foiled the religious leaders’ attempts to trap and discredit Him, and then turned the tables on them and humiliated them into silence. But then on Thursday night and Friday came the shock of His arrest, mock trials, crucifixion, death, and burial. It was unimaginable and devastating that the one in whom they and others had placed their hope had been executed by the leaders of Israel. While they were talking and discussing these disastrous events, trying to make sense out of what had turned their