As Passover approaches, Satan enters Judas Iscariot who arranges betrayal for money, while Jesus sends Peter and John to prepare the upper room where He institutes the Lord's Supper, identifying bread as His body given for them and the cup as the new covenant in His blood. After predicting betrayal and teaching that greatness comes through service, Jesus promises thrones judging Israel's tribes, warns Peter of Satan's sifting and his coming denial, instructs about swords, and agonizes in Gethsemane with sweat like drops of blood while an angel strengthens Him. Judas' kiss-betrayal leads to Jesus' arrest after He heals the servant's severed ear, Peter denies Him three times before the rooster crows, guards mock and beat Him, and the Sanhedrin trial elicits His affirmation of divine sonship.
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The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of Jerusalem with profound significance in Jesus' life. He often went there to pray, delivered the Olivet Discourse about end times, and spent his last night in the Garden of Gethsemane at its base. Jesus ascended to heaven from this mountain, and Zechariah prophesied that the Messiah would return there.
The Temple in Jerusalem was the permanent house of worship built by Solomon on Mount Moriah. Destroyed by Babylon, it was rebuilt by Zerubbabel and later greatly expanded by Herod. Jesus taught in the Temple courts, cleared it of merchants, and predicted its destruction, which occurred in 70 AD.
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Entry, trial, crucifixion, resurrection, Emmaus, ascension.
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Luke Wrote for Gentiles
Luke is the only Gentile author in the New Testament. A physician by profession, he wrote his Gospel and Acts specifically for a Gentile audience, tracing Jesus' genealogy all the way back to Adam, father of all humanity.
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