Week 5 Unit 1 Student Choice Assignment

Student Choice Assignment 1: Unit 1

Here are the key events that happened during the final week of Christ's earthly ministry:
Day 1
Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. He instucts the apostles to go get an untrained colt and donkey and rides them through the city as His followers greeted by waving palm branches and doing a Hosanna shout.
Day 2
He gets rid of the money-changers and traders from the temple court, which showed Christ challending the leadership of the Jewish leaders. Christ establishes that the temple is to be a place of worship and not a house of gain.
Day 3
The Jewish leaders are upset by Christ's show against their authority in the temple yesterday, and when they challenged him he responded with parables that again offended them by challenging their authority. When they tried to rebuttle his parables he openly condemned them as hypocrites. This was the last time Christ openly taught in public. When they were looking for ways to punish him to death, they were suprised when one of Christ's apostles offered to betrayed Him.
Day 4
There are no records of what occured on this day, it is suspected taht i was spent outside of the city, perhaps to Bethany where He had been going at nights.
Day 5
The Passover was spent in a private home with the apostles. The sacrament was introduced and taught by Christ to the apostles. The intercessory prayer was given and the eleven apostles accompanied him to different parts of the garden of Gethsemane. It  was here that Christ performed the Atonement. Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss and Christ is taken captive. That night he was brought to trial.
Day 6
As the Jewish leaders tried to come up with a valid reason to punish Christ to death through the proper laws of the day, it became apparent that it would be hard to find something hehad done that was punishable by death. They first charged him with blasphemy with was enough to turn his followers against Him, but ultimately He was charged with "sedition" which meant that he was punished because He claimed to be King of the Jews. Although Pilot did not find him guilty of the crime, he gave in to the pressure of his advisors and Christ was sentenced to death.
Christ was exectued by way of crucifixtion. Because of the Passover the following day Christ's body was taken down off the cross per Jesish tradition and moved into a tomb.
Day 7
Sabbath day in Jewish tradition. Christ body remained in the tomb but his spirit ministered to the departed spirits.
Resurrection
Christ emerged from the tomb, with a living body. This is the "good news" of the story. Without which none of Christ's earthly acts would've mattered because men could not have risen again after this life.