Bible Verses
Work with your child and your students to learn each verse. Then, discuss the meaning of the verse and how it can be applied to everyday lives. On Sundays during class, riding in the car, or at dinner, it's fun to share stories of how the children have used the verse in their lives that week.

We provide memorization verses for each week. You can add your own.

April 5
(KJV) Isa 60:1
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

• Why do we need to rise?
• What is this “light?”
• How do you know that the glory of the Lord is risen upon you?
• How did the people lining the roads on Palm Sunday know that Jesus was the prophesied light?

April 12
(NKJV)  Mark 16:6
But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.

• Who wasn’t to be alarmed?
• Why is it important for the women to see the place where they laid Jesus?
• What is the good news?

April 19
(NCV) Luke 24:32
They said to each other, "It felt like a fire burning in us when Jesus talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us."

• Who is speaking?
• Why did the Scriptures set their hearts on fire?
• How well do we feel God’s Word within ourselves?

April  26
(Message) John 21:17
Then he said it a third time: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was upset that he asked for the third time, "Do you love me?" so he answered, "Master, you know everything there is to know. You've got to know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep."

• Why do you think Jesus asked Peter if he loved him three times?
• Did Peter understand Jesus’ question?
• What does it mean to feed Jesus’ sheep?

Translations used:
CEV Contemporary English Version
GNT Good News Translation
TAB The Amplified Bible
KJV King James Version

Bible Stories
This month’s Bible stories show how Jesus put God first and sought His approval.

Mary Anointed Jesus
Read John 12: 1-8; Mary’s Gift; Mary and Judas

Jesus’ Triumphal Entry
Read Matthew 21: 1-11; Mark 11: 1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19; Make Way for the King

Last Supper
Read Matthew 26:17-36; Mark 14:12-31; Luke 22:7-38; John chapters 13-17; The Lord’s Supper; The Last Supper

Washing of Disciples’ Feet
Read John 13:1-20; Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

Garden of Gethsemane
Read Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:26, 32-42; Luke 22:39-46 Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

Jesus’ Arrest
Read Matthew 26:47-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47-53; Jesus is Arrested

Jesus’ Trials
Read Matthew 26:57-75; 27:1, 2, 11-31; Jesus Goes to Pilate; The Darkest Day in All the World

Jesus is Crucified
Read Matthew 27:32-56; Mark 15:21-41; Luke 23: 26-49; John 19:17-37; Jesus Dies; Jesus is Buried; The Day Jesus Died

He is Risen!
Read John 20:1-10; Luke 24:1-8; Matthew 28:1-8; Mark 16:1-20; The Tomb is Empty; Easter Morning; The Brightest Day of All the World

Morning Meal
Read John 21:1-25; Fish for Breakfast; The Stranger on the Shore

Exercise: Who Am I?
These statements reflect the actions or thoughts of different Bible characters who are mentioned during the time leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion.  On separate index cards, write the statement about the individual on one side and the individual’s name on the opposite side.

Exercise: Who Am I? Part II
This list of statements reflects the actions and thoughts of Bible characters during the time leading up to Jesus’ ascension.  (Part I, above, focused on Bible characters leading up to the crucifixion.) On separate index cards, write the statement about the individual on one side and the individual’s name on the opposite side.

Obviously, you can add more, but that gives you a general idea. Keep the cards for review each Easter season.

Exercise:
Take eight sheets of paper and label each one Sunday through Sunday. Now list all the events that the students know happened each day of Easter Week. Put the sheets on the wall in your class. If your students aren’t sure what happened, look at the Chronology of Events or read directly from one or all of the Gospels.

On the first Sunday, write: the 10^th of Nisan, this is the day the lamb was set aside for sacrifice on the Passover. Discuss the symbolism of Jesus being called the Lamb of God in relation to this day. What else happened on this day? What is this day called in other Christian religions? [Palm Sunday]

Wherever possible, have children draw pictures of some of the events and include under each day. For example, on Sunday – you could have Jesus riding the colt into Jerusalem or complete the Can You Find? exercise, color it, and include the picture with the Sunday information.

