# The Passover Events - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 20 Mar 2024, 14 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 175. Jesus told His disciples about His impending crucifixion during Passover. Judas Iscariot, swayed by Satan, agreed to betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. During the Passover meal, Jesus washed His disciples' feet as a lesson in humility and service, predicting His betrayal by Judas. He then instituted the Lord's Supper, sharing bread and wine as symbols of His body and blood, signifying a new covenant for the forgiveness of sins. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Dear God, there is no greater love than your love.
[0:03] Speaker 1: Thank you for showing us the perfect plan through this
[0:06] Speaker 1: Passover meal. Help us to understand all you did during
[0:08] Speaker 1: this time with your friends, and what it means for us.
[0:32] Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you for making us clean
[0:35] Speaker 1: and taking the punishment of our sin on yourself. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:17] Speaker 3: The Passover Events In our last story, as Jesus was
[1:22] Speaker 3: making his way to Jerusalem... He made a fig tree wither,
[1:25] Speaker 3: flipped over the tables of money changers in the temple,
[1:28] Speaker 3: and told a parable about a landowner whose son was killed.
[1:32] Speaker 3: In this story, we will learn how Jesus is preparing
[1:35] Speaker 3: the disciples for his death through a Passover meal, and
[1:39] Speaker 3: how Jesus identifies the one who will betray him, as
[1:43] Speaker 3: inspired by the Gospels.
[1:48] Speaker 1: This is Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress Sadler.
[1:52] Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Kids Bible in Ear podcast. Thank
[1:55] Speaker 1: you so much for joining me. Jesus is sharing one
[1:59] Speaker 1: final meal with his closest friends today. There's a sadness
[2:03] Speaker 1: to it, but also a peace. Everything is in motion
[2:07] Speaker 1: to fulfill God's great plan. Jesus is showing us all
[2:12] Speaker 1: why he came. Here it is.
[2:17] Speaker 3: Jesus said to his disciples that the Passover is in
[2:21] Speaker 3: two days, and that is when the Son of Man
[2:24] Speaker 3: will be crucified. So, as the day of Passover was
[2:28] Speaker 3: coming closer, and the high priests and teachers of the
[2:32] Speaker 3: law were trying to remove Jesus because people were beginning
[2:36] Speaker 3: to believe his teachings, Satan had already deceived one of
[2:40] Speaker 3: the disciples named Judas Iscariot. Judas discussed with the government
[2:46] Speaker 3: leaders on how to get rid of Jesus. They gave
[2:50] Speaker 3: Judas money, 30 pieces of silver, for him to betray Jesus.
[2:56] Speaker 3: And Judas watched and waited for an opportunity to come up.
[3:01] Speaker 3: The day where the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed
[3:04] Speaker 3: had come, and Jesus told Peter and John to get
[3:07] Speaker 3: things ready for Passover. They wanted to know where they
[3:11] Speaker 3: should get ready for the feast. Jesus answered, There will
[3:15] Speaker 3: be a man with a jug of water in which
[3:17] Speaker 3: you will follow him into a house. Then tell the
[3:21] Speaker 3: homeowner that your teacher wants to know where their extra
[3:24] Speaker 3: room is so we can eat the Passover dinner with
[3:27] Speaker 3: all of the disciples. Then they will show you the
[3:31] Speaker 3: upper room so you can get ready there. When they
[3:35] Speaker 3: went to the city, everything happened as Jesus.
[3:38] Speaker 4: Had said, and they prepared things.
[3:41] Speaker 3: Jesus was aware that God was with him, and that
[3:44] Speaker 3: he was returning to his father soon. Jesus took off
[3:48] Speaker 3: his robe, wrapped a towel around him, and began to
[3:51] Speaker 3: wash his disciples' feet. He dried their feet when Peter
[3:55] Speaker 3: said to him, Why do you wash our feet? He responded,
[4:01] Speaker 3: Though you do not understand at the moment, you will
[4:05] Speaker 3: understand soon. At this time, Peter refused to let Jesus
[4:10] Speaker 3: wash his feet. And Jesus told him that if he
[4:13] Speaker 3: did not allow him to wash his feet, then he
[4:16] Speaker 3: would not have a part in him. After Jesus said that,
[4:21] Speaker 3: Peter wanted him to wash his hands, feet, and head.
[4:25] Speaker 3: But Jesus told him that those who have taken a
[4:27] Speaker 3: bath are already clean and just needed their feet to
[4:31] Speaker 3: be cleaned once again. Though you are clean, does not mean.
