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The Knitted Bible
Scenes depicting Bible events in knitted form.
Knitted by members of the
United Reformed Church
in Hartlepool
No 1 Creation
No 1 Creation
No 2 Adam and Eve
God planted a garden in Eden there he put the man and women he had formed who were called Adam and Eve.
God told them they could eat of any of the fruit of any of the trees in the garden except for the fruit of the “tree of knowledge of good and evil”, because if they ate of that fruit, they would die.
One day a crafty snake persuaded Eve to eat some of the forbidden fruit, and gave some to Adam as well.
Immediately, they knew that they had done something terribly wrong, and they were ashamed of themselves.
God punished Adam and Eve by sending them far away from the garden of Eden, which meant that they could no longer eat the fruit from the “tree of life”, but would have to work hard to grow the food they needed, and would eventually die.
No 2 Adam and Eve
God planted a garden in Eden there he put the man and women he had formed who were called Adam and Eve.
God told them they could eat of any of the fruit of any of the trees in the garden except for the fruit of the “tree of knowledge of good and evil”, because if they ate of that fruit, they would die.
One day a crafty snake persuaded Eve to eat some of the forbidden fruit, and gave some to Adam as well.
Immediately, they knew that they had done something terribly wrong, and they were ashamed of themselves.
God punished Adam and Eve by sending them far away from the garden of Eden, which meant that they could no longer eat the fruit from the “tree of life”, but would have to work hard to grow the food they needed, and would eventually die.
No 3 Noah’s Ark
God saw that there was a great deal of wickedness among the people of the world that he had made to be good, and was sorry that he had created human beings. God decided to wipe them all out - except for Noah, who was a good man, and Noah’s family - and to start again.
God gave Noah instructions for building a big boat, an Ark, into which Noah and his family, and a pair of every living creature had to go, in order to be saved for the new beginning God wanted to make.
Then the heaven opened and rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights, until the whole earth was flooded with water and every living creature drowned.
For about six months the Ark sailed on the water before coming to rest on the mountain of Ararat.
Forty more days passed before Noah sent a raven out of the Ark, and then a dove to see if they could find somewhere dry to perch, but another week went by before the dove returned with an fresh Olive leaf.
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No 3 Noah’s Ark - Continued
When Noah was sure that the floods had gone down, he opened the Ark and the animals, birds, reptiles and all the creatures he had saved went out onto dry land. God blessed Noah and his family and made a solemn promise that he would never wash out everything and everyone from the earth again.
Then God put a rainbow in the sky, saying that whenever people saw a rainbow, they would remember that it was a sign of his promise.
No 4 Abraham and Sarah
God wanted to have a closer relationship with his people, and he chose Abraham to be the founder of a nation that would be especially blessed by God
Abraham was told to pack up everything he owned and to take his wife Sarah and all his family to the land of Canaan.
God promised Abraham that he would have children, and as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, but years and years went by and still Abraham and Sarah had no children.
When God repeated his promise, Abraham found it hard to believe because he and Sarah were growing old - and when three strangers arrived at their camp and one of them said that Sarah would give birth to a son, Sarah laughed.
However, God's promise did come true, and, Abraham and Sarah had a son, whom they called Isaac.
No 5 Jacob’s Ladder
One night when Jacob was travelling he stopped to rest and lay down with his head on a stone for a pillow and went to sleep.
He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
There above it stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord. the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.”
When Jacob awoke he thought "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. "He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven".
No 5 Jacob’s Ladder
One night when Jacob was travelling he stopped to rest and lay down with his head on a stone for a pillow and went to sleep.
He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
There above it stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord. the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.”
When Jacob awoke he thought "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. "He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven".
No 6 Joseph and His Brothers
Jacob had twelve sons, but Joseph was his favourite. When Joseph was seventeen, he had a strange dream and told his older brothers about it.
In the dream several signs pointed to the fact that Joseph would become so important that his brothers would bow to the ground in front of him.
The brothers thought that Joseph was becoming too big headed, and they plotted together to get rid of him. They threw him into a dried-up well and were going to leave him there, but a camel train of traders on their way to Egypt came along and so they sold Joseph to the traders.
When they arrived in Egypt, the traders sold Joseph on to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard.
Years later there was a long drought and people in many countries suffered from famine.
