Jesus rises from the dead and appears to his disciples.

Jesus is executed by the Romans and buried in the presence of his followers.

Jesus concludes the last Jewish Passover by establishing a new covenant (testament) between man and God that will be fully affirmed by the spilling of his own blood at the crucifixion.

Jesus shocks his disciples by predicting the destruction of the Jewish Temple that will accompany the birth of the Christian Church.

Jerusalem's religious leaders increase their verbal attacks on Jesus in an attempt to discredit him and turn the crowds against him.

Jesus enters Jerusalem on the last week of his earthly life and is crowned the King of the Jews by an exuberant crowd of followers.

True discipleship means putting Jesus first in our lives, even if that means letting go of all earthly idols and obstacles.

Jesus' divinity is gloriously revealed on a mountain top to his closest disciples.

Jesus connects his physical miracles of healing the blind with the word of God which heals spiritual blindness.

Jesus strikes at the heart of religious hypocrisy by denouncing the empty works of the Pharisees and preaching a message of inner transformation.