Holy Week
Eight days that changed everything — from the anointing at Bethany to the road to Emmaus, walked place by place around Jerusalem.
The anointing at Bethany
Six days before Passover, in the house of Lazarus whom he raised, Mary pours a pound of costly perfume on Jesus' feet — anointing him, he says, for his burial.
The King arrives
Down the slope of the Mount of Olives Jesus rides a colt into the city, while the crowd spreads cloaks and branches and shouts: "Blessed is the King that cometh in the name of the Lord!"
The house of prayer
Jesus drives the money-changers out of the temple and overturns their tables: "My house shall be called the house of prayer." The blind and the lame come to him there, and children sing Hosanna.
The last supper
In a borrowed upper room in the city, Jesus takes bread and wine and gives the Passover its new meaning: "This is my body… this cup is the new testament in my blood."
The garden
In an olive grove across the Kidron valley, Jesus prays in agony while his friends sleep: "Not as I will, but as thou wilt." Then the torches arrive.
The cross
Outside the city wall, at the place of a skull, Jesus is crucified between two others. Then he cries, "It is finished" — and it is.
Resurrection morning
Before dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene finds the stone rolled away. A man she takes for the gardener says her name — and everything changes.
The road to Emmaus
Two heartbroken disciples walk seven miles home while a stranger opens the Scriptures to them. At the table he breaks the bread — and their eyes are opened.