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No 6 Joseph and His Brothers - Continued
Jacob sent Joseph's brothers to Egypt to buy food, because he had heard that someone in Egypt had foreseen what would happen and had built up stores of grain.
The "someone" turned out to be Joseph, who had worked his way up into the highest position in Pharaoh's court, and there his brothers really did bow down on the ground in front of him.
No 7 Moses in the Bulrushes
Abraham's descendants, who had by then become "the People of Israel", settled in Egypt. They grew to number so many that the Pharaoh and advisers were afraid that they would turn against the Egyptians, and they made a plan to deal with the Israelites.
First of all, all the Israelites were put into forced labour, building great cities for Pharaoh, but as the immigrants continued to thrive and to have children, so Pharaoh became more afraid of a revolt. So he ordered the midwives to kill all the Israelite babies at birth, but they pretended that it was impossible. Pharaoh then commanded the Egyptian people to throw every Israelite baby boy into the River Nile.
When Moses was born to an Israelite woman, she was afraid that he would be killed. She hid him at home for three months, and then made a waterproof basket for him and hid it among the reeds on the river bank.
Moses' sister, Miriam, watched to see what would happen to him; when Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river, she found the baby Moses, and felt sorry for him. Continued
No 7 Moses in the Bulrushes - Continued
She decided to adopt him and bring him up as her own son, but first he had to be old enough to leave his real mother.
Miriam fetched Moses' mother and Pharaoh's daughter gave her money to live on until Moses was old enough to go and live in Pharaoh's palace.
No 8 Moses and the Ten Commandments
When Moses was growing up he discovered who he really was, and God told him to free the Israelites from what had become slavery in Egypt. After overcoming many difficulties Moses finally managed to get the Israelites away from Egypt, but they soon got fed up with travelling and became bad-tempered and unmanageable, so God told Moses that he would help him with the task of leading the people onwards.
God told Moses to meet him at the top of a mountain where he would give him stone tablets with the rules for living as God’s people written on them.
Moses’ brother Aaron,who had been left in charge, gathered all the gold jewellery that the people had and made a statue, a golden calf, and told them to worship the statue, as if it was a god.
Moses returned from the mountain while the people were still partying, and he was so angry that he threw the stone tablets he was carrying to the ground, where they broke into pieces.
He then destroyed the golden calf and punished the people who had been running wild, before going back up the mountain to plead with God to give the people another chance.
God gave them another two tablets of stone, and Moses told the people what was written on them, “The Ten Commandments.”
No 9 Samson and Delilah
The Israelites were captured by the Philistines, who suppressed them for forty years.
One of the Israelites, Manoah, was a good man. God promised that he and his wife would have a son, who would be special and would save his people from the Philistines. Manoah’s son was called Samson and God blessed him. When he grew up, Samson fell in with a Philistine woman called Delilah.
The Philistine leaders, who had become afraid of Samson’s enormous strength, bribed Delilah with silver pieces so that she would find out how to overpower Samson before he overpowered them. After several attempts, Delilah discovered that if Samson’s hair was cut off, he would lose his strength completely.
One night, while Samson was asleep, Delilah got a man to shave the hair from Samson’s head. Then the Philistines seized Samson, blinded him, and took him in chains to a prison in their city of Gaza. While he was in prison, Samson’s hair began to grow again.
When the Philistines held a great feast to celebrate their victory over Samson and the Israelites, they sent for Samson so that they could make fun of him. Samson was chained to the pillars of the banqueting hall, which contained three thousand people.
Samson called out to God, asking for one more burst of strength.
He pulled at the pillars and the place collapsed killing everyone.
No 10 Samuel in the Temple
Samuel was also a child promised by God, for his mother Hannah had prayed for a son. Hannah made God a promise that if she had a son, she would bring him up to be set apart for God's service in the temple at Shiloh.
When Samuel was still very young he was taken to live at the Temple and began to help Eli the old priest.
One night, when he and Eli were lying asleep, Samuel heard someone calling his name. He went to Eli, who said that he had not called, so Samuel went back to bed. Again he heard his name being called, but when he went to Eli, who hadn't opened his mouth, Eli knew that God was the one calling Samuel. He told Samuel that if it happened again, he was to say, "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening".
