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The Passion of the Christ (Messiah)

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On Holy Thursday before Jesus died, from about 6 pm to 8 pm, the Last ______ took place.
From 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Good Friday, Jesus suffers and dies on the cross, at which time the veil in the temple is r______ (or torn) in two.
From about 9 pm to 11 pm on Holy Thursday, Jesus delivers to the Apostles His Last D_______ (synonymous with "speech" or "talk").
From 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Good Friday, Jesus's body is taken down from the cross, carried to a nearby garden, anointed, and placed in a sepulchre (or tomb) owned by J_______ of Arimathea.
The trials of Jesus before Annas and Caiaphas are called e______ trials because they took place before church authorities - the high priests and the Sanhedrin (the Jewish Supreme Court) .
Another name for the upper room where the Last Supper and Last Discourse took place is the ____________ (or "dinner room", from Latin, "cena"; dinner).
In an attempt to save Jesus, Pilate offered the mob to release either Jesus or B______ who was a thief and a murderer.
On His was to Calvary, Jesus is assisted by a man named S_________ of Cyrene.
The trials of Jesus before Pilate and Herod are called c_____ trials because they took place before the governmental (Roman) authorities.
Pilate ultimately caves in to the Jews when they threaten to go over Pilate's head to C_______ (the Emperor).
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From 9 am to about 10:30 am, after having been mercilessly scourged (whipped), Jesus suffers a second mockery, this time from the Roman soldiers, who make a crown of _______ and place it on His head.
From 7 am to 8 am on Good Friday Morning, Jesus appears before H_______ who hopes to see Jesus perform a miracle, but who is disappointed when Jesus does not.
From 8 am to 9 am on Good Friday Morning, Jesus is brought back from Herod to Pilate, who, knowing that Jesus is innocent but being too much of a coward, washes his h______ of the matter and orders Jesus's crucifixion.
From 11 pm Holy Thursday night until 1 am Good Friday morning, Jesus suffers the Agony (where he sweats blood) in the Garden of __________.
In this context, the word "passion" (from the Latin, "pati", to suffer) does not mean a strong emotion or an intense desire/enthusiasm, but rather the ________ and death of Jesus Christ.
Because before a civil court, the Jews could not accuse Jesus of a religious crime (blasphemy), so they resorted to the false civil charges of tax evasion (refusing to give tribute to Caesar) and s_________ (encouraging the people to rebel against the government and setting Himself up as King of the Jews).
From 6 am to 7 am on Good Friday Morning, having given Jesus the death penalty of stoning to death (or lapidation, from Latin, "lapis"; stone) for blasphemy (claiming to be the Son of God), but unable to legally carry it out, the Jews bring Jesus before the Roman Procurator Pontius P______ seeking the Roman death penalty of crucifixion.
From about 2 am Good Friday Morning until about 4 am, Jesus appears before the High Priest for that year whose name is C _________ and whose father-in-law is Annas.
From about 1 am Good Friday Morning to about 2 am Jesus is arrested and brought before A________ whose son-in-law is Caiaphas - the High Priest that year.
From about 10:30 am to 12:00 pm on Good Friday, Jesus carries His cross to the place where those who committed capital crimes were executed by the Romans. The name of this place was C________ (in Hebrew, Golgotha; "place of the skull").
From 4 am on Good Friday Morning to 6 am, Jesus is m_________ by the high priest's servants. This included being spat on, blasphemed, and beaten.
Holy Thursday is also called Maundy Thursday, because after the Mass for that day is reenacted Jesus's exemplification of the new commandment (Latin, "mandatum novum") He had previously given the Apostles to love one another (John. 13: 34) by washing their _________.