chilling in the courtyard, then this girl went up to him and said, ‘You’re the one who came wit Jesus from Galilee.”

But then Peter denied Jesus in front of everyone saying, “What are you talking about?”

Then he walked out the gateway where another girl saw him and said to everyone, “That guy was with Jesus.”

But still denied Jesus while swearing to God saying, “I don’t even know that dude.”

A little later, The people around Peter said, “We know you’re with Jesus, we can tell by your accent.

The Peter got furious, and swore to them, “I don’t know him!”

The a rooster crowed. Peter the remembered what Jesus said to him, “Before you hear a rooster crow you will reject me three times.” Then Peter went outside and cried.

Judas Hangs Himself

₁It was early in the morning, and all the priests and elders of the church had plotted on how they were going to have Jesus killed. ₂ So they tied him up, and brought him to Pilate the governor of Rome.

When Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, noticed that Jesus was arrested, Judas felt so awful that he went back to the priest and elders and gave back the money that have been given to him. “I sinned by betrayed an innocent man.”

“What does that have to do with us?” They said. “That’s a you problem.”

Judas gave the money back to them anyways and left. Then he went away and hung himself.

The Priest picked up the money and said, “It’s illegal to put this into the bank, since its bribing money.” So they used the money to buy a potter’s fields to use as a burial place for foreigners. That’s why it is called the Field of Blood to this day. Then the prophecy of Jeremiah was fulfilled: “They took the money, and the people of Israel set the price, and they used the money to buy the Potter’s field, as the Lord told me.”

Jesus Before Pilate

Meanwhile, Jesus standing in front of the governor, and then the governor asked Jesus, “Are you really the King of Jews?”

“You said it,” Jesus replied.

When he was accused by the priest and the elders, He didn’t respond. Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear what they are saying about you?” But Jesus didn’t reply, not a single word---to the amazement of the governor.

It was the governor’s tradition at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. At the time they had coincidentally had a well-known prisoner named Jesus Barabbas. So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which person should i release to you guys? Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilot knew it was self-interest that they handed Jesus over to him.

While Pilate was chilling on his chair, his wife told him: “Don’t do anything to that innocent man, I already had a nightmare today because of him.”

But the priest and the elders of the church had persuaded the crowd to have Barabbas and have Jesus killed instead.

“Then what should I do with Jesus?” Pilate asked.

The crowd then answered, “Crucify him!”

“Why, What did he do?” Pilate asked.

Then they all yelled louder, “Crucify him!”

When Pilate noticed that he was getting nowhere and a rebellion was starting, he washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I don’t want anything to do with this man’s life, That’s your responsibility, not mine!”

The crowd answered, “His life is on us and our children!”

Then he released Barabbas to them. He still had Jesus tortured, and handed him over to be executed.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus to the jail and a whole bunch of soldiers around him. They took off his clothes and put a scarlet robe on him, and then put a crown of thorns on Jesus’ head. They placed a staff in his right hand. Then they bowed to him and mocked and made fun of Jesus. “Hail, The king of Jews!” as they mocked. Then they spit on him over and over. After they mocked him, they took the robe off and put his clothes back on . Then they took him away to be executed.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

As they were leaving, they saw a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus’ cross. They arrived at a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). Then they offered Jesus wine mixed with gall, but after tasting it Jesus didn’t want it anymore. When they crucified him, they took of his clothes. They sat down, while keeping watch over him. Above Jesus’ head they put a sign above his head that said “This is Jesus, The King of the Jews.”

Two rebels were also crucified with Jesus, One on botm, shaking their heads saying, “You say that you can destroy the temple and build it in three days, now save yourself!” If you’re really the Son of God, Get of the cross!” The priest and elders were mocking Jesus in the same way as well. “He can save others, but he can’t even save himself! He is the king of Israel for crying out loud! Let him hop of that cross and then we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God save him, i mean he is the Son of God, right?” Then the rebels that were crucified with Jesus started to insult him too.

The Death of Jesus From twelve o’clock to three o’clock in the afternoon, the land got dark. At about three o’clock in the afternoon, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (Which meant, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

When some of the people heard Jesus say this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah.”

Suddenly, one of them went to get a sponge. He filled it up with wine vinegar, put it on a spear, and gave it to Jesus to drink.

The rest of them said, “Leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah will come and save him.”

When Jesus cried out again in a very loud voice, he died.

At that exact moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. An earthquake started, split rocks and the tombs broke open. The bodies of a lot of holy people that were dead, were raised back to life. They came out of their tombs and went to the city and presented themselves to many people.

When the chief of the soldiers and those with him guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and everything that happened, they were scared to death, and said, “Surely he was the Son of God!”

Many of the women there, watched from a distance. They had been following Jesus since Galilee, caring for Jesus. In the crowd of women were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

The Burial of Jesus

As night came, a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus, went to Pilate and ordered for Jesus’ body. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean expensive cloth, and placed the body in his own new tomb that Joseph had cut out of rock. He rolled a huge stone in front of the entrance and left. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting across from where the tomb was.

The Guard at the Tomb

The next day, the day after friday, the priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. “Sir,” they said, “we remember that when that liar was still alive he said, ‘After three days i will rise again.’ So make sure that the tomb is guarded until the third day. Otherwise, his followers will take his body and say that he raised from the dead. This will be worse than the first lie.”