• Discuss the activities of the week. As you discuss each day, ask the children to write the important events on the correct day of the week. Have the students color pictures or create pictures for the events and include them on the list for the day.
  • On which day did Jesus remove the money changers? (color Jesus Whipping the Money Changers Out of the Temple)
  • Why did Jesus remove them?
  • What were the money changers doing that was so bad?
  • On which day did Jesus observe the widow putting all her money in the collection?
  • On which day did the fig tree shrivel up?
  • On which day did Jesus wash his disciples’ feet?
  • On which day did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a colt?
  • On which day did Jesus pray in the Garden of Gethsemane?
  • On which day did Peter deny him?
  • On which day were the trials held?
  • On which day was Jesus crucified?
  • On which day was the tomb empty?
• Read the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13)
  • Why did Jesus share this parable?
  • What are we to do?
  • Why didn’t the wise give the foolish some oil?
  • What lesson do you learn from the foolish virgins?
• Read the Parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
  • What talents, skills, abilities do you have?
  • Are you using what God has given you or are you hiding it?
• Add another sheet. Label it “Sightings.” List all the times Jesus appeared to the disciples on the sightings sheet.

Exercise: Easter Fun
Teach your children the real meaning of Easter and have fun, too. This activity has two versions to meet the needs of different age groups.

Version #1, Ages 7-10

Material:

• Colored plastic eggs or
  
  
• Colored envelopes (ones on which the children have drawn the events of Easter week) or
  
  
• Brightly colored index cards
  [Editor's note: You can substitute the envelopes or index cards for the plastic eggs.]

Directions:

• Start this activity 2 to 3 weeks before Easter Sunday by studying the Easter story.
  
  
• Make sure that the children have a solid understanding of the events, the timeline, and their significance.
  
  
• Fill each egg or envelope with a piece of paper that describes an event, i.e. the disciples fall asleep or Mary visits the tomb.
  
  
• Before Sunday school, hide the eggs. If weather permits, hide them outside. Have the children find the eggs and bring them back to the circle. (Make sure you know how many eggs you hid, and that you have all of them back.)
  
  
• Hopefully each child found one or two eggs so you can have them all participate in opening the eggs and reading the events. The more events you record, the more details your students will come to know.
  
  
• As a group, have the students put together the Easter story, event by event.
  
  
• As they retell the story, have them elaborate on the significance of certain events. It is also fun for them to tell the story to a younger class.

Version #2, Ages 4-7

Directions:

Follow version #1, except fill the eggs or envelopes with questions about the Easter story. After they answer the questions, have them tell you the story.

Exercise: List of Spiritual Qualities
Write down all the spiritual qualities they saw Jesus demonstrate on Tuesday, when he visited the Temple.

Exercise: News Reporter
Ask a member of the class to act as a news reporter. He/she has to get the scoop on Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Have students play the role of Jesus, Peter, John, and folks on the road way. Some possible questions to ask:

• Jesus, where did you get your donkey? [Peter and John got the colt in Bethphage]
• Jesus, why aren’t you riding a horse? [check out prophecy – Zech 9:9]
• Individual waving the Palm branch: Why are you here today?

Exercise: Important Words
So often the significance of word meanings is overlooked. After seeing the Mel Gibson movie, “Passion of the Christ,” one child told his Sunday school teacher he didn’t know that crucifixion could kill you. Help your pupils understand the important words and their significance concerning Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.

• Ask the students to define:
  • Palm Sunday
  • Garden of Gethsemane
  • Passover
  • Crucifixion
  • Resurrection
  • Ascension
  • Scourge
  • Money changers
  • Pharisees
  • Scribes
  • Sanhedrin
  • Last supper
  • Betray
  • Passion
  • Add your own

Washing Your Pupils Feet
You might want to actually wash your pupils' feet. Bring a basin, towels, water, and lotion. While washing their feet, ask students to read John 13:1-17. Let them wash your feet, if they offer. The most important part of this activity is discussing how they felt.

• What did you think when I asked if I could wash your feet?
• What was it like to have your SS teacher wash your feet?
• How do you think the disciples felt when Jesus washed their feet?
• Could you understand why Peter was reluctant to let Jesus wash his feet?
• What does this activity symbolize?
• Why did Jesus wash their feet?
• Why don't we wash each other's feet today?

