Chapter 26

26:1-5, 6-13, 14-16, 17-19, 20-25, 26-30, 31-35 Discuss these events with some young people. Help them to make dramatic stories about the events. Help them to act those stories in their neighbourhoods.

Help some young people to make pictures that show these events.

26:1 What did Jesus do? Who was present?

26:2 What did they know? Make a list of the new information that Jesus gave to them. What might the disciples have thought about that?

26:3 Who met? Where did they meet? In whose palace did they meet? What do you think about the fact that the chief priest had a palace?

26:4 What plans did those men make? What did they want to achieve?

26:5 What should they not do? Why was that? What do you think about that idea?

26:6 Where was Jesus eating? What was the problem with Simon’s health? What name did they give him? What do you think about all that?

26:7 What do you learn about the ‘woman’? What happened to Jesus? What do you think about all that?

26:8 What was the disciples’ reaction? What might be the reason why that happened? What do you think about that?

26:9 What might the woman have done? What else might people have done with the money?

26:10 What did Jesus know? What did he do? What did he say about what the ‘woman’ had done? What do you think about that?

26:11 What do you learn about ‘poor people’? What did Jesus say about himself?

26:12 Why had the woman ‘poured this perfume’? What would happen to Jesus’ body?

26:13 What will ‘people’ do? What news will people tell? What ‘story’ will they always tell? What do you think about all that?

26:14 What do you learn about one of the 12 disciples? What did he do?

26:15 What did he want? What might be the reason why he wanted that? What did those men give to him?

26:16 What happened ‘after that’? Why was that? What do you think about all that? Look also at 26:14-15.

26:17 What ‘day’ was it? What did the disciples do? What did they want to know?

26:18 What should the disciples do? What should they tell the man? If you had been the man, what might you have thought about this?

26:19 What did the disciples do? What happened?

26:20 What was happening? What do you know about the occasion? Look also at 26:17-19.

26:21 What were they doing? What news did Jesus give to them?

26:22 What was the disciples’ reaction? What did they do?

26:23 What was Jesus’ reaction? What did he tell the disciples?

26:24 What will the Son of Man do? What did people know about that? Who would be better if he had never lived? What do you think about that?

26:25 Who was Judas? What was his question? What do you think about this conversation?

26:26 What were ‘they’ doing? What did Jesus do? What explanation did Jesus give?

26:27 What did Jesus do next? What should the disciples do?

26:28 What would Jesus’ blood represent? What effect would Jesus’ blood have?

26:29 What did Jesus do? What message did he give? What do you think about that message?

26:30 What did they do? Where did they go?

26:31 What did Jesus warn them about? What did someone write in the scriptures about that night? What did Jesus say about someone who was looking after sheep?

26:32 What would happen? What would Jesus do after that?

26:33 What was Peter’s reply? What do you think about that?

26:34 Who was talking? To whom was he talking? What would happen? What do you think about that?

26:35 What would Peter ‘never say’? What might Peter have to do? Who agreed with Peter?

26:36-46, 47-56, 57-68, 69-75; 27:1-10 Discuss these events with some young people. Help them to make dramatic stories about the events. Help them to act those stories in their neighbourhoods.

Help some young people to make pictures that show these events.

26:36 Where did Jesus go? What did he do and what did he say?

26:37 Whom did he take with him? What might be the reason why he took Zebedee’s sons? Look also at 4:21; 10:2; 20:20-23. What else happened?

26:38 What happened? What information did Jesus give to them? What should the disciples do?

26:39 What happened? What did Jesus ask for? What was the special difficulty? What do you think about all that?

26:40 What happened next? What did he see? What did he say? What do you think about that?

26:41 What should the disciples do? What is the difficulty? What do you think about all that?

26:42 What happened? What was the question? What was the answer? What do you think about that?

26:43 What happened? What do you think about that?

26:44 Make a list of the things that Jesus did. What do you think about all that?

26:45 What did Jesus do next? What did he say that they should not be doing? What was the situation?

26:46 What should they do? What was happening?

26:47 What happened while Jesus was speaking? Who came? Who had sent them? What do you think about all that?

26:48 What would Judas do? What had he already done? What do you think about that?

26:49 What happened? What do you think about that?

26:50 What was Jesus’ reply? What did the men do? What do you think about that?

26:51 Whom do we read about? What happened? What do you think about that?

26:52 What was Jesus’ instruction? What did he explain about that? Why was it not a good idea to use the sword? What do you think about that?

26:53 To whom can Jesus call? What kind of help can Jesus receive? What do you think about that?

26:54 Why would Jesus not call to his Father for help? What would not have come true then? Look also at 26:53. What do you think about all this?

26:55 What was Jesus ‘not’ doing? What did the crowd not need to do? What had happened ‘every day’? What had they not done?

26:56 What had happened? What did the disciples do? What do you think about all that?

26:57 What did the ‘people’ do? To whose house did they go? Who else had ‘come together’? What do you think about all that?

26:58 Make a list of the things that happened. What do you think about that?

26:59 Who wanted what? For what did they look? What do you think about that?

26:60 Who ‘came’? What did they do? What did the leaders find? What happened ‘at last’? What do you think about all that?

26:61 What did the witnesses tell them? What might that really mean? What might the witnesses have meant by it?

26:62 What happened? What were the questions? What do you think about all that?

26:63 How did Jesus reply? What was the high priest’s reaction? What did he want Jesus to do? What was the most important question? Why was that so?

26:64 How did Jesus reply? Make a list of the facts in his reply. What do you think about Jesus’ reply?

26:65 What happened? What do you think about the statements? In what way did the high priest think that Jesus had ‘spoken evil words against God’?

26:66 What was the question? What was the answer? What do you think about all that?

26:67 Make a list of the things that happened. What do you think about that?

26:68 What did the men demand? Might Jesus have known the answer? Why might he choose not to answer?

26:69 Where was Peter? What happened? What do you think about that?

26:70 What happened? What might be the reason why Peter answered in that way?

26:71 What did Peter do? What happened there? Of what did the woman accuse Peter? What do you think about that?

26:72 What did Peter do? What was a special problem with what Peter said? What do you think about all that?

26:73 What happened? What ‘must’ Peter be? Why was that? What do you think about that?

26:74 What did Peter tell them? What were the special problems with that? What happened next? What do you think about that?

26:75 What happened? What had Jesus told Peter? What did Peter do? What do you think about all that?