Samuel went and lay down in his place, and when he heard his name called for a third time, he replied as Eli had told him to do. God told Samuel that he was about to do something that would make people sit up and take notice, that would show them that they could not break God's rules without being punished.
God spoke often to Samuel after that night, helping him to make sure that people paid attention to God.
Eventually, in response to the people's demand, it was Samuel who anointed and crowned the first King of Israel, a man called Saul.
No 11 David and Goliath
Israel was at war with the Philistines, who had gathered their armies for battle. One of the Philistines, a giant of a man called Goliath, challenged the Israelites to send out a man to fight against him.
The Israelites were too afraid to fight Goliath, even though they knew that the King would give a big reward to anyone who killed Goliath.
David had been to and from the battlefield regularly, (although he was too young to be in the army) taking food for his older brothers who were soldiers.
When David saw that none of the Israelites would fight Goliath, he volunteered to do it himself.
King Saul gave David his own suit of armour, but David couldn’t walk in it so he took it off. Then he approached Goliath armed only with five smooth stones and his sling (a kind of catapult). Goliath laughed at the sight of David because he was so small and young, but David slung a stone and hit Goliath on his forehead knocking him out.
Then David took Goliath’s sword and cut off his head with it. All the Philistines ran away and David was cheered as a hero.
God blessed David and in later years David became a great King of Israel loved by everyone.
No 12 Elijah
Elijah was a prophet, a man to whom the Lord gave words to speak to his people, and through whom God displayed his power.
At the beginning of Elijah’s ministry God told him to prepare for what was to come by spending some time alone in the wilderness, while he was there ravens brought him bread and meat to eat and he drank water from a stream, until it dried up because there had been no rain.
Then God sent Elijah to the house of a widow, who lived alone with her son. The widow only had a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug left because of the drought, and was preparing to die.
Elijah told her that God said that he would not let the flour or oil run out until the drought was over, she believed him and baked some bread every day for many days yet the flour and oil did not dry up.
Shortly afterwards, the women’s son became ill and stopped breathing. Elijah prayed to God, asking him to save the boy, and he came back to life again.
No 12 Elijah
Elijah was a prophet, a man to whom the Lord gave words to speak to his people, and through whom God displayed his power.
At the beginning of Elijah’s ministry God told him to prepare for what was to come by spending some time alone in the wilderness, while he was there ravens brought him bread and meat to eat and he drank water from a stream, until it dried up because there had been no rain.
Then God sent Elijah to the house of a widow, who lived alone with her son. The widow only had a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug left because of the drought, and was preparing to die.
Elijah told her that God said that he would not let the flour or oil run out until the drought was over, she believed him and baked some bread every day for many days yet the flour and oil did not dry up.
Shortly afterwards, the women’s son became ill and stopped breathing. Elijah prayed to God, asking him to save the boy, and he came back to life again.
No 13a The Fiery Furnace
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jerusalem and took away the temple treasures, as well as some of the royal family and young noblemen. These included four friends, who were given the Babylonian name of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and Belteshazzar. The four friends were given places at the King's court, but although they had to act like Babylonians; they continued to worship God and to keep his commandments. The four were so liked by King Nebuchadnezzar that he promoted them to positions of great responsibility; which did not please some of those at court. When the King made an enormous golden statue and ordered everyone to worship it, enemies of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego told him that they refused to worship the statue. King Nebuchadnezzar flew into a rage and ordered the three to be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, heated up seven times more than usual. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were tied up by the strongest guards in the King's army, but because the furnace was so overheated, the men who were throwing them into the flames died instantly. King Nebuchadnezzar was amazed to see that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had not been killed, but were walking around freely in the fire, accoumpanied by a forth person of god-like appearance. He called to the three men to come out of the furnace and saw that they were completely unharmed. Then he realised the power of God and sent out a decree that nobody should say anything against God.
No 13 Daniel and the Lions Den
Belteshazzar, who is better known to us by his real name of Daniel, had distinguished himself at court, both for his intelligence and his ability to interpret dreams. After King Nebuchadnezzar died and Darius, King of the Medes ruled, things became difficult for Daniel.
Darius made Daniel one of the three presidents who organised the kingdom, and planned to make him the prime minister. But the presidents were jealous and angry because Daniel was Judean; they persuaded King Darius to pass a law saying that all the people must worship the King, anyone who prayed to any other than the king would be thrown into den of lions.
