• Unleavened Bread 

• Passover

• Chief Priests

• Judas Iscariot

• Mount of Olives  (elsewhere called Gethsemane)

• temptation

• betray

• Temple guards  (those who came to arrest Jesus)

• Servant of the High Priest

• High Priest  (elsewhere named as Caiaphas)

• Prophesy! (what the guards shouted at Jesus)

• Pilate  (Roman Governor)

• Herod  (Jewish King)

• Barabbas  (rebel for whom the crowds chanted and won his release)

• Simon of Cyrene (man compelled to carry cross)

• Golgotha (place of the skull)

• criminals

• Joseph of Arimathea

• Sabbath

• Spices and Perfume

• Mary Magdalene

• Joanna

• Emmaus

• Cleopas (named disciple who met resurrected Jesus on road)

• Bethany (where Jesus and Cleopas shared bread)

• Kidron Valley  (valley disciples crossed to get to Gethsemane)

• Annas   (Father in law of Caiaphas)

• Caiaphas  (elsewhere named the "high priest")

• Courtyard  (of the High Priest...where Peter denied Jesus)

• What is truth  (what Pilate asked Jesus during trial)

• King of the Jews

• hyssop  (reed used to give Jesus wine on cross)

• Nicodemus  (named as one who helped Joseph of Arimathea wrap and bury Jesus)

• Rabboni!  (what Mary Magdalene called the risen Lord)

Mark 14-16

• Upper room

• Temple courts (where Jesus said to Judas he had been teaching)

• Day of Preparation (the day/Friday afternoon before Sabbath when they crucified Jesus)

• Centurion  (Roman officer at the cross who proclaimed Jesus the Son of God)

This list created by Neil MacQueen for Sunday Software, www.sundaysoftware.com

Matthew 26, 27, 28

• Hosanna

• Bethany (where Jesus found a donkey to ride into Jerusalem)

• Gethsemane

• Sanhedrin  (otherwise called the "Chief Priests" or "council" in other Gospels)

• Field of Blood  (where Judas hung himself)

• Blood money  (what the priest called the coins thrown by Judas)

• Potter's field  (where Judas was buried)

• Praetorium   (Matt 27: 27, where Jesus was beaten by soldiers)

• Casting lots (to divide robe)

• "Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani"  ("my God, my God, why have you forsaken me" Ps 22)

• Elijah  (what the crowd said when they heard Jesus quoting Ps 22)

Note: Several of these words appear in more than one Gospel, and thus, are only listed once here.

Link to Crossword and Wordsearch CDs
Kids or teachers make their own puzzles to print or play onscreen.

Link to Fall of Jericho quiz making game
Create multiple choice question sets and race to Jericho!

Link to Sunday Software's Holy Week Lesson Ideas Page

This list created by Neil MacQueen for Sunday Software, www.sundaysoftware.com