I did this activity a few years ago with my Sunday school class. It received mixed reviews, initially. When the SS secretary came around for the collection, she was curious about the activity and asked if we'd wash her feet. The pupils jumped at the opportunity and shared the story of Jesus washing his disciples' feet. They, in turn, asked her how she felt. She loved it and it was difficult to get her to leave. She thought the lotion on the feet was quite nice. After washing my feet, we all sat on the floor and talked about what it would have been like at that Passover meal. We discussed how we could symbolically take "foot washing" to a modern day level of caring for each other regardless of age or position in the church, school, or community. You might ask them if there is anyone whose feet they wouldn’t want to wash and discuss why.

Re-enact Jesus’ Trials
Re-enact Jesus’ trials – without the spitting and hitting. Students or teachers can write out the scripts from the Bible verses. Or you can discuss each of the places Jesus is taken after his arrest and discuss the fairness of the trials.

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The first stop is to meet with Annas. He asks Jesus incriminating questions, which he isn’t allowed to do. Jesus is hit by a soldier.

Then Jesus is taken to Caiaphas before the Sanhedrin. The high priest, Caiaphas, questions Jesus. When Jesus says he is the Son of God, the Jews hit the jack pot – now they can take him to the Roman officials for blasphemy since the Jews can’t kill him by crucifixion. Crucifixion was a crime only carried out by the Roman government. If the Jews could have killed him, it would have been by stoning.

Pilate doesn’t want anything to do with Jesus’ death. He thinks he’s innocent. He realizes the Jews are jealous of Jesus. But the Jews blackmail him into acting.

Pilate sends Jesus to Herod Antipas because Jesus is a Galilean and not under his jurisdiction. Jesus doesn’t say anything to Herod so Herod lets his soldiers mock Jesus by dressing him in a purple robe and a crown of thorns and shouting: Hail King of the Jews.

Jesus is sent back to Pilate where he is scourged 39 times. Then Pilate suggests they follow a tradition and let a prisoner go free. The crowd wants Barabbas freed and they want the Romans to kill Jesus.

Why couldn’t Jesus get a fair trial?

Exercise: I Am
Assign each student a disciple’s name and then have them all create clues about who he is.

For example: Clues:

• I fell asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane.
• I cut off a soldier’s ear.
• I bragged I’d always defend Jesus.
• I denied Jesus – 3 times.
• I helped start the early Christian church.

Answer: Peter

The class members try to guess the name on the first clue. They earn the points of the numbered clue that leads to the right answer. Lowest score wins.

Other examples:

• I am a fisherman.
• My brother and I are known as the “sons of thunder.”
• I was the first disciple martyred.
• My brother was Jesus’ youngest disciple.

Answer:  James

• I was the treasurer for Jesus’ disciples.
• I objected to Mary pouring expensive ointment on Jesus’ feet.
• I sold information about Jesus to the Jews for 30 pieces of silver.
• I betrayed Jesus.

Answer:  Judas

• I asked Jesus questions about how to get to heaven.
• I told the disciples I wouldn’t believe Jesus was resurrected unless I could put my fingers in the nail prints.
• Jesus forgave me for my doubts.

Answer: Thomas

• I am probably the most aggressive disciple Jesus has.
• I am known as a Zealot.
• I am willing to die for Jesus.

Answer:  Simon the Zealot

• I was a tax collector until Jesus invited me to travel with him.

  Answer:  Matthew

• My brother is a fisherman with me.
• We are the sons of Zebedee.
• Jesus usually called on me to help him.
• I was the first to realize Jesus had not died.

Answer:  John

And so on.

Exercise: Forgiveness
Help your pupils to understand forgiveness, how to give it and how to feel it. You might want to try this exercise; it works with all grade levels. What would you do if someone pushed you from behind? Many kids say they would yell, or push them back, or ask why they did it or explain how rude that was. Then ask your students how they would feel if they discovered the person pushing them was blind? You'll see it in their eyes - it is an immediate shift to compassion - the point of forgiveness. Pushing is no longer an issue; and instead they find themselves wanting to help the other person. This "scenario" makes for great discussions on the wonderful love Jesus had for everyone.

