Parish of Tile Cross & Fordbridge

We aim to show the love of God in what we do as well as what we say

Church of England

Birmingham Dioceses

The Journey to Jerusalem

Jesus wanted to get to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. He asked two of his friends to fetch a donkey from the next village. Jesus then mounted the donkey and rode into the crowded streets of Jerusalem. When the people of Jerusalem heard that Jesus was coming they came out to meet him, spreading their coats and fronds of palm leaves on the road for him to ride over.

The Argument in the Temple

Jesus arrived at the Temple where he saw men selling pigeons for sacrifice and money-changers handing out the special Temple coins. He was very angry and turned over the tables, driving them out of the temple. Two days before the actual feast of the Passover, Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' 12 friends, went to the chief priests. He had been disappointed that Jesus had not led a revolt against the Romans, now he wanted to betray him, and was given 30 pieces of silver for doing so.

The Last Supper

On the evening of the festival, Jesus and his friends sat down to their meal, but before they ate, Jesus started to wash his friends feet. His friends were surprised because that was servants work, but he was demonstrating that he wanted them to serve each other just as he was serving them. Jesus told his friends that one of them was going to betray him before the cock crowed the following morning. They were all shocked and surprised. He broke bread and told them 'This is my body' and poured wine and told them 'This is my blood'.

Jesus is arrested

After the meal was finished, some of them wandered out into the garden of Gethsemane where Jesus knelt down to pray. He had asked his friends to stand guard, but when he checked, they had fallen asleep. He woke them up and went back to pray. Three times this happened but on the last time, the Temple guards and Chief Priests caught Jesus. His friends ran off and left him.

The Trial

The Priests wanted to kill Jesus, but they wanted it to look like a fair trial. The priests needed the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate consent to carry out the execution and realised that they needed to charge Jesus with treason. Pilate didn't think that Jesus had done anything treasonable, but the priests stirred the crowd that had gathered into a riot, and the Roman Governor agreed to sentence him to death.

The Crucifixion

The soldiers took Jesus away, flogged him and gave him a crown of thorns and generally mocked him. He had to carry his own heavy cross onto the hill where he was to be crucified. Then they nailed his hands and feet to the cross and left him hanging there to die. After he was dead, he was taken down from the cross and left in a burial cave where a stone had been rolled across the entrance with guards, to stop anyone getting to the body.

The Resurrection

Two days later, a friend of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, was walking past the cave, when she realised that the stone had been removed and looking in, she saw that Jesus body had been taken. She caught sight of a man that she thought was the gardener, and yelled at him for taking Jesus body. Suddenly he turned and spoke to her and she recognised that it was Jesus himself that she was talking to. He had risen from the dead.