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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

B12-B

The Final Week of Jesus’ Life on Earth (Part 2)

Jerusalem and Surrounding Area

  1. Temple

  2.   Garden of Gethsemane (?)

  3.    Governor’s Palace

  4.   House of Caiaphas (?)

  5.   Palace Used by Herod Antipas (?)

  6. Pool of Bethzatha

  7. Pool of Siloam

  8.   Sanhedrin Hall (?)

  9.   Golgotha (?)

  10. Akeldama (?)

     Go to day:  Nisan 12 |  Nisan 13 |  Nisan 14 |  Nisan 15 |  Nisan 16

 Nisan 12

SUNSET (Jewish days start and end at sunset)

SUNRISE

  • Quiet day with disciples

  • Judas arranges betrayal

SUNSET

 Nisan 13

SUNSET

SUNRISE

  • Peter and John prepare for the Passover

  • Jesus and other apostles arrive in late afternoon

SUNSET

 Nisan 14

SUNSET

  • Eats the Passover with the apostles

  • Washes the feet of the apostles

  • Dismisses Judas

  • Institutes the Lord’s Evening Meal

  • Betrayed and arrested in the garden of Gethsemane ( 2)

  • Apostles flee

  • Tried by the Sanhedrin at the house of Caiaphas ( 4)

  • Peter denies Jesus

SUNRISE

  • Stands before the Sanhedrin again ( 8)

  • Taken to Pilate ( 3), then to Herod ( 5), then back to Pilate ( 3)

  • Sentenced to death and executed at Golgotha ( 9)

  • Dies about three o’clock in the afternoon

  • Body removed and buried

SUNSET

 Nisan 15 (Sabbath)

SUNSET

SUNRISE

  • Pilate approves posting guards at Jesus’ grave

SUNSET

 Nisan 16

SUNSET

  • Additional burial spices are purchased

SUNRISE

  • Resurrected

  • Appears to disciples

SUNSET