Easter Week in Real Time - Wednesday
Join us each day this week as follow the four gospel accounts of the week leading up to Easter Sunday.
Wednesday
Jesus continues his daily teaching in the temple complex
Luke 21:37–38
37 During the day, he was teaching in the temple, but in the evening he would go out and spend the night on what is called the Mount of Olives. 38 Then all the people would come early in the morning to hear him in the temple. -- Luke 21:37-38 (CSB)
The Sanhedrin plots to kill Jesus
Matt. 26:3–5;
3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas, 4 and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill him. 5 “Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.” -- Matthew 26:3-5 (CSB)
Mark 14:1–2;
THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS
It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill him.
2 “Not during the festival,” they said, “so that there won’t be a riot among the people.” -- Mark 14:1-2 (CSB)
Luke 22:1–2
THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS
The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was approaching.
2 The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the people. -- Luke 22:1-2 (CSB)
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