Holy Week Timeline - Google Drive


1	Jewish	Roman	Time	Scripture	Event	Verse	Notes

2	1st watch	Thursday	6:00 PM
3			7:00 PM	Matt 26:20	Passover meal begins at dusk	"Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve."
4			8:00 PM	John 13:1-16	Jesus washes the feet of the disciples		Only John records the washing of the feet
5	2nd watch		9:00 PM	Matt 26:26-29	Christ institutes the sacrament
6			10:00 PM	Matt 26:30	Jesus and disciples depart from upper room for the Mount of Olives
7			10:30 PM	John 15:1-17:26	Jesus speaks of the True Vine and offers the intercessory prayer		Only John records these events
8			11:00 PM	Luke 22:40-46	Jesus prays and suffers in the garden
9	3rd watch	Friday	Midnight	Matt 26:42	Jesus prays for a second time and wakes his disciples
10			1:00 AM	Matt 26:43-46	Jesus prays for a third time and returns to disciples
11			2:00 AM	John 18:2-11	Jesus betrayed by Judas and is arrested in the garden by a band of men
12	4th watch		3:00 AM	John 18:19-24	Jesus tried before Annas		Only John records the trial before Annas
13			4:00 AM	Mark 14:55-64	Jesus tried before Caiaphas the high priest
14			5:00 AM		According to tradition, Jesus is held in a pit beneath the high priest's home
15			5:30 AM	Matt 27:1	Chief priests and elders take council against Jesus to put him to death	"When the morning was come, all the chief priests..."
16			6:00 AM	Luke 22:60-61	Rooster crows, Peter denies Jesus as Jesus from high priest's home	"And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew."
17			6:30 AM	John 18:28-38	Jesus tried before Pontius Pilate the first time
18			7:00 AM	Luke 23:7	Pilate sends Jesus to be tried by Herod Antipas		Only Luke records that Jesus was taken to Herod
19			7:30 AM	Luke 23:11	Herod's men mock Jesus, array him in a robe and return him to Pilate		Only recorded in Luke
20			8:00 AM	Matt 27:15-30	Jesus tried before Pilate again; Barabbas is released; Jesus is scourged
21	3rd hour		9:00 AM	Mark 15:25	Jesus is crucified at the 3rd hour	"And it was the third hour, and they crucified him."	Matthew and Luke omit the 3rd hour, only Mark uses precise timing
22			10:00 AM	Matt 27:35-43	Jesus is mocked by the people, the Jewish leaders, and the Roman soldiers
23			11:00 AM	Luke 23:39-43	Jesus speaks to the two thieves
24	6th hour		Noon	John 19:14-16	According to John, Jesus is crucified at the 6th hour	"and about the sixth hour" Pilate delivered him to be crucified.
25				Luke 23:44	Darkness covers the land for three hours	"And it was about the sixth hour ... until the ninth hour."	Luke adds that it was "about" the sixth hour
26				John 19:25-27	Jesus turns the care of his mother to John		Only John records this
27			1:00 PM
28			2:00 PM
29	9th hour		3:00 PM	Matt 27:46-50	Jesus cries out to the Father and dies on the cross at the 9th hour	"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice..."	Matthew adds it was "about" the ninth hour, Luke omits the hour
30					Passover lambs are slain at the temple at about 3:00 PM		This is according to Josephus
31				Matt 27:51	Veil of the temple is rent and the earth shakes
32			3:15 PM	John 19:31	Soldier pierces his side		Only John records this
33			4:00 PM	John 19:38-42	Jesus' body is removed from the cross and prepared for burial
34			5:00 PM
35	1st watch		6:00 PM
36			7:00 PM		Sabbath day begins at dusk
37			8:00 PM