youth ministry - easter charades

Youth Ministry - Easter Charades

Play a game of charades using key

Easter events.

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ActivityChoose several events from the Easter story to be acted out by participants. Using these scenes, play a game of charades.





VariationHave participants re-enact the scenes in friezes–or stop-action scenes. Have the participants set up the scenes in the order that they happened. Take pictures of each pose.





List of events and scripture references• Jesus and the twelve disciples

come into Jerusalem from Bethany, to partake of the Passover meal. (Mark 14.12-16)

• Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:43-52)

• Jesus’ brought before Annas (John 18:12-14)

• Jesus before the Jewish Leaders (Mark 14:53-65)





• Jesus before Sanhedrin (Mark 15:1a)

• Jesus before Pilate (Mark 15: 1b-5)• Jesus before Herod (Luke 23:6-12)• Pilate releases a prisoner (Mark

15:6-15)• Jesus survived painful beating,

whipping, and mocking (Mark 15:16-20)

• Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified (Mark 15:6-15)





• Jesus was mocked by the soldiers as they dressed Him in a purple robe and a crown of thorns (John 19:1-3)

• Jesus was crucified on Golgatha, which means the Place of the Skull (Mark 15:22)

• The sky turned dark for three hours (Mark 15:33)





• Jesus cried, “Father! Into your hands I commit my spirit!” and He died (Luke 23:46)

• Pilate’s sealing and guarding the tomb (Mt.27:62-66)

• Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Salome, Joanna and other women start for the tomb (Mt.28:1, Lk.23:55-24:1)





• The earthquake, the stone rolled away by the angel, the open tomb, and the terror of the Roman guards (Mt.28:2-4)

• The report of the guards to the chief priests (Mt.28:5-6)

• The chief priests’ bribe to the Roman guards (Mt.28:12-13)





• The Roman guards spread the lie that Christ’s body was stolen (Mt.28:15)

• The women see the open tomb, and the message of the angels (Mt.28:2-7, Lk.24:2-8, M.16:3-8, Jn.20:1-2)

• The recovery of the grave clothes by Peter and John (Jn.20:3-8)





• Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene (Jn.20:11-18, Mk.16:9)

• Jesus Appears to women returning from the tomb (Mt.28:8-10)

• Jesus Appears to Peter later in the day (Lk.24:34, 1Cor.15:5)





• Jesus Appears to the Two Emmaus disciples (Lk.24:13-33)

• Jesus Appears to the 10 Apostles in Jerusalem, on Easter Sunday, with Thomas absent (Lk.24:36-43, Jn.20:19-24)

• Jesus Appears to the 11 Apostles in Jerusalem, one week later, with Thomas present (Jn.20:26-29)





• Jesus Appears to seven Apostles, by the Lake of Tiberias, in Galilee (Jn.21:1-23)

• Jesus Appears to 500 brothers and sisters on a Galilean mountain (1Cor.15:6)

• Jesus Appears to Jesus Appears to James (1Cor.15:7)

• Jesus Appears to the Eleven in Galilee (Mt.28:16-20, Mk.16:14-20, Lk.24:33-53, Act.1:3-12)

• The Ascension (Act.1:3-12)





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