Silent Lesson No words will be spoken in class today as we study of the life, suffering, and death of Jesus Christ from Isaiah 53. Come in. Get your Journal. Have a seat. Please do not speak. (Cell phones away)

OPENING HYMN: Please turn to hymn #193 and silently read the words. OPENING PRAYER: After you are done reading, please have a personal prayer to begin today’s study

Silently answer the question in Isiah 46:5.

1:4 Holy One of Israel 1:24 Lord of hosts and mighty One of Israel 5:16 God that is holy 6:5 The King 7:14 Immanuel 8:18 Lord of hosts 9:6 Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace 10:20 Holy One of Israel 13:6 The Almighty 17:7 Maker 17:10 The God of thy salvation, the rock of thy strength 24:15 The Lord in the fire 26:4 JEHOVAH is everlasting strength 30:18 The Lord is a God of Judgment 30:29 Mighty One of Israel 33:22 Judge, lawgiver, our king 40:28 The everlasting God 44:6 The first and the last 45:11 The Maker 45:15 The Savior 45:18 Lord that created the heavens 48:17 Thy God which teacheth thee 49:7 The Lord that is faithful 51:22 Thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people 54:5 Thine husband 54:10 The Lord that hath mercy on thee 56:8 The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts 63:16 Our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting 64:8 Our Father Pick 5-10 favorite titles of Christ from the book of Isaiah to mark JOUNRAL QUESTION: What is YOUR favorite title of the Savior? Why?

Is. 53:10-12 “It pleased the Lord to bruise him. When he shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed…For he shall bear their iniquities….He bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.” 5 Isaiah prophesied Jesus’ death

Gethsemane comes from the Hebrew words geth [gath], meaning “press,” and semane [shemen], meaning “oil”. Gethsemane therefore means “oil press.” The garden of Gethsemane was a grove of olive trees where the Savior was “pressed” in that garden by the weight of the sins of all mankind until His blood flowed from His skin. Definition of Gethsemane

The Symbolism of Olive Trees This is a Gethsemane

The Symbolism of Olive Trees This is a Gethsemane

To produce olive oil, olives had to be crushed in a press. The olives were placed in burlap bags and flattened by a stone...

Then a huge crushing circular rock was rolled around on top, paced by a mule or an ox…

The Symbolism of Olive Trees Another method used heavy wooden levers or screws twisting beams downward like a winch upon the stone. The effect was the same: pressure, pressure, pressure— until the oil flowed.

The first liquid to appear is red, followed by the grey-green olive oil we are used to seeing. (Truman G. Madsen, “The Olive Press,” Ensign, Dec 1982, 57)

The Symbolism of Olive Trees

GETHSEMANE children’s song: Listen to the song, Gethsemane.

The Symbolism of Olive Trees Listen to the song, Gethsemane.

“For many years I thought of the Savior’s experience in the garden and on the cross as places where a large mass of sin was heaped upon Him. Through the words of prophets, however, my view has changed. The Atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us individually… “He knows our weaknesses. But more than that, He knows how to help us if we come to Him in faith.” Merrill J. Bateman “A Pattern for All” Ensign, October 2005 The Atonement

Prophets Testifies of Jesus Christ Have you ever thought, “No one understands what I am going through”? Please read Isaiah 53 looking for Doctrines and Principles about the suffering of the Savior. After, you will have 8 minutes to silently read what Abinadi, King Benjamin, Matthew and John wrote about the Savior’s suffering.

Silently read what Isaiah, Abinadi, King Benjamin, Matthew and John wrote about the Savior’s suffering. Handout

LDS Bible Video: Gethsemane

The Day Jesus Died

T HE V IA D OLOROSA ("Way of Suffering“) is a street in Jerusalem along which Jesus walked from Pilate’s palace on the way to his crucifixion at Calvary. The winding route is a distance of just under ½ mile. Jesus carried his 125lb cross along this route.

Pilate’s Palace Calvary

Jesus was marched T HE V IA D OLOROSA

 Crucifixion was probably the most horrible form of capital punishment ever used by man  The victim was scourged (flogged with a whip with fragments of bone and metal to remove skin, flesh, and muscle from the upper back to the lower parts of the legs).  The bones of the back, including the spinal column, were often exposed during the scourging, often resulting in death  After the scourging, the victim was crucified. The cause of death on a cross was the loss of blood and the inability to breathe due to the position of the body  The victim eventually suffocated when he became unable to support his body 35

Psalms 22:14-18 “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My strength is dried up…and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws. “They pierced my hands and my feet. They look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture.” 36 Remember, David prophesied Jesus’ death

The Greek word for hand (cheir) means “lower arm” and includes both the hands and the wrists. History indicates that both the hand and wrist of Christ were pierced as the full weight of a victim’s body could not be held by nails hands alone. (see “Discovery”, Ensign, July 1975) Take a moment and firmly press against your palm; then do the same against your wrist. 37

What happened while Jesus was on the cross? “The agony of Gethsemane returned. In those bitterest hours, the dying Christ was alone.” James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ (p, 612).

“There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you will confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, ‘No one knows what it is like! No one understands!’ But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens. And because of His infinite and eternal sacrifice, He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of mercy. He can reach out, touch, succor, heal, and strengthen us” (“Bear Up Their Burdens with Ease,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2014, 90).

THE WAY: Elder Lawrence

THE WAY: Elder Lawrence

Write in your Journal…. (you’ll have about 5-8mins)  What feelings did you have today about the Savior?  How is your life different because of the Savior?  Which of the Savior’s characteristics do you most admire?  What has helped you feel or know that Jesus is the Christ?

Closing Prayer  Please have a personal closing prayer ….