2. Australia

3. Poland
Water Fight

4. Florence, Italy
Exploding Wagon

5. Bermuda
Kite Flying

6. Corfu, Greece
Breaking Jars

7. Philippines
Breaking Jars

8. Russia
Romania
Africa
China- tea eggs

9. Germany
Egg Dance

10. Germany
Egg Trees

11. France, Haux
5,000 Egg Omelet

12. Romania
Egg Knocking Contest

13. Mexico
Confetti Eggs

14. Egg Rolling Contest~ tomb stone
Scotland
Egg Rolling Contest~ tomb stone

15. WHY
EGGS?

16. Part of the Jewish Passover Seder

17. LENT: No eggs allowed

18. Matthew 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

19. Matthew 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

20. Two Themes in Matthew:
The Crowds
Jesus’ Claim to be King

21. The Crowds & The Kingdom

22. Matthew 24:1-15 pg. 693 If you don’t have a Bible or a Matthew Chart
with you, please raise your hand and someone will bring one to you.

24. Jerusalem and the Temple
Matthew 21:1ff
Jerusalem and the Temple

25. Matthew 21:1ff
Palm Sunday

26. Matthew 21:19ff
Entering the Temple

27. Cleansing the Temple

28. Matthew 24:2-15 pg. 693

29. Matthew 26: Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 4 and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 5 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.

30. Passover began last Friday Night

31. Passover Seder/The Last Supper
Matthew 26:17ff
Passover Seder/The Last Supper

32. The Garden of Gethsemane
Matthew 26:17ff
The Garden of Gethsemane

33. Arrested by the crowd

34. The Garden of Gethsemane
Matthew 26:17ff
The Garden of Gethsemane

35. Roman
Governor
Pontius Pilatus
Matthew 27:11 Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

37. Matthew 27: But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed. 22 “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify him!” 23 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.

38. Matthew 27:20-27 But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him
Matthew 27: But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!” 24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!” 25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”

39. Matthew 27: They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.

40. Matthew 27: Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is Jesus, the king of the Jews.

41. Matthew 27: Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.

42. Matthew 27: “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

43. Soldiers sealed the tomb
Matthew 27:57ff
Soldiers sealed the tomb

44. Soldiers sealed the tomb

45. Preparing for the 10th Plague

46. The Disciples were hiding in fear

47. Matthew 28:1-8
Pg. 698

48. Matthew 27: “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

49. NOW WHAT?

50. Matthew 28:18-20
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

51. Matthew 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,.

52. Matthew 28:18-20
20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

53. Philippians 2:9-11
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.