Easter Story Questions
Directions: In your Bible read the following stories and use them to help you
answer the questions. Answer all questions on loose leaf paper to be
collected. Answers must be in complete sentences or you will rewrite those
answers.
These are the stories:
The Conspiracy Against Jesus (Matthew 26:1)
The Betrayal by Judas (Matthew 26:14)
Preparations for the Passover (Matthew 26:17)
The Betrayer (Matthew 26:20)
The Lord’s Supper (Matthew 26:26)
The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet (John Chapter 13:1-20)
Peter’s Denial Foretold (Matthew 26: 31-35)
The Agony in the Garden (Matthew 26:36-46)
The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus (Matthew 26:47-56)
1. In the Plot Against Jesus, why do Jewish high priests and Pharisees
want to kill Jesus and really hate him so much?
2. In the Betrayal by Judas, what does Judas ask the Pharisees in return
for betraying Jesus?
3. In the Betrayer, at the meal, what does Jesus predict will happen?
4. How do the disciples react after Jesus makes his prediction?
5. In the Lord’s Supper, what does Jesus do at the Last Supper that sets
an important example for all Catholics to follow?
6. Read the Washing of the Disciples’ Feet in John’s Gospel, which is
John’s version of the Last Supper, how is John’s version different than
Matthew’s?
7. Why doesn’t Peter want Jesus to wash his feet at first?
8. What do you think Jesus is trying to teach the Apostles by washing
their feet? What does washing their feet symbolize?
9. In Peter’s Denial Foretold, how does Peter react to Jesus’ prediction?
10.In Jesus Prays at Gethsemane, why does Jesus want to go into the
garden with his disciples?
11.While in the garden, how do the disciples keep disappointing Jesus?
How many times?
12.Read verse 39 of the story, what does Jesus ask his Father to do?
What does this show about how Jesus is feeling right now?
13.Read verse 42 of the story, how does Jesus’ attitude change that you
can really tell by his prayer to God?
14.During his arrest, one of Jesus’ disciples (Peter) tries to defend him
and cuts off the ear of one of the soldiers. Jesus tells him that those
who live by the sword die by the sword. What is the message that he
is trying to give Peter?
15. Why does Jesus find it strange that the crowd has come out armed to
arrest him?
Easter Stories Continued
Read the following stories:
Jesus Before the Sanhedrin (Matthew 26:57-68)
Peter Denies Jesus (Matthew 26:69-75)
Jesus is Taken to Pilate and the Death of Judas (Matthew 27:1-10)
Pilate Questions Jesus and Jesus is Sentenced to Death (Matthew 27:11-26)
Jesus is Crucified (Luke 23:46-43)
1. In Jesus Before the Council, at first what goes wrong with the plan
that the High Priests and Pharisees have to get Jesus killed?
2. Finally, what is the crime that the Jewish leaders are going to get
Jesus convicted of?
3. In Peter Denies Jesus, why do you think Peter denies Jesus three
times?
4. In the Death of Judas, how does Judas react when he finds out that
Jesus is going to be killed?
5. Why don’t the chief priests and Pharisees decide to keep Judas’
money? What do they use it for?
6. In Jesus is Sentenced to Death, why do you think that Pilate tries to
get Jesus to be set free?
7. Why does Pilate finally decide to give in to the crowd and have Jesus
killed?
8. In Jesus is Crucified, what were the soldiers and people saying to
insult Jesus as he was being killed?
9. When Jesus is killed, there are two criminals being crucified with him.
What is the attitude that each criminal has towards Jesus?
10.What message about forgiveness can we learn from Jesus’ response to
one of the men in verse 43?
Resurrection Story Questions
Read the following stories from Luke’s Gospel now about Jesus’ death
and Resurrection. Then answer the questions in complete sentences on
loose leaf paper, to be collected.
The Death of Jesus (Luke 23:44-49)
The Burial of Jesus (Luke 23: 50-56)
The Resurrection (Luke 24:1-12)
The Walk To Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35)
Jesus Appears to His Disciples (Luke 24:36-49)
1. In the Death of Jesus, what things happen right when Jesus dies?
2. In the Burial of Jesus, who was Joseph of Arimathea?
3. What does Joseph of Arimathea do with Jesus’ body?
4. In the Resurrection, who were the first people to see Jesus after his
Resurrection, and how did they react?
5. Why don’t you think that the Apostles believed that Jesus rose
from the dead when they first hear about it?
6. In the Walk to Emmaus, why do you think Jesus decides not to tell
the two disciples that it is really him?
7. How do the two disciples finally figure it out that the stranger they
met on the road really is Jesus?
8. In Jesus Appears to His Disciples, how do the Apostles react when
finally Jesus appears to them?
9. What does Jesus help the Apostles to understand about what had to
happen to him?
10. Why do you think that Jesus decides to ascend back into heaven
and not stay around on earth for a longer period of time?