Key Events of the Passion Week
Investigating the Meaning, Significance, and Truth of Key Events in Holy Week
What does Holy Week mean?
What are the Holy Week events all about? Why does it matter? Holy Week, or the Passion Week, refers to the last week of Lent where Christians focus on key events in Jesus’ life during the days leading up to Easter.
After Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, many Christians gather together for Maundy (or “Commandment”) Thursday, focusing on the Last Supper, Jesus washing his disciples’ feet and commanding them to love each other by doing the same.
Next, Good Friday services remember Jesus’ arrest, trial, suffering, crucifixion, and burial. The climax of the season of Lent is Holy Saturday, where many Christians gather to reflect and wait for Easter. After Lent, Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday.
These are historic practices which aren’t just observed only by mainline denominations, but in many churches across the world. But what do the Holy Week events themselves mean?
Five Key Events
In this Table podcast, I walk you through discovering the meaning, significance, and truth behind five key Passion Week events: The Last Supper, Jesus’ Jewish Examination, Jesus’ trial before Pilate, Jesus’ crucifixion, and the discovery of Jesus’ empty tomb. I was pleased to guest host the show a fourth time, interviewing my mentor Darrell Bock, Jim Allman, and Mark Bailey.
Podcast Outline
Key points of our conversation on the Passion Week:
- Understanding Jesus’ reorientation of the Last Supper
- Faith, remembrance, and Lord’s Supper
- Jesus’ Jewish examination and his claims to authority
- How Psalm 110 helps explain Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah
- How Daniel 7 helps explain Jesus’ claim to be the Son of Man
- How an apocryphal Jewish text, 1 Enoch 62, helps explain the blasphemy charge
- The Jewish charge of blasphemy and the Roman charge of sedition
- How Psalm 22 helps explain Jesus’ words from the cross
- The first witnesses to Jesus’ empty tomb
- The location of Jesus’ empty tomb
- The meaning of Jesus’ resurrection
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Various Speakers - March 24, 2012
Question and Answer Panel
Craig Hazen, John Mark Reynolds, Mikel Del Rosario and Sean McDowell take questions from the audience.
From Series: "Reasonable Faith in an Uncertain World II"
This accessible apologetics weekend event is the second collaborative project by Mikel Del Rosario and faculty from the Christian Apologetics Program at Biola University: J.P. Moreland, Craig Hazen & John Mark Reynolds. They are joined by Sean McDowell. This conference was recorded live at Bridgeway Christian Church in Rocklin, California.
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Darrell Bock is the Senior Research Professor of New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS). Jim Allman is professor of Old Testament studies at DTS. Mark Bailey is President of Dallas Theological Seminary and senior professor of Bible exposition.
