PALM SUNDAY TO EASTER/RESURRECTION SUNDAY
March 29-April 5, 2026.
Have you ever considered all that happened in just this one week in the life of Jesus?
He went from shouts of praise, “Hosanna!” to the ugly shouts, “Crucify!” in less than seven days.
These are Holy Days, the time of remembrance of the Passover, when God led the children of Israel maliciously over the sea on dry land to escape the Egyptians. To escape the Death Angel that God sent as the final Egyptian plague, they had to kill a lamb and place its blood over the door and side posts of their houses so the Angel would know to pass over that house and not kill the firstborn.
Jesus has been preaching, teaching and instructing his disciples from the day He called them to follow Him.
The disciples expected that to continue as usual. Peter asked Jesus not to tell them He was going to die, surely that was not going to happen.
Jesus had to rebuke Peter, charging him, “Get thee behind me Satan.”
Jesus knew He was going to die. He knew He was going to be the Passover Lamb, paying the sin debt with His blood to open the doors of heaven to all who would claim His as Lord and Savior.
Jesus commemorated the Passover supper with His disciples. He told them that Judas Iscariot was going to betray Him. They went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Jesus went ahead further into the garden to pray alone.
Showing His humanity, Jesus asked His Father God if the cup of suffering could pass from Him.
Jesus prayed so fervently that his body sweat became great drops of blood. Angels came and attended to Jesus strengthening Him for the ordeal He was to face, or He would have died before they even got Him on the cross.
When the crowd came to arrest Jesus one disciple took a sword and struck a servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.
Jesus restored the ear and asked the question we must ask when trying to place blame for the death of Christ, “Don’t you know that I can pray to my Father and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that must be this way.”
The religious leaders tried Jesus that night, which was against their own laws.
He was turned over to the Romans, who beat Him and placed a crown of thorns upon His head. Pilate tried to give the people another prisoner, but they refused, and, when asked what to do with Jesus, they cried out, “Crucify!”
Jesus was taken to the hill of Golgotha, nailed to a cross with the inscription, “King of the Jews,” and crucified between two thieves.
One thief asked for mercy, and Jesus responded, “Today you will be with Me in paradise!”
Jesus died and was buried in a borrowed tomb.
Jesus instructed the disciples before His death, that He would fulfill the sign of Jonah. As Jonah was three days in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man shall be in the tomb for three days and then He will arise from the dead!
Jesus conquered death, hell, and the grave, and opened the gates of heaven for you.
JESUS AROSE! HE IS ALIVE! HE SUFFERED IT ALL FOR YOU! HE LOVES YOU!
Happy Easter!
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Old Uncle Gib is a weekly historical feature published each week. Old Uncle Gib is a pseudonym that was used by S.C. Bishop, who founded the Chronicle in 1886. Bishop actively published the Chronicle until 1948.