Exercise: What Would You Have Done?
Ages- Teenagers and above

What would you have done? Would you have stood by Jesus at his trial? Many of us would like to think we would have, but would we really? This exercise helps students consider these important questions.

Begin this exercise by having the students study the Easter story. Break up the class into pairs and assign each pair to a topic or event. Have them use several different Bibles, concordances, and books that give them information on the culture. At the end of class, have them share the information with the whole group. By the end of class, the students should have a solid understanding of the events, people, culture, and mind set related to the Easter story.

For the next class bring prepared index cards to hand out to the students. Each child will pick a card that assigns a character to him. You can make these characters real people from the Bible, or fictitious people of the time period. The information on the cards will have:

Name - Use names you find in the Bible ( ex. Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha, Lazarus, Simon the Leper, Joseph, Peter, James,  Judas, or Malchus)
Gender
Occupation
Race (Jew or Gentile)
Believer or nonbeliever in Jesus

Include any other information that would make this character come to life.

Using these characters, have the students ask and explore the above topic. Some sample questions might be:

• How would they respond at the trial?
  
• How did their stand affect them?
  
• Were you at the crucifixion?
  
• What did you think when you heard of Jesus' resurrection?
  
• How did this affect your life?

You can now take this to the next level and ask the students:

• Do you stand by Christ now?
  
• Are you a disciple?
  
• How are you following Christ in your daily life?

— Sally S. Johnston

Exercise: Get out your crayons and enjoy coloring four of the Easter pictures.

Exercise: Mary Anoints Jesus’ Feet

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Exercise: We Praise Jesus

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Exercise: Can You Find

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Exercise: Forgiveness

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Exercise: What the Angel Said

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Exercise: At the Tomb

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Exercise: Angel at the Tomb

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Exercise: Jesus is Alive

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Exercise: Find the Answers: John 14

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Exercise: Create the Picture (Palm Sunday)

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Exercise: Donkey Ride Maze

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Exercise: Create the Picture (Debate with Pharisees)

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Exercise: Sign on the Cross

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Exercise: Death and Resurrection

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Exercise: True or False

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Exercise: Unscramble: The Women and the Angel

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Exercise: Arimathea

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Exercise: Major Detective Work

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Exercise: On the Road to Emmaus

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Exercise: Who Were the Disciples that Followed Jesus

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Mary Anointed Jesus
Read John 12: 1-8; Mary’s Gift; Mary and Judas

• Re-tell the story of Jesus’ visit to Bethany.
• Why was Jesus in town?
• Who served dinner?
• Who anointed Jesus’ feet at the supper in Bethany?
• What kind of ointment did Mary put on Jesus’ feet? (spikenard)
• What was the cost of this ointment? (300 dinars, equal to a full salary for a common laborer. Philip told Jesus it would take 200 dinars to buy enough bread to feed the 5,000)
• Who objected to this extravagant use of the perfumed ointment?
• What did Judas say should be done with the ointment? What did Jesus say to Judas?
• How would you have felt if you were Judas -- being told you were wrong in front of so many people?
• What do you think Judas did after this event?
• Why was it important for Mary to anoint Jesus’ feet?
• Why did Jesus appreciate her kind gesture?

Jesus’ Triumphal Entry
Read Matthew 21: 1-11; Mark 11: 1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19; Make Way for the King

• Discuss the story of Jesus’ ride from Bethany to Jerusalem.
• Why did Jesus do this? (fulfillment of prophecy)
• Who prophesied he’d arrive on a colt? (Zech 9:9)
• What did the people do when they saw Jesus coming down the road?
• Why are the people rejoicing?
• What are they singing?
• How does this song compare with what the angels sang at Jesus’ birth?
• What did the people do as Jesus passed by?
• Why is this day called “Palm Sunday”?

