Today I watched my son nailed to a cross, lifted up high and left to die. 

Barabbas is a known murderer.  According to tradition, Pilate has to release one prisoner during the feast so it looks as though Jesus will be ok after all. Pilate is hardly going to release a murderer!

A crowd had gathered round her and were listening to what she had to say.  Maybe she has some news, I thought, so I joined the crowd.

After they’d celebrated Passover, Jesus and his disciples went to a place called Gethsemane.  It is a garden where they often go but, this time, Jesus seemed different.  The disciples felt ill at ease. 

They were all sitting round the table, relaxing, when Jesus told them that he had really wanted to eat this Passover with them before he suffered.  Suffered??  There goes that sword again…

I’m not sure if that made the disciples feel any better, but they did it anyway.

That must have been really nice for Mary to hear, when Judas was just criticising her. 

Jesus knew how ill Lazarus was, so why did he delay?  He loves Lazarus. It doesn’t make sense.

Jesus was going to die…I wanted to go and get Jesus, lock him in my house and never let him go.  

In the end, there was only Jesus and the woman left. 

I was so scared for Jesus today.

The crowds were surrounding them by now, the disciples didn’t even have chance to eat.

How will you give Him honour and worship today?

But the dilemma now was whether or not he could bear to lose face in front of his guests.  He had promised Herodias’s daughter whatever she wanted. 

If one of their first thoughts was going home to pack before setting off, they had another think coming! 

Thinking about it, Jesus is being pretty gracious in coming back at all…

Tears were blurring my vision and I had to get away from there.

He muttered to himself that, if Jesus really was a prophet, he would have known what sort of woman she was.

The sort of jar I am talking about is really expensive…maybe it was a family heirloom.

If you look back over last week, what ‘great things’ do you see has God done for you?