[4:36] Speaker 4: Everyone who is present here is clean.
[4:39] Speaker 3: He said this in reference to Judas, who was in
[4:42] Speaker 3: the room, because he knew that he was the one
[4:46] Speaker 3: who was going to betray him. After getting done with
[4:50] Speaker 3: this cleansing, he asked his disciples if they understood what
[4:54] Speaker 3: he had done for them. He said, You call me
[4:57] Speaker 3: teacher and Lord because I am these things to you.
[5:02] Speaker 3: Since I am your teacher and I have showed you
[5:05] Speaker 3: how to wash your feet, You now know what to
[5:08] Speaker 3: do for each other in washing their feet. I have
[5:11] Speaker 3: set an example for you to do this as well.
[5:15] Speaker 3: No one is greater than the one they serve, and
[5:17] Speaker 3: the messenger cannot be greater than the person who sent them.
[5:22] Speaker 3: Now that you know this, be blessed when you do
[5:26] Speaker 3: these things. While they were still eating, he expressed that
[5:30] Speaker 3: it will be one of the disciples that will turn
[5:33] Speaker 3: against him. They then became unhappy and questioned themselves, saying,
[5:38] Speaker 3: Will it be me, Lord? Jesus explained that the person
[5:42] Speaker 3: who will betray him will be the one to dip
[5:45] Speaker 3: his hands in the bowl. He said, It is written
[5:49] Speaker 3: that I will have to go, but the person who
[5:52] Speaker 3: turns their back on myself should be cautious. They will
[5:56] Speaker 3: have wished that they were not even born. The one
[6:00] Speaker 3: who will go against Jesus, which is Judas Iscariot, asked,
[6:06] Speaker 3: Is it me, Lord? The Lord simply answered, You said it.
[6:13] Speaker 3: The Lord explained that the one who will dip their
[6:16] Speaker 3: bread into the dish will be the one who will
[6:18] Speaker 3: betray him. Then he gave it to Judas, and Jesus
[6:23] Speaker 3: said to him, Do whatever you are going to do, fast.
[6:29] Speaker 3: The others at the table did not understand what Jesus
[6:32] Speaker 3: meant when he said these things to him. They thought
[6:35] Speaker 3: that he was telling Judas to use the money that
[6:37] Speaker 3: he had because he was in charge of it to
[6:40] Speaker 3: buy things to prepare for the festival or to give
[6:43] Speaker 3: money to the poor. Judas took the bread from Jesus
[6:48] Speaker 3: and went out that night. Later in the meal, Jesus
[6:52] Speaker 3: took a piece of bread, And after he gave thanks
[6:55] Speaker 3: for it, he then broke it into pieces and gave
[6:58] Speaker 3: it to his disciples. He said, Take this bread as
[7:03] Speaker 3: my body and eat. Then he took a cup of wine,
[7:07] Speaker 3: gave thanks for it, and gave it to his disciples
[7:10] Speaker 3: to drink. He said, Drink this wine, for this is
[7:15] Speaker 3: my blood, which is shed to forgive the world of
[7:19] Speaker 3: their sins. I will no longer drink anything from this fruit. Wow.
[7:24] Speaker 3: Before we dive in, let's stop and ask God to
[7:26] Speaker 3: help us understand today's story. Lord, please open our eyes.
[7:30] Speaker 4: And hearts to understand what you show us.
[7:38] Speaker 3: In this Passover meal.
[7:52] Speaker 1: Thank you for your amazing, perfect plan of salvation. Amen.
[7:58] Speaker 1: All right, as we open, Jesus and his friends are
[8:01] Speaker 1: preparing to eat a Passover meal together. They still didn't
[8:06] Speaker 1: understand what was happening, but they definitely knew this was
[8:10] Speaker 1: no ordinary meal. Meanwhile, Judas was plotting with the Jewish
[8:15] Speaker 1: leaders and agreed to show them where Jesus was for
[8:18] Speaker 1: 30 pieces of silver. He was going to hand him
[8:22] Speaker 1: over to the ones who wanted him dead, all for
[8:25] Speaker 1: 30 lousy pieces of silver. This meal was a special
[8:31] Speaker 1: part of Passover, the time when the Israelites remembered how
[8:35] Speaker 1: God delivered them from slavery in Egypt. You can find
[8:39] Speaker 1: that true story in your Bible, way back towards the
[8:42] Speaker 1: beginning in the book of Exodus. All the food and
[8:45] Speaker 1: drink in the meal had special meaning to celebrate all
[8:48] Speaker 1: God had done to rescue his people. By this time
[8:53] Speaker 1: with Jesus, there was a new meaning. Jesus wrapped a
[8:57] Speaker 1: towel around his waist and began washing their feet. He
[9:01] Speaker 1: did this to set an example for them and us
[9:04] Speaker 1: of what he wanted them to do once he left earth.