Last Supper
Read Matthew 26:17-36; Mark 14:12-31; Luke 22:7-38; John 13-17; The Lord’s Supper; The Last Supper

• Read the story of the last supper from each of the Gospels.
• Compare how each story is similar and different in each Gospel.
• Who was sent to inquire about an upper room?
• What was eaten at the Passover?
• What unusual things happened at the meal?
• How many people were there?
• What was different about this Passover compared to one in Moses’ day? (At Moses’ Passover, they stood to eat and by Jesus’ time they reclined)
• Why didn’t the disciples know who was going to betray Jesus?
• What did Jesus tell them about the betrayer?
• Why did Jesus give them bread after the meal? (that bread is known as the afterdish; it’s broken from the bread at the beginning of the meal and set aside)
• What lessons did the disciples learn at the last supper?

Washing of Disciples’ Feet
Read John 13:1-20; Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

• Why did Jesus wash their feet?
• How did the disciples feel about that?
• Which one objected?
• What did Jesus tell him?
• Would you let Jesus wash your feet?
• Why is it important to serve?
• What does serving mean to you?
• How would you serve at home? Church? School?
• What does it mean to have our feet washed?
• Why is it important to be willing to wash someone else’s feet?
• Ask your parents if you can wash each other’s feet.

Garden of Gethsemane
Read Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:26, 32-42; Luke 22:39-46 Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

• Ask the students to tell the story of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
• Why is Jesus in the Garden?
• Who is with him?
• What did Jesus ask them to do?
• Did they do it?
• Could you have done it?
• Why do you think it was so hard to stay awake?
• What did Jesus ask God?
• What is the difference between human will and divine will?

Jesus’ Arrest
Read Matthew 26:47-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47-53; Jesus is Arrested

• When was Jesus arrested?
• Who brought the soldiers to Jesus?
• What was the sign that let the soldiers know whom to arrest?
• How did Jesus greet Judas?
• Could you have called someone your friend if he or she had you arrested?
• What did Peter do to one of the soldiers?
• Who healed the soldier’s ear?
• What does that tell you about Jesus’ character?
• Why didn’t Jesus and the disciples fight the soldiers?
• What did Jesus tell the soldiers?
• How did Judas feel after Jesus was arrested?
• Would you have fought like Peter or run away like the other disciples?

Jesus’ Trials
Read Matthew 26:57-75; 27:1,2; 11-31; Jesus Goes to Pilate; The Darkest Day in All the World

• Where was Jesus taken first? [Annas – owned the booths in the temple used by the money changers. They also needed a place to keep him until the 70 members of the Sanhedrin arrived.]
• Did Annas have any authority? [No, but he wanted to get even with Jesus. He asked him questions that he wasn’t allowed by law to ask.]
• How did Jesus respond? [He told him to get witnesses and do it right.]
• Why did the guard hit Jesus? [Because he didn’t think Jesus should tell Annas how to do his job.]
• Where did they take Jesus next? [to Caiaphas, the high priest, before the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court of the Jews)]
• Did the Jews have the authority to kill Jesus? [Not really, if they could it would be by stoning]
• What did Caiaphas ask Jesus? [Are you the Son of God?]
• What was Jesus’ response? [different Gospels give different answers – compare the responses]
• Where did Caiaphas send Jesus? [Governor Pilate – Roman official]
• Did Pilate think Jesus was guilty of any crime? [No or he wouldn't have tried so hard to release him]
• Where did Pilate send Jesus? [Herod Antipas]
• Why did he send him to Herod? [Jesus was a Galilean and Herod was in control of that area]
• What did Herod ask Jesus to do? [miracles, talk]
• What did his soldiers do to Jesus? [put a purple robe and a crown of thorns on him, spit and hit him]
• Where did Herod send Jesus? [back to Pilate]
• What did Pilate have the soldiers do to him? [scourge him]
• What is scourging?
• Why was it barbaric? [ 40 lashes would kill a man, so they only whipped Jesus 39 times.]
• What was the Roman tradition at Passover? [to release a Jewish prisoner]
• Which prisoner did the Jews want released? [Barabbas]
• What were his crimes? [blasphemy - declaring he was the son of God]
• Why wasn’t it possible for Jesus to get a fair trial? [couldn’t really call any of them trials]
• What is mob mentality?
• What does this experience teach about hate?

