Easter Story
TRIUMPH IN JERUSALEM "Entry into Jerusalem," by Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280-1348). The original work is a fresco painted on the wall of the southern transept of the lower church at the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy. It is part of the "Assisi Frescoes."
Because He knew the religious leaders were plotting against Him, Jesus stayed out of the limelight for a time. Five days before the Passover (or, Pesach), He decided to go to Jerusalem from Bethany, where once again he had visited his friends. When a great crowd of people, gathering in Jerusalem for the Passover, heard that Jesus was coming into the city, they ran out to greet him. Sitting on a young donkey, Jesus rode into the city with the crowd waving palm branches and shouting:
Perturbed at this turn of events, the religious leaders became even more concerned.
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion