Chapter 27

27:1 What time in the day was it? Who decided what? What do you think about all that?

27:2 What did those men do to Jesus? What might be the reason why they did that?

27:3 What had Judas done? What did Judas see? Then what happened? What do you think about all that?

27:4 What did Judas say that he had done? What reply did ‘they’ give to him? What do you think about all that?

27:5 Make a list of the things that Judas did. What do you think about all that?

27:6 What did the chief priests do? What discussion did they have? What was the problem?

27:7 What did they decide? For what would they use the field? Who owned the field? What do you think about all that?

27:8 What do you learn? What might be the reason why they gave that name to it? Look also at 27:6. What do you think about all that?

27:9 What came true? What were ‘the 30 silver coins’? Look also at 26:14-16; 27:3-6. What do you think about all that?

27:10 What did they do? What else do you learn about what happened? What do you think about all that?

27:11-14, 15-26, 27-31, 32-44, 45-56, 57-61, 62-66 Discuss these events with some children. Work with them to make a dramatic story about the events. Help them to act that story for their families and friends.

Help some children to make pictures that show these events.

27:11 What happened ‘meanwhile’? What do you think about that?

27:12 What happened? What do you think about that?

27:13 What was the question? What do you think about it?

27:14 What happened? Why was the Roman ruler astonished?

27:15 What custom did Pilate have? What might be the reason why he chose to free a Jewish person? What might be the reason why that happened at the time called Passover?

27:16 What was the situation at the time? What do you think about that?

27:17 What happened? What was the choice? What do you think about which men they could choose?

27:18 What did Pilate know? What do you think about that?

27:19 What was Pilate doing? What was his wife doing? What did she say that he should do? What do you think about that?

27:20 Who persuaded whom to do what? What did the crowd do?

27:21 What did Pilate do? What did the people do?

27:22 What was the question? What was the answer? What do you think about all that?

27:23 What were Pilate’s questions? How did the people answer? What did they say that they wanted? What do you think about that?

27:24 What did Pilate decide? Of what might he have been afraid? What did he do? What did he mean by what he said?

27:25 How did the crowd reply? What do you think about that?

27:26 What did Pilate do? What happened next? What do you think about all that?

27:27 What do you learn about the soldiers?

27:28 What did the soldiers do to Jesus? What might be the reason why they did that?

27:29 Make a list of the things that the soldiers did. What might be the reason why they did each thing? What do you think about all that?

27:30 Make a list of the things that ‘they’ did. What might ‘they’ have wanted to achieve? Why were they able to do what they did? What do you think about all that?

27:31 Make a list of the things that happened. What do you think about what ‘they’ did?

27:32 What happened? Which people do we read about? What do you think about all that?

27:33 What do you learn? What do you think about that?

27:34 What did ‘they’ offer to Jesus? What did he do with it? What do you think about that?

27:35, 36 What happened? What do you think about all that?

27:37 What did ‘they’ do? What did the words on the ‘sign’ explain? What do you think about that explanation?

27:38 Make a list of the things that happened. Whom do we read about? What do you think about what happened?

27:39 What did ‘people’ do? What do you think about that?

27:40 Of what did ‘the people’ accuse Jesus? Look also at 26:61. What did they say that Jesus should do? What do you think about all that?

27:41 Who did what? What do you think about that?

27:42 Make a list of the things that ‘they said’. What do you think about what they said?

27:43 What else did ‘they’ say? What do you think about all that?

27:44 What do you learn about ‘the criminals’? What do you think about that?

27:45 What happened? How long did that last?

27:46 What did Jesus do at ‘about three o’clock’? What question did he ask? What do you think about all that?

27:47 What happened to ‘some of the people’? What did they think that Jesus had done?

27:48 What did ‘one of them’ do? What might be the reason why he did that? What do you think about that act?

27:49 What did ‘the rest of the people’ do? What do you think about what they did?

27:50 Make a list of the things that Jesus did. What do you think about that?

27:51 What happened ‘at that moment’? Where did that happen? What else happened? What do you think about all that?

27:52 What happened to some graves? Who ‘became alive again’? What do you think about that?

27:53 What did those people do? How do you know that it happened? What do you think about all that?

27:54 Who else saw what happened? What was their reaction? What did they think? What do you think about all that?

27:55 Who were ‘not very far away’? What were they doing? What do you think about that?

27:56 Which women were there? What might be the reason why it was those particular women?

27:57 What happened ‘in the evening’? What do you learn about Joseph? What do you think about that?

27:58 What did Joseph do? What did Pilate do? What do you think about that?

27:59 What happened? What do you think about that?

27:60 Make a list of the things that Joseph did. What had he done ‘already’? What do you think about all that?

27:61 What was happening? Whom were they watching?

27:62 What do you learn about the day? Who did what? What do you think about that?

27:63 Make a list of the statements. What do you think about what ‘they’ said?

27:64 What was the request? Make a list of the bad results that might happen. Which did they say would be the worst lie? What do you think about all that?

27:65 What instructions did Pilate give to those leaders? What do you think about that?

27:66 Make a list of the things that ‘they’ did. How safe do you think that it might have been?