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6 B- lUHgton in Arrarica THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON 'Holy Week' Recalls Events Climaxed by Death of Christ By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent Jesus Christ lived among men for about 33 years. But His public ministry lasted only two or three years at most. And the climactic events of His brief career were cram med into a single week. The momentous week oc curred more than 19 hundred years ago. But such was its impact on the hearts and minds of men that it is still being commemorated in all the world as "Holy Week." The 1963 celebration of Holy Week began last Sun day. The first day of Holy Week is called "Palm Sunday." The name , comes from the royal welcome which Jesus receiv ed from the people of Jerusa lem when he arrived in the city for the first time. Fama Precedes Him His fame as a teacher and a healer had preceded Him from the hinterlands of Gal lllee, where most of His min istry was conducted. Many people thought He was com ing to Jerusalem to' lead a revolt against the Roman army of occupation. So they greeted Him at a king. Ip our day we roll out a red car pet for visiting royalty. In the first century n.u., me custom was to pave His path way with palm branches. Jesus was not elated by His reception. He knew that the fickle crowds would turn against Him when they learn ed that He was not the kind of deliverer they wanted. He had already warned His tils ciples that He was going to Jerusalem, not to be honored but to be executed. The disciples found that prophecy hard to believe. But they were to witness many strange things before the week was out. Speaks In Tempi Jesus spent Monday and Tuesday at Jerusalem's hill top temple, trying to make clear by words and deeds the true nature of the "kingdom of God" which he had come to proclaim. When He talked to plain people, He illustrated His points with homely lit tle stories called parables. When theologians and lawyers tried to trap Him with load ed questions, he quoted their own scriptures and law books to them. Once He got angry at racketeers who had set up carnival like booths In the temple courtyard to bilk tourists. He seized a whip sad drove them out. By Wednesday, Jesus could tec that He was making few converts ana many entitle He left Jerusalem aiid spent the day with some old friends who lived In a little suburb called Bethany. Meanwhile, leaders of organized religion and respectable men of prop erty met secretly in the city and decided that this Galil lean trouble maker must be gotten out of the way. They made a deal with a disgrun tled disciple named Judas Ia cariot to serve as finger man for the arrest. Judas sold out his Master for 30 pieces of silver. Last Suppar On Thursday evening, Jesus celebrated the Jewish feast of the Passover with His dis ciples in the upstairs room of a private home in Jerusa lem. Tlir supper of unleav ened bread and wine was spread on a low wooden table. Jesus heard some of His dis ciples squabbling over which of them was most important. To Icaclr them a lesson in humility. He took a towel and basin of water, and wash ed the grime from their sarv dal-shod feet. It was a task usually performed by slaves In Ihc homes of the rich. Jesus told them that in the king dom Of God. the only great men were those who served others. The word tlial Jesus spoke when He distributed the bread and wine gave that Last Sup per a special significance. lie said the bread represented His body, the wine Ills blood. He told His disciples that tin' body would soon be broken and the blood spilled because He loved them i and because only by suffering on their behalf could He "ransom" them from sin and death. Events Mov Quickly Things moved fast after that. Jesus was arrested, tried in the middle of the nifht, found guilty of blasphemy for acknowledging that He claim ed to be the Son of God. lie was hustled before the local representative of Roman authority, a whishy - washy fellow named Pontius Pilate, Queen for A Day Show Postponed to April I 7 Announcement that a for mer Rogue valley school teacher, Mrs. Dorothy Marler. was to be on the Queen for a Day program had scarcely got into print when Mrs C. C. Herlow called tne Mail Trib une Wednesday to say the pro gran) had been postponed to April 17. Mrs. Marler telephoned her mother of the change from Los Angeles. The program will be on Channel 10 at 3 p.m. April 17, Mrs. Hcriow said. 1 who yielded to the demands of a noisy mob and condemned Jesus to death. Death Is Painful After being tortured for several hours, Jesus was tak en, shortly before noon on Friday, to the top of a hill named Calvary. He was strip ped of His clothing and made to lie down on a crude wooden cross. His arms were stretched out on the crossbeam and wooden nails were hammered through His hands. Other nails were driven through Hi3 feet to attach them to the central post. Then the cross was raised upright and its bot tom end was dropped with a rending jolt into a hole in the ground. He hung there for three hours. Crucifixion is an ex tremely painful form of execu tion, and men undergoing it are rarely able to utter any sounds except screams of agony. Jesus managed to speak seven brief sentences. One of them was; "Father, for give them, for they know not what they do." When He was dead, His body was placed in a tomb j hewn out of rock. It lay there over Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. Early Sunday morn ing a few women mourners went to the tomb to apply embalming ointments to the j body. They returned with news which the frightened and de moralized disciples at first dismissed as "an idle tale." Later, the disciples confirmed it for themselves, through first-hand experience, and set forth to proclaim to all the world the good news that is still reverberating in Easter anthems: "He is risen!" "He is risen indeed." Accused Eichmann Accomplice Held Bern, Switzerland - HOT -An Austrian lawyer accused by former concentration camp Jews of being Adolf Eich mann's accomplice is being held by Swiss police. A police spokesman said Erico Raja, whom the Jews charged was responsible for the death of Anne Frank, was picked up at Melide, near Lu gano, this morning and held for questioning. Bicycle Racers Lunch at Yreka Yreka, Calif. fUPt A pair I fornia Lutheran C o 1 1 e 2 e, of college bicycle teams, com- Thousand Oaks. 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