Holy Week

 
We are approaching the high point of the Christian year - Holy Week - that last week of Jesus' life on earth before the cross and the resurrection.

There are so many things to reflect on:

• Mary anointing Jesus.
• Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey.
• Jesus's actions in the Temple courtyard.
• Some of Jesus's parables.
• Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus's disciples, arranges to betray him. 
• Jesus celebrates the Last Supper with his disciples.
• The sham trials.
• Jesus's death on the cross.
• His burial.
• The silence of Saturday.
• The resurrection of Jesus.

All of these tie together.
They don't take place in isolation.
They are all part of the story of what God is doing.

Let me encourage you, this week, to take time to read the accounts. If possible, read the account in each gospel; read the whole section in one sitting. There is something powerful about reading the whole account.

• Matthew 21-27
• Mark 11-15
• Luke 19-23
• John 12-19