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PDFto throw the mind back to the time when the commemorated
events occurred, and to follow, step by step, the
last days of the Son of Man, living, as it were, through
those last hours, so that I might be ready to kneel
before the cross on Good Friday, to stand beside the
sepulchre on Easter Day. In order to facilitate
the realisation of those last sacred days of God incarnate
on earth, working out man’s salvation, I resolved
to write a brief history of that week, compiled from
the Four Gospels, meaning them to try and realise
each day the occurrences that had happened on the
corresponding date in A.D. 33, and so to follow those
“blessed feet” step by step, till they
were
“... nailed for our advantage to the bitter cross.”
With the fearlessness which springs from ignorance I sat down to my task. My method was as follows:—
MATTHEW. | MARK. | LUKE. | JOHN. | | | PALM SUNDAY. | PALM SUNDAY. | PALM SUNDAY. | PALM SUNDAY. | | | Rode into | Rode into | Rode into | Rode into Jerusalem. | Jerusalem. | Jerusalem. | Jerusalem. Purified the | Returned to | Purified the | Spoke in Temple. Returned | Bethany. | Temple. | the Temple. to Bethany. | | Note: “Taught | | | daily in the | | | temple.” | | | | MONDAY. | MONDAY. | MONDAY. | MONDAY. | | | Cursed the | Cursed the | Like Matthew. | —— fig-tree. | fig-tree. | | Taught in the | Purified the | | Temple, and spake | Temple. Went | | many parables. | out of city. | | No breaks shown, | | | but the fig-tree | | | (xxi.19) did not | | | wither till | | | Tuesday (see | | | Mark). | | | | | | TUESDAY. | TUESDAY. | TUESDAY. | TUESDAY. | | | All chaps. xxi. | Saw fig-tree | Discourses | —— 20, xxii.-xxv., | withered up. | No date | spoken on | Then . | shown. | Tuesday, for xxvi. | discourses | | 2 gives Passover | | | as “after two | | | days.” | | | | | | WEDNESDAY. | WEDNESDAY. | WEDNESDAY. | WEDNESDAY. | | | Blank. | —— | —— | —— (Possibly remained in Bethany; the alabaster box of oinment.) | | | THURSDAY. | THURSDAY. | THURSDAY. | THURSDAY. | | |
