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Scripture to Read: Matthew 26

This week we’re going to focus on Christ’s betrayal, the cross, and finally the resurrection. Our Lord Jesus Christ had spent three years investing in His twelve disciples, plus hundreds of others who had chosen to follow Him. Christ knew He came to fulfill the Father’s will, but that did not make Jesus’s final week any easier. In Matthew 26:1-3, we find the plot to kill Jesus, then in Matthew 26:6-13, Jesus is anointed with costly perfume as a picture of His coming burial. Matthew 26:14-19 lays out for us Judas’s underhanded deal with the chief priests, selling Jesus out for thirty pieces of silver. Matthew 26:20-35, we find Jesus and the disciples having this last Passover together, and Christ instituting the Lord’s Supper. Matthew 26:36-46, we find our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane. We must not miss that our Lord Jesus Christ, even though He knew our Heavenly Father’s perfect will, still prayed and asked the Father, three times, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.” Our Heavenly Father wants us to feel the freedom to ask Him for anything, but not to lose heart if His perfect will does not match our earthly will. Matthew 26:47-68, Jesus is betrayed by Judas, arrested, and then taken before Caiaphas, the high priest. Finally, we have Peter’s denial in Matthew 26:69-75. Jesus went through all of this because of His great love for us.

Challenge & Application

What did you learn today about our Lord that you did not know before, or maybe had forgotten? Who will you share our Lord with this week, so they may know what He did for them?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

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Day 1

This week we’re going to focus on Christ’s betrayal, the cross, and finally the resurrection. Our Lord Jesus Christ had spent three years investing in His twelve disciples, plus hundreds of others who had chosen to follow Him. Christ knew He came to fulfill the Father’s will, but that did not make Jesus’s final week any easier. In Matthew 26:1-3...
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Day 2

Jesus was betrayed, and now all the chief priests and elders are in agreement; they want Jesus put to death. They cannot do this on their own, so they send Jesus to Pilate, the governor, hoping Pilate will render a decision to put Jesus to death. We also find Judas feeling remorse for his awful decision. Note that God’s Word does not say that Ju...
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Day 3

Today we examine Jesus’s second time in front of the governor, Pilate. Jesus’s first experience standing before Pilate is not described in Matthew but it is described in Luke 23:1-6. Pilate did not want to make a judgment about Jesus. According to Luke 23:7, when Pilate learned that Jesus was a Galilean, Pilate knew that Jesus belonged within He...
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Day 4

As we examine Matthew 27:27-32, we have to remember that by this time, Jesus has already been beaten severely by the guards (Mark 14:65; Luke 22:63-65; John 18:22). Jesus would have been bloody, and His face swollen from the beatings He had already taken. Then Jesus was scourged (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1), which was an incredibly int...
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Day 5

Christ underwent the most excruciating torment anyone could ever go through. Christ’s pain was not just physical pain, but it was the deepest, darkest spiritual pain of all time. The soldiers offered Christ wine mixed with gall, which was a drink to help numb the senses from this horrible death. Christ refused the drink because He did not want H...
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Day 6

As we continue to our walk through God’s Word and examine what Christ went through on the cross for us, it is incredibly humbling. We must never forget that our Lord Jesus Christ willingly submitted to our Heavenly Father’s perfect will and laid down His life for all mankind so we could have life everlasting. Christ’s willingness to endure the c...
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Day 7

Our Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross. His body was removed from the cross, and Joseph of Arimathea got permission from Pilate to put Jesus in his own tomb. In Matthew 27:62-66, we find the chief priests and the Pharisees in a meeting with Pilate. These so-called religious leaders were afraid that Jesus’s disciples would steal Jesus’s body, tr...
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