all things cbl

Appreciating the Last Week of the Saviors Life
Andrew C. Skinner
TUE 1230

Where the Emphasis or Focus is Placed:
- 1/4 to 1/3 of the material in the 4 Gospels presents the Last Week
- Gospel of John has 21 chapters
- chapters 12-20 = last week
- chapters 13-19 = last 24 hours of the Saviors life

They devoted a significant amount of space to this important part.

The Greatest Week in teh History of the church
Marvin J. Ashton
“In the final week of his life cries turned from ‘Hosanna’ to ‘Crucify’.. Unwavering courage carried him onward and upward triumphantly. The honest in heart would yet know what he stood for and why he must die……”

Last Week Account Begins
’six days before the passover’
- At Bethany, east slope Mount of Olivees
- Jesus’ death foreshadowed (John 12:1-11)
- Judas and Lazarus discussed

Fifth Day Before Passover = Palm Sunday = Triumphal Entry
Triumphal Entry
- All the Gospels record (Matt 21:1-17, Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19-28-44; John 12:12-18)
- Great Messianic Fervor (Matt 21:8-11)
- Tremendous Symbolism
- Fulfilled Prophecy (Isaiah 62:11, Zechariah 9:9)
- Why on a Donkey? (The King comes)

Effect of the Triumphal Entry
- not what the leaders of the christian church hoped for.
- Disappointed followers?

Fifth Day continued…
- Jesus weeps over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-44)
- Jesus instructs the Greeks (Luke 12:20-50)

Fourth Day before Passover = Monday
- Note where he lodges each night (Matthew 21:17)
- Fig tree cursed and lessons taught (Matt 21:18-23; Mark 11:12-14, 20-26)

Events with no day specified:
Pharisees counsel on entrapping Jesus
Marriage, seven husbands,
The Great Commandments
Pharisees silenced
Widow’s Mite
Jesus denounces hypocrisy
The Olivet Discourse: Second Coming (Matthew 24)
Parables of the Last Days and Second Coming (Matt 25 only in matthew)
HBL said dont read Matthew 24.. but the JST Matthew 24. Prophet Joseph Smith rearranged the versus so they are really cronological in order.
Read D&C 45, 101, 133, 38

Second Day before Passover = Wednesday
- Jesus’ Prophecy of Crucifixion (Matt 26:2)
- Conspiracy at Caiaphas’s Palace (Matt 26:3-5, Mark 14:1-2)
- Feast with Simon the Leper and Anointing (Matt 26:7-13)

all of those charged with leadership of the temple… were those that who were responsible for cementing and making the final plot that will take Jesus’ life.

Feast Draws Nigh (Luke 221-13)
- Judas’s Conspiracy (Luke 22:1-6)
- Preparation for Passover (Luke 22:7-13)
- Seder = ordered or arranged
- passover dinner is called the seder