Páscoa
A Páscoa é a celebração suprema da redenção. Do cordeiro pascal no Egito ao Cordeiro de Deus que tira o pecado do mundo, ela aponta para o sacrifício e a vitória de Cristo.
A caminhada para a cruz
Jesus entrou em Jerusalém como Rei humilde, e a multidão o aclamou. Ele sabia do sofrimento que viria, mas caminhou em obediência até o fim.
9 The and crowds those going before and those following did cry, saying: Hosanna to the son of David; worthy of blessing he coming in name of Lord; hosanna in the highest.
18 Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the son of the man will be delivered up to the highpriests and scribes; and they will condemn him to death,19 and they will deliver up him to the Gentiles for the to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and in the third day he will stand up.
A paixão de Cristo
Jesus foi zombado, açoitado e crucificado. Ele orou no Getsêmani e entregou sua vida voluntariamente, dizendo: 'Está consumado!'
28 And having stripped him, they put on to him a soldiers cloak scarlet.29 And braiding a crown of thorns, placed upon the head of him, and a reed of the right of him; and bending the knee in presence of him, mocked him, saying: Hail, the king of the Jews.
37 And they placed above the head of him the accusation of him having been written: This is Jesus the king of the Jews.
36 And he said: Abba the Father, all (things) possible to thee; take the cup from me this. But not, what I will, but what thou.
46 And crying with a voice loud the Jesus, said: O Father, into hands of thee I commit the breath of me. And these having said, he breathed out.
30 When therefore took the vinegar the Jesus said: It has been finished; and having inclined the head, he gave up the spirit.
A ressurreição gloriosa
Ele não está aqui — ressuscitou! O túmulo vazio é a prova de que a morte foi derrotada e Cristo vive para sempre.
5 Answering and the messenger said to the women: Not be afraid you; I know for, that Jesus that having been crucified you seek.6 Not he is here; he has been raised for, even as he said. Come see the place, where lay the Lord.
6 He but says to them: Not be you amazed; Jesus you seek the Nazarene, the having been crucified; he has been raised, not he is here; see the place, where they laid him.
6 Not he is here, but has been raised. Remember you how he spoke to you, while being in the Galilee,7 saying: That it behooves the son of the man to be delivered into hands of men of sinners, and to be crucified, and the third day to stand up.
8 Then therefore went in also the other disciple, he coming first into the tomb, and saw, and believed.9 Not yet for they knew the writing, that it behooved him out of dead ones to have been raised.