Jesus Arrested

Just as Jesus was talking, Judas, who was one of the twelve, arrived. Judas brought with him a mob armed with weapons, sent by the church people, and lawyers. ₃

   Judas made up a signal with the mob and told them, “The man that I kiss is the man you need to arrest and drag away with guards.” Judas went to Jesus quickly and said, “Teacher!” and then Judas kissed him. The mob took and arrested Jesus. Then some random person, that was watching this go down, took out his sword and cut off the ear of the servant of one of the high church members.

“Am I starting a riot,” said Jesus, “that you bring swords and other weapons to arrest me? I was with you every day, teaching you in the church, and you didn't arrest me. But the scripture must be carried out.” Then everyone left Jesus and went away.

A young man, wearing only a piece of cloth, was following Jesus. When they chased him, he ran away naked, leaving his cloth behind.

Jesus Before the Sanhedrin

They took Jesus to the church people, and all of them came together. Peter followed him at a distance, into the church. Then he sat with the guards and warmed himself by the fire.

The priests and the whole council were looking for anything that they could use against Jesus to kill him, but they couldn’t find anything. Many people tried to accuse him falsely, but their accusations didn’t match up.

Then someone stood up and said this false accusation against Jesus: “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this church made with human hands and in three days I will build another one, not made with hands.’” Even then their accusation didn’t match up.

Then the pastor stood up and asked Jesus, “Are you going to answer them? What are they trying to say against you?” Jesus just kept quiet and didn’t answer.

The pastor then asked Jesus again, “Are you the one chosen by God, the Son of God?”

“I am,” said Jesus. “You will see me sitting at the right hand of God and coming on the clouds from heaven.”

The pastor ripped his clothes apart. “Why do we need anymore witnesses?” he asked. “You have heard him lie. What do you think?”

They all punished Jesus to death. Then they spat on Jesus, blindfolded him and started to shout, “Prophesy!” And then the guards took Jesus away and beat him up.

Peter Disowns Jesus

While Peter was in the crowd, one of Pastor’s servants, which was a girl, walked by him. When she looked at him, she had to look very close at him.

“You are with Jesus of Nazareth!”

But Peter lied and said no. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Peter said, and left to the entrance.

When the servant saw him there, she said again, “This guy is one of them!” And again Peter lied and denied it.

After a while, the people standing around Peter said, “You are definitely one of them because you are Galilean!”

Peter began to cuss and swore to the people around him, “I have no idea who this man is.”

Right then and there, the rooster crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will pretend like you don’t know me three times.”

Jesus Before Pilate

Early in the morning, the church members, lawyers, and the whole council made the plans. They tied Jesus up and led him away and gave him to Pilate.

“Are you the kind of Jews?” Pilate asked.

“You have said so,” Jesus replied.

The church members accused Jesus of many things. Pilate again asked, “Are you going to answer? Look at how many things they are accusing you of.”

But Jesus didn’t reply, and Pilate was shocked.

Now it was a tradition at this event to release a prisoner that the people wanted to release. Barabbas was in prison because he murdered someone in an uprising. The crowd had Pilate do what he usually did.

“Do you want me to release to you the king of Jews?” asked Pilate, knowing that they obviously wanted Jesus dead.

But the Pastor made the crowd want Pilate to release Barabbas instead of Jesus.

“Crucify him!” the crowd shouted.

“Why? what has he done?” asked Pilate.

Wanting to ease the crowd, Pilate had Jesus whipped and then handed him over to be crucified.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

The soldiers took Jesus away into the palace and got the rest of the soldiers. They put a purple robe on Jesus, made a crown of thorns and put it on his head. Then they began to shout, “Praise him, the king of Jews!” They hit him with a staff and spat on Jesus multiple times. They then fell on their knees and praised him. And then after mocking him, they took the robe off, put his clothes back on and took him away to be crucified.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

Simon from Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was just passing by on his way in from the country, and then the soldiers forced him to carry the cross. They made Jesus walk to a place called Golgotha, which meant the place of the skull. Then they offered him wine mixed with natural gum, but he didn’t accept it.

Then they crucified him. they divided up his clothes and placed bets to see who would get what.

It was nine in the morning when Jesus was crucified.They wrote what he was accused of and it said, “The King Of Jews.”

They also crucified two other rebels, one on his right and the other on his left. People who passed by Jesus, shook their heads and insulted him saying, “So you’re the man that is going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days? Come down from the cross and save yourself!” The church members mocked him in the same way. “He saved other people,” they said, “but he can’t even save himself! Let this man of God, this King of Israel, come down from the cross, so that we can believe in him.” Even the people that were crucified on both sides of him, insulted him.

The Death of Jesus

At noon,it turned dark until three in the afternoon. When three came, Jesus cried out, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (Which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

Some of the people heard him and said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.”

One of them ran to fill a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a spear, and offered it to jesus to drink. “Leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah will come and save him,” he said.

With a loud scream, Jesus breathed his last breath.

The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. When the leading officer saw how Jesus died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”

Some of the women were watching from afar. Two of the women, were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome. These were the women that followed Jesus and cared for his every needs in Galilee. Many other women were there that also came up with Jesus to Jerusalem.

The Burial of Jesus