Lesson 5, Unit 1, Choice 1: Overview of the Last Week of the Savior’s Mortal Ministry

Read the information in the institute student manual about “The Last Days of Jesus’ Mortal Mission” (pp. 135–37). Then fill in the following chart with key events that took place during the Savior’s final week of mortality:

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7 (Sabbath)	Day of the Resurrection
Jesus rode through the city gates on a donkey with people praising him and shouting hosanna and placing palm branches in his way. He went to the temple and took note of the things he saw and then retired to Bethany.	Jesus drove the merchants and money exchangers out from the outer court area of the temple and thereby challenged the leadership of the Jewish leaders of the temple. At night he returned to Bethany.	Jesus went again to the temple and the priests challenged him. Jesus related a series of parables that offended the religious leaders. They plotted to have him put to death. Judas offered to betray Jesus.	Jesus knew of the plot against him. He spent this day outside of the city, possibly at Bethany.	Jesus observed the Passover meal with the Twelve. Jesus introduced the ordinance of the Sacrament and prophesied of his death. Jesus offered his intercessory prayer and went to Gethsemane with his disciples. Jesus prayed to Heavenly Father and suffered as he took on the sins of the world. An armed band led by Judas seized Jesus and brought him to trial.	The Jewish leaders arranged to have Jesus charged with blasphemy and sedition, for which he was convicted by Pilate and sentenced to death by crucifixion. Later that afternoon Jesus voluntarily gave up his spirit. His body was removed from the cross and buried in a sealed tomb by two disciples.	Jesus’s body remained in the tomb, but in spirit he ministered in the realm of departed spirits.	Jesus Christ emerged alive from the tomb, and appeared before Mary.

For some reason, doing this activity left me greatly impressed with Jesus's resurrection. I was raised in the church and grew up hearing about how on Easter we celebrate Christ's resurrection, but for some reason until now I just never really appreciated it. I think it might because this is the first time I've really thought about all of the events leading up to his death and resurrection, so it's the first time that it actually seems real to me. I'm able to imagine it all much more clearly and put myself in the shoes of Mary and the disciples that he visited in his resurrected body, and imagine how amazing that must have been to see. I think I now have a much greater appreciation for Christ's divinity and what a miraculous, wonderful event his resurrection was. It makes it much more believable to me that I, too, will be resurrected someday, just as Christ was, and that is only possible because of him.