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of Easter this is Jesus who is the Son of God and the savior of the world while Jesus was on Earth he taught everyone about the love of God and healed people from their illnesses he did many miracles like calming storms and even raised people from the dead. wahoo Jesus and his disciples stopped in a town and Jesus told two of his disciples to go ahead of them, okay, he told them to go to a town and they would see a little donkey that no one had ever ridden. Rock told him to untie him.

Carry it and bring it if anyone asks what you're doing. He told them to simply say that the Lord needs it and we will return it to Him soon. So the disciples did as Jesus said and brought the donkey to Him a long time ago before Jesus was born. born God had said that the Savior the king of Israel would come to Israel in this way and now Jesus was doing just as God had said the news that Jesus would come to Jerusalem toured the city many heard about all the wonderful things he had done then they cut palm branches and the Pharisees and the religious rulers ran to see him and realized that they could do nothing because everyone was going to see Jesus.

Jesus rode into the city of Jerusalem and the crowds spread their cloaks on the road before him. followers began shouting and singing as they walked praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen. The Pharisees got angry and told Jesus to stop people from saying things like that, but Jesus said that if they kept quiet, the stones along the road would fall. He burst into tears and the people continued singing blessings to the king who comes in the name of the Lord, praise God in heaven, the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar when he came in asking who this is and the crowd responded that it is Jesus and Jesus was riding. the donkey through the streets of Jerusalem to the temple in a triumphal entry just as God said he would many years before.

The Jewish leaders and teachers did not like what Jesus was doing or how he claimed to be the son of God so they made a plan to arrest him to get rid of him once and for all Judas one of Jesus' disciples agreed to betray Jesus and hand him over to the religious leaders for some money. At that time the Jewish people were celebrating a festival called Passover that had been celebrated since the time of Moses when God led his people out of Egypt then Jesus was going to Jerusalem to celebrate the disciples asked Jesus where he wanted to eat the Passover meal that night Jesus said as you entered the city A man carrying a pitcher of water will find you, follow him home, he enters, tell the owner, the teacher asks where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples, he will take you upstairs, to a large room that is already prepared, it is say. where we were to prepare our food the disciples found that everything was just as Jesus had said later that night Jesus arrived with the 12 disciples they sat down to eat and Jesus said that he was happy to be with everyone Jesus got up from the table and left his cloak and began to wash the feet of his disciples Jesus loved his disciples and knew that the time would come to leave them and return to heaven when Jesus approached Peter and said to him: are you going to wash my feet?

Jesus said you don't understand what I'm doing now but someday you will Peter said you will never wash my feet but Jesus then told him that unless he washed his feet it wouldn't belong to him oh well then oh God then Peter said then wash my hands and the head as well not only my feet but Jesus told him that it was not necessary he only needed to wash his feet so that Peter would be clean. Then Jesus finished washing their feet and said that the disciples should do with the others as he had done with them. them, he told them to follow the example he had given them of serving one another and not thinking of themselves as greater than anyone else then God would bless them for doing what Jesus had taught them to do while they ate Jesus took some bread and blessed it said take it because this is my body that is given for you Jesus told them to do this to help you remember it glass of wine and he thanked God for it and said to his disciples this is my blood is shed as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many Jesus said, one of you who eats with me here will betray me.

He told them that things had to happen like this but that great sadness would await the one who betrayed him. The disciples became very upset and asked, "Is it me?" Who is he talking about Judas asked Jesus, is it me? and Jesus said you said it one of the disciples asked Jesus Lord who is Jesus said he was who he would give the bread to he gave the bread to Judas and Jesus said hurry up and do what you are going to do none of the others in the table knew what Jesus meant so Judas left immediately to betray Jesus then Jesus consoled and encouraged the disciples promised them they would have a helper when Jesus was there they all left together they sang a song to God he knew the time had come to that he died as the scriptures had said a long time ago so he went with his disciples to an olive grove called Gethsemane and Jesus said sit here while I go to pray he took Peter James and John with him and he was very distressed and worried he asked them to leave.

They would stay with him and watch, that is, he wanted them to stay awake with him. He went a little further and prayed. Abba Father, everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering from me, but I want your will to be done, not mine, then. an angel appeared from heaven and strengthened Jesus then Jesus prayed even harder and he was suffering greatly he returned to his disciples and they were all asleep oh he said to Peter, could you not watch with me even one hour, watch and pray so that you do not give in to the temptation? and then Jesus left them again to pray the same thing he did before returning to the disciples after having prayed and found them sleeping again the disciples did not know what to say then Jesus left for the third time praying the same thing again when he returned to his disciples.

