Narrative Lectionary

These verses conveyed to the original readers the significance of the empty tomb. Mary Magdalene [...]

The references to the day of Preparation and the Sabbath connoted the holiness of these [...]

It was customary for Roman soldiers to keep the garments of persons they had just [...]

The crowds have been trying to make Jesus their king [...]

Jesus gets enthroned. Everyone else condemns himself or herself. Let us count the ways we [...]

Jesus is led, bound, from Caiaphas’ house to Pilate’s headquarters on the day of preparation [...]

In the garden, Jesus allows the Roman soldiers and temple police to arrest him (verse [...]

“Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to [...]

This story is rich in literary and theological themes interwoven with what has gone before [...]