Luke 22:7-23 Matthew 26: 17-29 Mark 14: 12-25 John 13: 1-38 This is the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. The disciples made ready the passover. They prepared this meal as they did every year. John and Peter prepared it. The hour came and they ate. Jesus wanted to eat with his disciples before he suffered. This last supper on earth, was the beginning of us doing communion. For one, we do this because he told us too. We do communion as a remembrance of Jesus (1 Corinthians 11:24). In remembrance, we observe all Jesus did for us in his life, death, and resurrection. He took the place…
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Passion Week Devotions: Jesus Clears the Temple
Monday And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money – changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you make it a den of robbers.” Matthew 21: 12-13 Mark 11: 15-18, Luke 19: 45-48 The temple had become a modern-day vendor or farmers market. However, the people set up shop in the temple. To Jesus this was an ungodly activity to do in the temple. He went in and cleansed it. This kind of activity in the…