My Special Easter Basket - The Betrayal
Tuesday
The Betrayal
(thirty silver coins in a bag)
The reason why Jesus and so many people were in Jerusalem that week was because of Passover. Passover is one of the holy festivals that Jewish people celebrate every year, to remember when God freed their ancestors from being slaves in Egypt. On the night before they left, God instructed Moses to have the people kill a lamb and paint their doorposts with the blood before cooking the lamb for their meal. That night, the last of ten plagues God had sent to Pharoah and the Egyptians took place. When the Angel of Death blew through all of Egypt, the firstborn sons of each family were killed in their sleep, except for those whose doors were painted with blood. Those doors the Angel “passed over,” thus the name of the festival: Passover.
Read Mark 14:1-11
Somehow Judas Iscariot got word that the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus and kill him. Perhaps Judas loved money more than he loved Jesus. Maybe he was disgusted when the woman poured out that expensive jar of perfume over Jesus, believing it to be a waste of money. We’ll never know, but we do know that also remembering how horribly Jesus suffered, so that we don't have to.
Judas approached the Jewish leaders and asked what they would pay him to betray Jesus to them.
Blessings,
Gay B Brown