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Palm Sunday
INTRODUCTION
• Palm Sunday: Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem. 
• Holy Monday: Jesus stopped the activity in the Temple. 
• Holy Tuesday: Jesus teaches and argues with the religious leaders in the Temple. 
• Spy Wednesday: Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. 
• Maundy Thursday: Jesus Last Supper with his disciples. 
• Good Friday: Jesus was condemned, crucified, and buried. 
• Holy (Black) Saturday: Jesus’ body in the tomb. 
• Easter Sunday: Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead
Luke 23:27-31 (NIV)
27 A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.  
28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 
29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’  
30 Then “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”     and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ 
31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
• Palm Sunday: Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem. • Holy Monday: Jesus stopped the activity in the Temple. • Holy Tuesday: Jesus teaches and argues with the religious leaders in the Temple. • Spy Wednesday: Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. • Maundy Thursday: Jesus Last Supper with his disciples. • Good Friday: Jesus was condemned, crucified, and buried. • Holy (Black) Saturday: Jesus’ body in the tomb. • Easter Sunday: Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead
Luke 4:28-30 (NIV)
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
Luke 10:13-15 (NIV)
13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.  14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.
Luke 19:41-44 (NIV)
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
Luke 20:9-16 (NIV)
9 He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. 10 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. 12 He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out. 13 “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’ 14 “But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
Luke 23:4,15, 23-24, 25b,26 (NLT)
4 Pilate turned to the leading priests and to the crowd and said, “I find nothing wrong with this man!”… 15 Herod came to the same conclusion and sent him back to us. Nothing this man has done calls for the death penalty… 23 But the mob shouted louder and louder, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their voices prevailed. 24 So Pilate sentenced Jesus to die as they demanded… 25 he turned Jesus over to them to do as they wished. 26 As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.
Luke 23:27-31 (NIV)
27 A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.
28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children
29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
30 Then. “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
CONCLUSION
Luke 23:28 (NIV)
Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.