Holy Week in the four Gospels
This view follows Holy Week through fifty moments, from the anointing at Bethany to the evening of the first Easter Sunday. For each moment you can read what Matthew, Mark, Luke and John say, side by side and always in that order. In the list of the week, a filled square shows that a Gospel tells that moment.
Where the Gospels differ on a detail, we mark their words. Below the texts we set out each difference, with the main ways Christians have explained it and where each explanation comes from.
Where the words come from
Every word of Scripture here comes from the Berean Standard Bible, which its translators have placed in the public domain (bereanbible.com). The words of time under each day, such as “six days before the Passover”, are the Gospels’ own. The Berean Standard Bible prints the sign on the cross in capital letters, and we set it in italics.
What we decided
We decided which passages tell the same moment, what order the moments come in, and which day each one falls on. The Gospels name only a few weekdays, and the days we give are the ones most harmonies of the Gospels give. Christians have long disagreed about some of them, above all the day of the Last Supper. We also wrote the short summary of each explanation, and each summary names its source.
Mark’s ending
The two oldest complete manuscripts of Mark end at 16:8, with the women running from the tomb, while most later manuscripts go on to 16:20. Wherever a passage from those later verses appears, it carries a note.
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