2. The Resurrection
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3. Day of Preparation Day of Preparation
No food preparation on the Sabbath
6 pm Thursday – 6 p.m. Friday
Passover meal eaten Thursday pm
Jesus goes to Gethsemane
Arrested and tried Thursday Midnight to Friday am
Taken to Pilate

4. Day of Preparation Day of Preparation Ordered crucified Friday 9 am
(Passover lamb killed at 3 pm)
Darkness from 12 noon to 3 pm
Jesus is buried and the tomb sealed before 6 pm – the start of the Sabbath

5. Sabbath Day Sabbath (6 pm Fri – 6 pm Sat)
Body rests on the Sabbath (6 pm Friday through 6 pm Saturday
High “Sabbath” – Sabbath/Passover
Jewish leaders seek a guard on the Sabbath

6. Resurrection Day Early Sunday morning Jesus rose prior to Sunrise
Sunrise women went to the tomb

7. Does it matter?
“If there is no resurrection our preaching is useless and so is your faith” – 1 Cor 15:14
“. . . we [apostles] are false witnesses” – v 15
“ your faith is futile, you are still in your sins” – v 17

8. Does it matter?
“we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised. . .” – 1 Cor 15:51-52

9. God’s Story This was the day God was waiting for
He wants us to be eternally with him

10. Their Story He’s a deceiver and the disciples will steal his body
Afraid of Jesus’ impact – the world was going after Jesus!

11. Our Story The crux of our story is the resurrection
What do we believe about the resurrection?
Are we alive in Christ or dead in our sins?