Jesus is Crucified
Read Matthew 27:32-56; Mark 15:21-41; Luke 23: 26-49; John 19:17-37; Jesus Dies; Jesus is Buried; The Day Jesus Died

• After the release of Barabbas, what did they do to Jesus? [They made him carry the horizontal bar of the cross through town to be crucified.]
• Who was hanged on either side of Jesus?
• What had they done wrong?
• Who was at the foot of the cross? [each gospel is slightly different]
• What kinds of things did people say about Jesus?
• Did he take any of the medicated drink for the pain?
• What did he drink? [vinegar to quench his thirst]
• What did Jesus say on the cross?

There are seven sayings:

• Luke 23:34
• Luke 23:43
• John 19:26,27
  • How thoughtful of Jesus to care for his mother when he was on the cross!
• Matthew 27:46 read Ps. 22:1 with this
  • Do you think Jesus really thought God had forsaken him?
  • Why do you think Jesus quoted Ps. 22:1?
• John 19:28
• John 19:30
• Luke 23:46
  • What do all these verses say about Jesus’ character?
• What happened after Jesus said, “finished”?
• What is significant about the veil in the temple being ripped in two? [The veil (actually it had become a thick curtain, about 4 inches thick) covered the Holy of Holies where the Jews believed God lived. Only once a year could a priest could go into the Holy of Holies. Now people would have free and direct access to God, fulfilling Jesus statement, “I and my Father are one.” We, too, would be one with God.]
• Who asked if he could bury Jesus’ body? [Joseph of Arimathea]
• Who did he ask? [Pilate]
• What did the soldiers do to prove Jesus was dead? [Put a spear in his side]
• Who helped Joseph with Jesus’ body? [Nicodemus]
• Why did they have to get Jesus in the tomb before 6:00 PM? [They couldn’t work on the Jewish Sabbath.]
• What did the Jews ask Pilate? [To put guards around the tomb to make sure no one took Jesus’ body.]

He is Risen!
Read John 20:1-10; Luke 24:1-8; The Tomb is Empty; Easter Morning; The Brightest Day of All the World

• Who was first to arrive at Jesus’ tomb? [Read each Gospel – the answers are different.]
• What did “they” discover?
• Who went to get Peter and John?
• What did they do? [They out-ran Mary Magdalene.]
• What did they discover?
• Who recognized Jesus wasn’t a victim of grave robbers? [John]
• When Mary Magdalene returned to the tomb, what did she find?
• Whom did she think she was talking to?
• When her name was spoken, how did she respond?
• Why is this referred to as the greatest recognition story in history?

Walk to Emmaus
Read Luke 24:13-32

• Who did Jesus encounter on the walk to Emmaus?
• What did they tell Jesus about what had happened in Jerusalem?
• What did Jesus tell them?
• What did they feel after Jesus told about himself in the scriptures? [their hearts burned within]
• Why did Jesus look like he was going on past Emmaus? [He didn’t want to intrude on their dinner.]
• What did Jesus do at dinner?
• When did they recognize Jesus?
• What did they do when they recognized Jesus?
• Did they moan and complain about how stupid they were?
• They didn’t let self-condemnation get in the way of telling the good news about Jesus’ resurrection.
• How did Jesus’ disciples greet each other after they found the empty tomb? [He is risen!]

Morning Meal
Read John 21:1-24; Fish for Breakfast; The Stranger on the Shore

• Who was out fishing?
• Where was Jesus?
• What did Jesus ask the disciples in the boat?
• What was their answer?
• What did Jesus tell them to do with their nets?
• How many fish did they catch this time?
• Did Jesus need their fish to fix breakfast?
• Who jumped out of the boat?
• After the breakfast, what did Jesus ask Peter three times?
• What was Peter’s response?
• What did Jesus tell him to do each time?
• Why do you think Jesus asked him this question three times?
• What do you think Jesus wanted Peter to do?
• When Peter asks about the “other” disciple, what does Jesus say to Peter? 
• What does that say to us in living our lives?