The Passion History of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Description

This Passion History weaves together the Wartburg Project translations of the four Gospel accounts of St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John. It is patterned after a Lutheran arrangement that was printed in both the Lutheran Lectionary of the former Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America, and The Sufferings and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ by John C. Lawrenz (Northwestern Publishing House, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, © 1988). The precise chronological placement of all accounts is not certain because the inspired Evangelists did not always place everything in strict chronological order. Use of the lectionaries is free.

This passion history is offered in a variety of options which divide the history into five or seven lessons. One arrangement is a synoptic version which presents the material from all four Gospels every year. There also is a three-year lectionary which focuses on one of the Synoptic Gospels in a three-year cycle. The following gives a sample of some of the possible arrangements:

A congregation may read the first lesson on Ash Wednesday and continue in order as

demonstrated in this chart.

A congregation may use appointed Scripture lessons for Ash Wednesday and then read Passion History readings beginning with the next midweek Lenten service. This chart offers one option for doing this.

Churches that have two services on Good Friday may use Lesson #6 in the first service and Lesson #7 in the second. Another option would be to read Lesson # 6 on Maundy Thursday and Lesson #7 on Good Friday. Some congregations might want to keep Maundy Thursday open as a commemoration of the Lord’s Supper each year.

Another option is to use a Three Year Series of lessons based on the three Synoptic Gospels.