Lisa Joy sent this to me last week & we are doing this for our family home activity tonight. I thought some of you might enjoy it as well!
The 12 Days of Easter
1. Matt 26:39 “O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
Read 1 Nephi 10:4
(cup)
2. Matt 26:14-15 “Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”
Read Jacob 1:6
(3 dimes)
3. Matt 27:1-2 “When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. And when they had bound him they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.”
Read Alma 5:48
(twine)
4.Matt 27:24-26 “When Pilate saw that he could not prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person…and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.”
Read Hel 5:9-12
(piece of soap)
5. Matt 27:28-30 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in this right hand: they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him saying, Hail, King of the Jews! and they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Read Hel 14:14-17
(red cloth)
6. Matt 27:31 And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucifiy him.
Read 2 Nephi 10:3
(nail)
7. Matt 27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they cast lots.
Read Mosiah 3:7
(die)
8. Matt 27:50-51, 54 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake and the rocks rent; Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Read Hel 14:20-23
(rocks)
9. Matt 27:58-59 He (Joseph of Arimathaea) went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus…And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb.
Read 2 Nephi 25:24-26
(white cloth)
10. Matt 27:60 And he laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Read Ether 3:14
(stone)
11. Matt 28:2-5 And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightening, and his raiment white as snow…And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
Read Jacob 4:11
(snowflake cut-out)
12. Matt 28:6 He is not here, for he is risen….
Read 3 Nephi 9:15-18, Mosiah 16:6-10, Alma 28:4-14
(empty egg)
1 comment:
I love this...Rob and I usually celebrate the commercial side of Easter (easter baskets, candy, coloring eggs, etc...) on Saturday so that Sunday can be focused on the Savior. I am totally going to do this...thanks for sharing! Happy St. Patty's Day!
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