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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.
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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. Calif,
peting in a 1,187 mile race, Both teams left Saturday,
met here Wednesday and had The PLU team hopes to go
i lunch together before pushing ; through Sacramento, Calif.,
on toward their destinations today in its efforts to get to
at opposite ends of the Pacific Thousand Oaks before the
CoasI California team gets to Ta-
The teams, composed of coma,
three students each, are from j The California team stayed
Pacific Lutheran University overnight at Medford WedrKS
in Tacoma, Wash., and Cali-i day night.
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