In the middle of Wednesday night of Passion Week Jesus was arrested and immediately subjected to an inquisition, first by Annas, the former high priest and ultimate authority of the ruling body of the Jews, and then by a large body of yes-men from the Sanhedrin led by Caiaphas, who was Annas’ son-in-law and the…
In the middle of Wednesday night of Passion Week Jesus was arrested and taken to the palatial estate of the High Priest. He had just hours earlier celebrated the Passover with His disciples in remembrance of the Jewish nation’s deliverance from its bondage in Egypt, and there established the Lord’s Supper for a remembrance of…
In the middle of Wednesday night of passion week after the new day had begun by Jewish reckoning hours earlier and was now turning Thursday by Roman and our own more modern reckoning, Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane and taken to the high priest’s estate. There He was first taken to Annas,…
After celebrating the deliverance of God’s people from their bondage in Egypt on Wednesday evening of Passion week at His last Passover with His disciples Jesus was pressed for the oil of His Holy Spirit in the Garden of Gethsemane. Instead of pursuing His own will to escape the cup of suffering that was before…
After celebrating the Passover with His disciples on Wednesday evening of Passion Week Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane later that night and taken to the palatial estate of the high priest (Luk 22:54). There He was taken first to Annas (Joh 18:13), a puppet master whom the Romans had installed as high…
Because of an ambiguity that sometimes occurs with the sighting of the new moon that marked the start of the month, on Wednesday evening of Passion Week Jesus celebrated the Passover a day earlier than the religious leaders in Jerusalem. This providence of God allowed Him to both establish the Lord’s Supper with its greater…
At Jesus’ last Passover celebration, where bread and wine were shared to commemorate the deliverance of God’s people from their bondage in Egypt, He established the Lord’s Supper, imparting even greater meaning to those elements that typified the even greater salvation from their bondage to sin He was about to accomplish. Matthew records that after…
In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus was seized by a mob sent from the religious leaders and led by Judas. He could easily have escaped, knowing what was coming upon Him, and was sorely tempted to do so, even sweating drops of blood (Luk 22:44). But through prayer He had subjected Himself to the Father…
In the middle of Wednesday night of Passion Week, immediately after surrendering Himself to the Father’s will in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was seized by a mob sent from the religious leaders and led by Judas. However, having failed to keep watch, Peter was not led by the same Holy Spirit of sacrifice that…
In the middle of Wednesday night of Passion week Judas arrived at the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives leading a mob from the Jewish religious leaders to arrest Jesus. He knew where Jesus would be, for He was accustomed to stay there with His disciples during the feasts (Luk 22:39, Joh 18:2).…