1.) Beginning with the Triumphal Entry on the Sunday before the Passover (John 21. 12, 13), it ends with the Agony in the Garden about midnight on Thursday (Matt. 26. 36); thus embracing strictly but five days.
2.) It is related in all the gospels, John alone adding the teaching given at the Last Supper (John 13-17).
3.) All the events of this period took place in or near Jerusalem.
4.) This was the last call of Christ to the Jews of Jerusalem, and his final rebuke for their rejection of his ministry.
6. =The Day of the Crucifixion.= The most important day in all earth's history was that when Jesus died upon the cross. It is also the day whose events are narrated more fully than any other in the Bible annals. Therefore we study it apart from the rest of the week as a separate period.
1.) It begins with the Arrest (Matt. 26. 47), soon after midnight, Friday A. M., the day of the Passover, and ends at about sunset of the same day with the Burial (Matt. 27. 59, 60).
2.) Each gospel adds its portion to the account, that of John, an eye-witness of all the events, being the most complete.
3.) The events took place in Jerusalem; but few, if any, of the localities are known with certainty.
4.) In the scenes of this day we see Jesus as the suffering Saviour, bearing the sins of the world.
7. Last of all come =The Forty Days of Resurrection=.
1.) From the Resurrection, early on the first Easter Sunday (Matt. 28. 1-8), to the Ascension, forty days afterward (Acts 1. 1-3).
2.) All the gospels give accounts of the appearances of the risen Saviour, but Luke alone tells the story of his Ascension (Luke 24. 50, 51; Acts 1. 9-11).
3.) The manifestations of Christ after his Resurrection took place in and near Jerusalem, near the village of Emmaus (Luke 24. 13), and in Galilee (Matt. 28. 16; John 21. 1).
4.) During this period the visible revelation of Christ was not constant, but occasional; to his disciples only, never to his enemies; and of a spiritual body, which was freed from the restraints of the flesh (Mark 16. 12; Luke 24. 31; John 20. 19).
I. =Gen. Asp.= 1. Sh. 2. In Pal. 3 Am. com. peo. 4. Ac.
1. =Th. Ye. Prep.= 1) Bir-Temp. 2) Lu. Mat. Mar. 3) Gal. 4) Long. few inc.
2. =Ye. Obs.= 1) Fir. Foll.-Re. Gal. 2) Jno. 3) Jud. 4) Obs.