Passion Week Timeline
- Mar 29
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DAY 1: PALM SUNDAY
Jesus enters Jerusalem and is welcomed by the crowds waving palm branches.
(Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and John 12:12-19)
DAY 2: HOLY MONDAY
Jesus curses the fruitless fig tree, enters the temple and clears out the corrupted money
changers.
(Matthew 21:12-22, Mark 11:15-19, Luke 19:45-48, and John 2:13-17)
Day 3: HOLY TUESDAY
Jesus evades ambush, gives Olivet discourse.
(Matthew 21:23-24:51, Mark 11:20-13:37, Luke 20:1-21:36 and John 12:20-38)
Day 4: HOLY WEDNESDAY
Jesus and the disciples rest in Bethany. Judas agrees to betray Jesus.
(Matthew 26:12-14, Mark 14:10-12, Luke 22:3-6)
Day 5: MAUDY THURSDAY
Jesus celebrates the Passover with His Disciples and Jesus is betrayed by Judas and
arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane.
(Matthew 26:17-75, Mark 14:12-72, Luke 22:7-62, and John 13:1-38)
DAY 6: GOOD FRIDAY
Jesus is trialed and crucified, and then taken down from the cross and placed in the
tomb.
(Matthew 27:1-62, Mark 15:1-47, Luke 22:63-23:56, and John 18:28-19:37)
DAY 7: HOLY SATURDAY, (ALSO CALLED BLACK SATURDAY)
Jesus body lays in the tomb and is treated for burial; disciples come out of hiding and
mourn openly.
(Matthew 27:62-66, Mark 16:1, Luke23:56 and John 19:40)
DAY 8: RESURRECTION SUNDAY, HE IS RISEN!!!
Multiple eyewitness accounts of Jesus having resurrected and the discovery of the
empty tomb.
(Matthew 28:1-13, Mark 16:1-14, Luke 24-1-49, and John 20:1-23)

