Passion Week Readings

Dads and Moms: If you want to have devotions with your children this Passion Week, I have summarized readings in each of the Gospels below.  I also included my commentary that is also posted on Journey with Jesus. I pray God will bless you and your children as you spend time with them, reading the word of God this pivotal week. Let us not let the Easter Bunny steal away our children s hearts from being moved by our Lords Passion, Death and Resurrection.


This week is the week of all weeks... the week that changed the destiny of all mankind. It is Passion Week, which is the week of our Lords Passion as He looks toward what He was purposed to do from eternity past... to suffer and die as an innocent man, at the hands of sinful men. In so doing, He made a way for all who believe in Him, to once again have access to God. People were created by God with the intention to be close to Him, to walk with Him every day and talk to Him, just as Adam and Eve did in the garden. But, when they sinned they were separated from God. And all their descendants, all other people to follow them were also separated from God. That is us, here thousands of years later. Jesus, was the second Adam and He came to restore our union with God through faith in Him and the sacrifice He made for us. You see as sinners we all deserve to die and be punished for our sins. He paid the price so we who believe could be forgiven, become new creations so we can have our innocence restored; so we can walk and talk with God.

Christ Mocked by Carl Bloch

You can share in His Passion, share His heart by reading in one or all of the gospels the last week of His life, His Passion Week. It is in this week that Jesus, knowing that He would soon leave this earth, that He told His disciples the things that were most important to Him. You can either choose a book to follow or scan to find the messages that the Lord would have you read. Matthew and Mark are very similar. Luke too, is similar, but has some different stories in it as well. All three of these books have end times prophecy.  John is completely different. There is a lot of emphasis in John on the Last Supper and John recorded many important teachings for His disciples. All of these readings begin with the Triumphal Entry and end at the end of each book. I pray God will bless you each day as you look into Jesus' last week on this earth.


Matthew chapters 21- 28, you will find the Triumphant Entry, Parables of the Two Sons, the Wicked Vine Dressers and the Wedding Feast, the Greatest Commandment, Warnings about false religion, End Times, the Parables of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, The Talents, and the Sheep and the Goats. Then you will find the plot to kill Jesus, His betrayal, Passover, the Last Supper, Gethsemane, Betrayal, the Trials and the death on the cross, Jesus is buried, He is Risen and the Great Commission.


Mark 11-16, you will find the Triumphant Entry, Parable of the Wicked Vine Dressers, Greatest Commandment, Warnings about false religion, End Times, the plot to kill Jesus, the anointing at Bethany, His betrayal, Passover, the Last Supper, Gethsemane, Betrayal, the Trials and the death on the cross, Jesus is buried, He is Risen and the Great Commission.

Jesus before Pontius Pilate

Luke 19:28 - Chapter 24,  you will find the Triumphant Entry, Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem, Parable the Wicked Vine Dressers, the destruction of Jerusalem, End Times, Then you will find the plot to kill Jesus, Disciples argue over greatness, Passover, the Last Supper, Gethsemane,  Betrayal, the Trials and the death on the cross, Jesus is buried, He is Risen, Jesus appears to His disciples, Ascension.


John 12:12- Chapter 21, you will find the Triumphant Entry, the Grain of Wheat, Walk in the Light, Jesus washes His disciples feet, Jesus is the Way, The Father is revealed, Answered Prayer, Another Helper, the Spirit of Truth, Gift of His Peace, The True Vine, Love and Joy, the coming rejection, the Work of the Holy Spirit, Jesus prays for Himself, His disciples, and all other believers, His betrayal and arrest in Gethsemane,  the Trials and the King on a cross, Jesus is buried, the empty tomb, the apostles commissioned, and breakfast by the Sea.