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Story of Easter
Jesus had spent the last three years telling and showing people about God. He
had performed miracles, healing people, feeding big crowds, and even bringing
people back to life. Jesus was travelling to Jerusalem to celebrate a special
festival, called Passover.
Jesus was with his friends as they celebrated the festival of Passover by having
a special meal together. During the meal, Jesus told his disciples that he was
going to die soon. He picked up some of the bread and said thank you to God
for it. He then tore the bread into smaller pieces and gave it to his to friends. He
told them to eat it. Jesus said, ‘This is like my body which I’m giving for you. Eat
this as a way of remembering me. After the meal, Jesus took a glass of wine
and held it up. He said, ‘This is like my blood, which will be poured out for you’.
Jesus went to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane. His friends were with him. He
asked them to pray too but Jesus went o昀昀 on his own. Jesus asked God to help
him. When he went back to his friends, he found that they had all fallen asleep!
As he was waking them up, a crowd of people came towards him and Judas,
who had been one of his twelve closest friends, was leading them. Judas kissed
Jesus on the cheek. This was the sign to the soldiers to arrest Jesus and that is
what they did.
The next day the city o昀케cials took Jesus to Pilate and then to Herod, who were
both rulers of the area. Pilate wanted to let Jesus go free, because he did not
think he should be killed, but the crowd shouted for Pilate to have Jesus killed.
Pilate decided to do what they wanted and let the soldiers take Jesus away to
be killed.
Jesus was taken to a hill where he was nailed to a wooden cross. The soldiers
teased Jesus saying to him ‘If you are God’s chosen one and have so much
power then why don’t you save yourself?’ But Jesus just said ‘Father, forgive
these people, they don’t know what they are doing.’ Even though it was the
middle of the day the sun stopped shining and it became dark for three hours.
Jesus shouted, ‘Father, I put myself in your hands!’ Then he died.
Jesus’ body was buried in a tomb that had been cut into a rock and they rolled
a large stone in front of the opening. Early on Sunday morning, a woman
went to visit his tomb, but they found the stone had been rolled away from the
entrance. They went in but Jesus’ body was not there. They didn’t understand
what had happened. Suddenly two men appeared, they were wearing shining
white clothes. They were angels. They said, ‘Jesus isn’t here! He is alive! It has
happened just like he said it would.’