As you’re going to church this week, the week known as Holy Week, you know there’s Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. Do you ever wonder about what Jesus was doing on each particular day of Holy Week? We have attached a document that gives you all the Bible verses pertaining to each specific day in Jesus’ final week of ministry on earth. You can read through this as your own personal devotion time or spend some quality time with the kids together reading through the accounts of the various days.
If you want to print it off, here’s the PDF version: Jesus daily during Holy Week
Sunday:
Jesus enters Jerusalem: Matt. 21:1–11; Mark 11:1–10; Luke 19:29–44; John 12:12–19
Jesus predicts his death: John 12:20–36
Jesus visits the temple: Matt. 21:14–17; Mark 11:11
Monday:
Jesus curses a fig tree: Matt. 21:18–19; Mark 11:12–14
Jesus cleanses the temple Matt. 21:12–13; Mark 11:15–18; Luke 19:45–48
Tuesday:
The lesson from the fig tree: Matt. 21:20–22; Mark 11:20–26
Jesus teaches and engages in controversies in the temple Matt. 21:23–23:39; Mark 11:27–12: 44; Luke 20: 1–21: 4
Jesus predicts the future Matthew 24–25; Mark 13:1–37; Luke 21:5–36
Wednesday: (Wednesday and Tuesday are hard to decipher which fell on which day, so these are only possibilities.)
Jesus continues his daily teaching in the temple complex: Luke 21:37–38
The Sanhedrin plots to kill Jesus: Matt. 26:3–5; Mark 14: 1–2; Luke 22:1–2
Thursday:
Jesus instructs his disciples Peter and John to secure a large upper room in a house in Jerusalem and to prepare for the Passover meal: Matt. 26:17–19; Mark 14:12–16; Luke 22:7–13
In the evening Jesus eats the Passover meal with the Twelve, tells them of the coming betrayal, and institutes the Lord’s Supper: Matt. 26:20–29; Mark 14:17–23; Luke 22:14–30
During supper Jesus washes the disciples’ feet, interacts with them, and delivers the Upper Room Discourse (Farewell Discourse): John 13:1–17: 26
Jesus and the disciples sing a hymn together, then depart to the Mount of Olives Matt. 26:30; Mark 14:26; Luke 22:39
Jesus predicts Peter’s denials Matt. 26:31–35; Mark 14: 27–31; Luke 22:31–34
Jesus issues final practical commands about supplies and provisions Luke 22:35–38
Jesus and the disciples go to Gethsemane, where he struggles in prayer and they struggle to stay awake late into the night Matt. 26:36–46; Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:40–46
Friday:
Jesus is betrayed by Judas and arrested by the authorities (perhaps after midnight, early Friday morning) Matt. 26:47–56; Mark 14:43–52; Luke 22:47–53; John 18:2–12
Jesus has an informal hearing before Annas (former high priest and Caiaphas’s father-in-law) Matt. 26:57, 59– 68; Mark 14:53, 55–65; Luke 22:63–71
As predicted, Peter denies Jesus and the rooster crows Matt. 26:58, 69–75; Mark 14:54, 66–72; Luke 22:54b–62; John 18:15–18, 25–27
After sunrise on Friday the final consultation of the full Sanhedrin condemns Jesus to death and sends him to Pontius Pilate Matt. 27:1–2; Mark 15:1
Judas changes his mind, returns the silver, and hangs himself Matt. 27:3–10
Pilate questions Jesus and sends him to Herod Antipas Matt. 27:11–14; Mark 15:2–5; Luke 23: 1–7; John 18:28–38
Herod questions Jesus and sends him back to Pilate Luke 23:8–12
Jesus appears before Pilate a second time and is condemned to die Matt. 27:15–26; Mark 15:6–15; Luke 23:13–25; John 18:38b–19:16
Jesus is mocked and marched to Golgotha Matt. 27:27–34; Mark 15:16–23; Luke 23:26–49; John 19:17
Jesus is crucified between two thieves Matt. 27:35–44; Mark 15:24–32; Luke 23:33–43; John 19: 18–27
Jesus breathes his last Matt. 27:45–56; Mark 15:33– 41; Luke 23:44–49; John 19:28–37
Joseph of Arimathea buries Jesus in a new tomb Matt. 27:57– 61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42
Saturday:
The chief priests and Pharisees place guards at the tomb with Pilate’s permission Matt. 27:62–66
Sunday:
Some women discover the empty tomb and are instructed by angels Matt. 28:1–7; Mark 16:1–7; Luke 24:1–7; John 20:1
The women, fearful and joyful, leave the garden and tell the disciples Matt. 28:8–10; Luke 24:8–11; John 20: 2
Peter and John rush to the tomb based upon Mary Magdalene’s report and discover it empty Luke 24:12; John 20:3–10
Mary returns to the tomb and encounters Jesus John 20:11–18
Jesus appears to Cleopas and a friend on the road to Emmaus Luke 24:13–35
That evening Jesus appears to the Eleven (minus Thomas) in a house in Jerusalem Luke 24:36–43; John 20:19–23
Later Appearances of Jesus and the Ascension: (These are other references of Jesus, but after Easter)
Jesus appears to the Eleven (including Thomas) John 20:24–31
Jesus appears to some at the Sea of Galilee John 21
The Great Commission Matt. 28:16–20 (see also Luke 24:45–49; John 20:21–23; Acts 1:8)
The ascension Luke 24:50–53; Acts 1:9–11
(Source used: Köstenberger Andreas J. The Final Days of Jesus: the Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived. Crossway Publishing, Wheaton, IL. 2014)