Journey: Lesson 26 - In Jerusalem

By Marcel Gervais

This is lesson twenty six of the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson we come to Luke’s presentation of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Chapter one presents the death and resurrection in the light of Jesus role as prophet. In chapter two Luke continues his presentation of the death and resurrection in the light of the Passover and the New Covenant. In chapter three Luke reveals to us the supreme mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus through three experiences on the part of the disciples; the discovery of the empty tomb, the appearance of Jesus to two disciples on the road to Emmaus and the appearance of Jesus to the community in Jerusalem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marcel Gervais
• Release date: Feb 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781927766293

Marcel Gervais

About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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Journey- Lesson 26 In Jerusalem

by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

London, March 31, 1980

This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5P5, Canada ON Smashwords

Cover: When he was with them at table he took the bread and said the blessing, then broke it and gave it to them.. Luke 24:30

COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs In the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction in whole or in part is Prohibited.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 The Prophet (Luke 19:28 •21:38)

Chapter 2 The Death of Jesus (Luke 22:1 - 23:56)

Chapter 3 The Resurrection of Jesus (Luke 24)

Answer key to practice questions

Self-test

Answer key to self-test

Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Twenty Six

About The Author

Psalm 86

This prayer is a lament, but one full of hope in God’s love. It should be read as the prayer of Jesus as he approaches his passion and death. It expresses his conviction that even in his agony he is loved by his Father (vss 12-13) and will not be abandon end by him.

Lesson Objective To describe the meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel according to Luke 19:28-24:53.

With this lesson we come to the event towards which the entire Gospel has been directed - the death and resurrection of Jesus. To make your study of these chapters more enriching it might be helpful for you to recognize one feature of Luke's presentation of the meaning of the cross and exaltation of Jesus. Luke views the death and resurrection as one movement, a movement from death to life. For our evangelist salvation is accomplished by one event which begins on the cross and ends with the ascension of the risen Lord. Luke therefore will not give a meaning to the death of Jesus which can in any way be separated from the resurrection, and the meaning which he gives to the resurrection is inseparable from the cross. That is why he can refer to the death and resurrection by a single word -the exodus or the raising up (9:31, 51) of Jesus. That is also why he will remind us of the resurrection when he writes of the death, and why he will keep the death of Jesus in view when he narrates the appearances of the risen Lord: Jesus crucified announces his entry into paradise (23:43); the risen Lord shows the wounds on his hands and feet (24:39). Luke of course knows that Jesus died on one day and was seen to have been raised from the dead three days later, yet he writes in such a way that the two are held together. This is the reason for the wording of the objective for this lesson: to describe the meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The first part of this lesson will consider the ministry in Jerusalem (19:28 • 21:38). We will approach this section in the light of Jesus as prophet. The second section is concerned with the Last Supper and the crucifixion (22:1 - 23:56). Here we will focus on the death-resurrection as the new exodus and new covenant. The third part (24:1-53) deals with the resurrection and its principal effects. In all three sections our objective is the same, the meaning of the death and resurrection.

Chapter 1 The Prophet (19:28. 21:38)

Section Objective: To describe the meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus in the light of Jesus' role as prophet.

Note: With few exceptions the passages found in this section are also in Mark. See Lesson 23, pp. 2-12.

The last lesson began with Jesus setting his face towards Jerusalem (9:51); this one begins with Jesus making his final approach to the Holy City. Jerusalem, the place God chose to "give his name a home" (Deut 16:6), was an extraordinarily beautiful city at the time of Jesus. Herod the Great had thoroughly renovated and ex pended the Temple, improved its walls, making it one of the most striking cities of the Near East. It was also