[9:07] Speaker 1: He said, just as I have done to you, you
[9:11] Speaker 1: do to others. Again, we see that to love others
[9:15] Speaker 1: means to serve. Then Jesus took the bread and broke it.
[9:20] Speaker 1: He gave it to his friends saying, this is my body.
[9:23] Speaker 1: You see, Jesus was about to suffer a lot and
[9:26] Speaker 1: the soldiers were going to hurt his body. They would
[9:30] Speaker 1: soon whip him, drive nails into his hands and feet,
[9:36] Speaker 1: place thorns on his head and much more. He was
[9:40] Speaker 1: offering his body, the bread, to his disciples as a
[9:44] Speaker 1: sign of love for them. He was saying, take this.
[9:49] Speaker 1: I am doing it for you. Because of all the
[9:51] Speaker 1: The very time that Jews in Jerusalem were sacrificing Passover
[9:52] Speaker 1: sin in the world, the only way for Jesus to
[9:54] Speaker 1: lambs to celebrate this holiday, God was allowing his son,
[9:54] Speaker 1: save us and make us right with God again was
[9:56] Speaker 1: the Lamb of God, to be sacrificed. To be sacrificed
[9:57] Speaker 1: to pay the punishment for our So think about this.
[10:18] Speaker 1: on a cross and pay the cost for our sins.
[10:21] Speaker 1: Do you see that connection? It's just incredible. Next, Jesus
[10:27] Speaker 1: took the cup. He told them to drink because the
[10:30] Speaker 1: wine was a symbol of his blood. Jesus was about
[10:34] Speaker 1: to bleed a lot. And the blood that would pour
[10:38] Speaker 1: out from his body was again a sign of his
[10:41] Speaker 1: love for us. It was the way in which he
[10:45] Speaker 1: would save us. In your church, you may have participated
[10:49] Speaker 1: in what we call the Lord's Supper or communion. Together
[10:54] Speaker 1: as God's children, we share this meal and take the
[10:57] Speaker 1: bread and the cup as a sign of Jesus's body
[11:00] Speaker 1: and blood. Each time we do it, we remember the
[11:03] Speaker 1: sacrifice Jesus made for us. In our hearts, we receive
[11:07] Speaker 1: his body and his blood and we say, thank you, Jesus.
[11:11] Speaker 1: There is no love as great as yours. Jesus called
[11:16] Speaker 1: this a new covenant. Things were different now. The old
[11:20] Speaker 1: covenant came from Moses, the Ten Commandments, and the laws
[11:24] Speaker 1: that all the Pharisees tried to keep perfectly. But now,
[11:28] Speaker 1: no longer are we expected to keep God's laws and
[11:32] Speaker 1: make ourselves good enough to get to Him. All we
[11:36] Speaker 1: have to do is take what Jesus is giving to us,
[11:40] Speaker 1: His body and His blood, All we.
[11:42] Speaker 3: Have to do is accept.
[11:44] Speaker 1: His sacrifice for our sins on the cross. Now, we
[11:49] Speaker 1: still try to keep the laws, but we do that
[11:52] Speaker 1: to show our love for him, not to earn our
[11:55] Speaker 1: way to heaven. Because Jesus has already earned that. We
[11:59] Speaker 1: are forgiven and free. It sounds too good to be true, right?
[12:05] Speaker 1: Believe me when I say it's not. By now, you
[12:09] Speaker 1: know that the Bible is the best story ever told
[12:12] Speaker 1: It's God's story to you. And it's all true. Mark
[12:17] Speaker 1: tells us that as they finished the meal, they went
[12:20] Speaker 1: out and sang a hymn. Do you have a favorite
[12:23] Speaker 1: worship song? Now would be a great time to sing it.
[12:27] Speaker 1: And be sure to come back next time when we
[12:29] Speaker 1: find Jesus sweating drops of blood, praying in the garden,
[12:33] Speaker 1: and betrayed with a kiss. Can't wait for the next episode?
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