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Death and Resurrection (Key Words (Blasphemy: associating oneself with…

- - - - It fulfils Isiah's prophecy of the Suffering servant
        
        The Lord's servant would be lead like a lamb to the slaughter
      - It shows that Jesus is divine because he foretold that he would be betrayed
      - The priests came with clubs and swords
        
        They were afraid of Jesus' power
      - Judas calls Jesus 'teacher' and betrays him with a kiss
        
        This is cruel as Jesus is betrayed by a sign of friendship
    - - Judas is to blame because:
        
        He betrayed his friend
        
        He sold Jesus for money
        
        He was working for the religious leaders (Jesus' enemies)
      - Other opinions
        
        He was part of the process in bringing about God's plan
        
        He was fulfilling what Jesus said he would do
        
        He was trying to force Jesus to fight so there would be a rebellion against Rome
    - - "The man I kiss is the one you want"
      - "Armed with swords and clubs"
      - "The disciples left him and ran away"
  - - - "You heard his blasphemy"
      - "Are you the Messiah?"
      - "I am and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the father"
    - - The trial was unfair
        
        It was held at night which was against Jewish Law
        
        Jesus was condemned on false evidence
        
        The beating of a prisoner during the trial was illegal
        
        a prisoner could not be condemned purely on his own testimony
        
        24 hours had to elapse before the sentence was carried out
    - - Christians believe that witnesses should agree
      - Christians believe that witnesses should tell the truth
      - Christians believe people should be tried in public
      - Christians believe that people have the right to legal representation
      - Christians believe that the rules of the legal system should be followed properly
  - - - It was necessary for Pilate to approve the death sentence
      - IT shows the Pilate was a weak governor
      - It showed Pilate wanted to please the crowd
      - It showed Pilate was reluctant to have Jesus crucified
    - - "Crucify him"
    - - Mark showed it as being the crowd's (Jews) fault that Jesus was crucified
        
        This led to anti semitism
      - Modern Historians agree that Pilate was a cruel governor who enjoyed torturing others
        
        It was unlikely that he would have allowed the crowds to decide
        
        Modern christians feel like Mark's account is biased against the Jews
      - Mark may have been biased because he wanted to convince Romans to be christians so he wouldn't have blames the Romans for Jesus' death
      - Most modern christians see the trial as fulfilling God's plan
        
        There is no longer much persecution of the Jews because it goes against Jesus' teaching of treating everyone equally
      - People see Jesus' death as him fulfilling the prophecy to bring us new life
        
        It was not the fault of the Jews
- - - - The disciples celebrated the Passover which shows that they are Jewish
      - It symbolises Jesus giving people his body and blood
        
        Jesus was instituting the Eucharist
        
        He gave new meaning to the bread and the wine
      - It was the time that Jesus revealed that he knew one of them would betray him
      - Jesus knew that he would enter the kingdom of God
    - - It is the origin of the Christian Eucharist
      - It is the origin of the new covenant
      - Jesus foretold who would betray him
        
        He has divine power
      - Jesus knew he was going to be persecuted
        
        He lets us know that persecution is part of God's plan
        
        We should have faith in God
    - - "I will drink the new wine in the Kingdom of God"
      - "One of you will betray me"
      - "This is my body"
  - - - Jesus has a human reaction (distress and desire not to die)
        
        Jesus is fully human
      - He has a close and loving relationship with God
        
        He trusts God totally: "All things are possible for you"
      - He was always willing to do God's will rather than his own
        
        "Yet not my want but yours"
      - Jesus understood and forgave the disciples weakness in falling asleep
        
        "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"
      - Jesus is divine
        
        He calls God father
        
        He knows he is from God
    - - Christians believe that Jesus is God (part of the Trinity) but here he appears to want something different to God
      - One being cannot have two wills
      - Jesus seems to want to not die but elsewhere he said that this is what he came to do
    - - "Take this cup of suffering away from me"
      - "Yet not my will, but yours"
      - "All things are possible for you"
- - - - "Come down from the cross and save yourself"
      - "My God, My God, why did you abandon me"
      - "This man was really the Son of God"
    - - The crucifixion fulfilled the scriptures (suffering servant)
      - His suffering was for a purpose - to bring christians new life
      - It showed that God was in control
        
        The sky went dark for 3 hours
      - That Jesus' death was for all people
        
        The first person to recognise Jesus as the son of God was a gentile
    - - It is part of God's plan for salvation
      - It demonstrates God's love
      - It brings about forgiveness of sins
      - Without his death the resurrection could not have happened
      - It fulfils prophecy
  - - - The women saw that he was dead and followed his body to the tomb
        
        No mistake that it was Jesus
      - Only women stayed
        
        Shows importance of women for Christians today
      - The women saw where Jesus was buried
        
        The did not go to the wrong tomb on sunday
      - There is no bias because 3 different groups saw that Jesus was dead (centurion, women, member of the sanhedrin)
  - - - "He is not here, he has been raised"
    - - It is the conclusion of the Gospel
        
        It feels unfinished because the story goes on today
      - It proves that Jesus is divine
      - Jesus had foretold that he would rise from the dead and it fulfils prophecies
      - The resurrection is the foundation of the Christians church
    - - Jesus had foretold that he would rise form the dead
      - Only God could ring someone back from the dead
      - It is important for Christians to know that his death was not in vain
      - The resurrection is the foundation of the Christian Church
      - It proves that Jesus is divine