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What Passion Week and Holy Week Mean

Today's question is, what is Passion Week or Holy Week? In this video I'll answer that question from a biblical perspective. Then afterwards, as always, I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the end.

Passion Week, also known as Holy Week, is the time from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday. Also included within Passion Week are Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Spy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.

Passion Week is so named because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross in order to pay for the sins of His people. Passion Week is described in Matthew 21 -27, Mark 11 -15, Luke 19 -23, and John 12 -19.

Passion Week begins with a triumphal entry on Palm Sunday on the back of a call as prophesied in Zechariah 9. Passion Week contains several memorable events. Jesus cleansed the temple for the second time in Luke 19 -45 -46, then disputed with the Pharisees regarding His authority.

Then He gave His Olivet Discourse on the end times and taught many things, including the signs of His second coming. Jesus ate His last supper with His disciples in the upper room, Luke 22 -7 -38, then went on to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray as He waited for His hour to come.

It was here that Jesus, having been betrayed by Judas, was arrested and taken to several sham trials before the chief priests Pontius Pilate and Herod, Luke 22 -54 -23 -25. Following the trials, Jesus was scourged at the hands of the Roman soldiers, then was forced to carry His own instrument of execution, the cross, through the streets of Jerusalem along what is known as the Via Dolorosa, the Way of Sorrows.

Crucifixion, Burial, and Resurrection

Jesus was then crucified at Golgotha on the day before the Sabbath, was buried and remained in the tomb until Sunday, the day after the Sabbath, and then gloriously resurrected. It is referred to as Passion Week because in that time Jesus Christ truly revealed His passion for us in the suffering He willingly went through on our behalf.

Our Response During Passion Week

What should be our attitude during Passion Week? We should be passionate in our worship of Jesus and in our proclamation of His gospel. As He suffered for us, so should we be willing to suffer for the cause of following Him and proclaiming the message of His death and resurrection.

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