The disciples told them to go ahead and sleep, but look, Judas' time has come. The disciple who was betraying Jesus came with men to arrest Jesus. Judas showed them who Jesus was. Jesus was arrested and taken before the rulers of the earth so they could decide what to do. to do with him Jesus was presented before the High Council and they asked him if he was the Messiah, the savior of the Jews, they asked him if he claimed to be the son of God, they say that I am, and the council became angry and shouted that Jesus was guilty and deserves to die, so they took to Jesus before the pilot Roman ruler heard the case against Jesus Pilate did not think that Jesus had done anything wrong, they found him innocent, so Pilate said that he would punish Jesus and then release him, but the crowd kept shouting louder and louder: "Who crucifies him, we want him dead." and due to pressure from the crowd, Pilate handed Jesus over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.

Jesus was wounded and they spat on his clothes, they ripped him off and they put a crown made of thorns on his head, they beat him so brutally. that he could barely stand on his own and then he was forced to carry his cross so high up a mountain that he needed help because he couldn't do it on his own once Jesus arrived at the place where he would be crucified called the skull. the soldiers around him nailed him to the cross and waited for him to die while Jesus was hanging on the cross many people shouted to him if you are really the Son of God save yourself from the cross but Jesus knew that he had to die to forgive his people for their sins at noon darkness fell over the entire earth three hours later Jesus took his last breath and finally died at that same moment the curtain in the temple that separated the priests from the

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place of God was torn and a soldier who was watching everything The matter said this, the man truly was a foreign son of God, so a righteous man named Joseph came and placed the body of Jesus in a tomb.

Three days passed and it seemed like there was no hope but very early on Sunday morning the woman who was taking care of Jesus went to visit his body and found that his tomb was empty and that he was no longer there. Don't be afraid, said an angel. He is not here He has risen In this the woman remembered that Jesus had told them that He would rise on the third day and she ran to go tell the disciples what they had seen and heard Jesus appeared to listen to two disciples to show them that he was alive Same day two of Jesus' followers were walking towards a town called Emmaus and talking about everything that had happened with Jesus while they were talking Jesus suddenly came and walked well with them but God prevented them from recognizing Jesus Jesus asked them what they were about talking the two men were very sad one of them called Cleopas said you must be the only person in Jerusalem who hasn't heard of all the things that have happened there in the last few days oh Jesus asked what things the men answered the things They told Jesus everything that had happened to him, they told him that some women had left, he went to his tomb and said that his body had disappeared and that others had gone to see if it was true and they saw that his body had really disappeared then Jesus told them, fools, you find it so difficult to believe everything that the prophets wrote in the scriptures oh let me explain to you then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets explaining from all the scriptures the things related to him at that moment they were approaching Emmaus Jesus acted like he was going to continue hey wait but the men begged him to spend the night with them because it was getting late oh well then Jesus went home with them and as they sat down to eat Jesus He blessed the bread, then he broke the bread and gave it to them.

Suddenly their eyes opened and they recognized Jesus, hello. and at that moment he disappeared, where he went, the men said to each other, our hearts did not burn within us while he explained the scriptures to us, let's go, and at that hour they returned to Jerusalem, they found the eleven and the others who were with them, and they told them their

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. while they were telling their story Jesus was suddenly standing between them well that's how it happened yes everyone got scared and thought it was a ghost well come on guys but Jesus showed that it was actually him.

He showed them his hands and feet and they all looked at him in amazement then Jesus asked for something to eat oh he got something to eat and they gave him fish to eat oh that's good Jesus reminded them that everything happened as it was supposed to and helped them understand the scriptures later promised to send them the Holy Spirit and told them to stay in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and filled them with the power from heaven one of the 12 disciples Thomas was not with the others when Jesus came later, the disciples said Thomas we have seen To the Lord Thomas he said, I will not believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands.

I put my fingers in them and placed my hand in the wound in his side. Eight days later the disciples were together again and this time Thomas was with them. the doors were closed, but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing between them, oh God, peace be upon you, he said, then Jesus said to Thomas, put your finger here and look at my hands, put your hand on the wound on my side. Don't be unfaithful anymore believe Thomas said my Lord and my God then Jesus said to him believe because you have seen me blessed are those who believe without seeing Jesus had been with the disciples for 40 days and appeared to many people he took the disciples to a place called Bethany Jesus blessed the disciples and told them to go out and tell everyone about him and the good news of forgiveness and make disciples of them, then he said, be sure of this, I will be with you always until the end of time. .

Then Jesus was taken up to heaven to sit at the right hand of God, shortly after the Holy Spirit came to the disciples to be his help. The disciples knew that God would truly be with them always and the Holy Spirit is still with us today. because Jesus promised that he would be with us until the end of time and he is