Now Daniel was a man of prayer; it was well known that he prayed to his God three times every day in front of his window, which faced Jerusalem.
As soon as the law had been passed, the other two presidents informed King Darius that Daniel had disobeyed the law.
Because the law of the Medes and Persians could not be changed, the King had to send Daniel into the lions den, even though he didn't want to, because he really liked Daniel.
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No 13 Daniel and the Lions Den - Continued
When Daniel had been thrown into the lions den, King Darius went to his palace and spent a sleepless night worrying and hoping that Daniel's God would be able to save him.
As soon as it was first light, King Darius rushed out to the lions den and was hugely relieved to discover that Daniel was still alive.
Daniel was brought out of the den, and the two presidents who had spoken against Daniel were thrown into the den. Before they reached the bottom, the lions killed them.
Then King Darius wrote to all nations of the world, telling them to worship the God of Daniel, who is the God of power and the God who saves his people.
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No 13 Daniel and the Lions Den - Continued
No 14 Jonah and the Big Fish
God told Jonah to go to Ninevah to tell the city full of wicked people that God was angry with them and would destroy them. But Jonah ran away to sea instead. While he was on a ship, heading far away from Ninevah, God made a massive storm burst out and the sailors thought the ship would break up.
Meanwhile, Jonah was fast asleep in his cabin, but the sailors guessed that he had something to do with the storm, so they asked him who he was, where he had come from, and what could be done to still the storm. Jonah told them to throw him into the sea, but they didn’t want to - until the storm worsened and the sea raged wildly. When they threw Jonah overboard, the storm immediately stopped and they praised God.
But the Lord sent a whale (or a large fish) to swallow up Jonah; he was inside it for three days and three nights. Jonah prayed that God would save him and then God made the whale spit Jonah out onto dry land.
Then Jonah went to Ninevah, as God wanted him to do in the first place, and gave the people God’s message. The people of Ninevah listened and were sorry for their evil deeds. The King of Ninevah ordered everyone to turn over a new leaf so that God would save them.
Jonah was not pleased when God changed his mind about destroying the city and the people of Ninevah, but God helped him to see that he had done the right thing. God always wants to help and save people.
No 15 The Angel Gabriel visits Mary
The Angel Gabriel was sent to Nazareth by God, who had a message for a young women named Mary who lived there.
Mary was extremely surprised when the angel Gabriel appeared, and was quite confused when the angel told her that she was going to have a baby, a son who would be named Jesus and who would reign over the people of God for ever.
When Mary asked how it would happen, the angel Gabriel said that the power of God through the Holy Spirit, would enter her and that the child would be called "Son of God."
Mary replied, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord, let it be with me according to your word."
Then the angel disappeared.
No 16 Jesus is born
Joseph and Mary went from Nazareth to Bethlehem, Joseph's family town, to be counted by the Romans, along with many other Jewish families. When they arrived at Bethlehem, all the rooms were full, and they had to stay in a stable, where Mary's baby was born.
The first to hear about the baby were shepherds, on a hill overlooking Bethlehem. At first the shepherds were terrified when the host of angels lit up the sky above them, but then they became intrigued by the angel's message. They went to Bethlehem to see the newborn baby for themselves, the baby who would grow up to be the Saviour of his people, the Messiah.
Meanwhile, some wise men (or stargazers) from the east, who had read in the star of an amazing event, the birth of a new King of the Jews, arrived in Jerusalem. They went to Herod's palace, believing that a newborn King would be found there, but Herod knew nothing. Herod's advisers told him that the Scriptures said that God's Messiah would come from Bethlehem, so Herod told the stargazers to search there and to let him know what they discovered. Following a star that appeared to have been guiding them, the stargazers found the place where Joseph, Mary and Jesus were. They knelt down in adoration and offered Jesus their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Then, having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went home a different way.
No 17 John the Baptist
Zechariah and Elizabeth had thought they would never have a child, but sending his message through an angel, God promised them a son. When the baby was born, they were overjoyed, and named him John, as the angel had told them.
John, like Samuel before him, was brought up to be holy and serve God. John was Jesus' cousin, and when both were grown up they began their ministry of teaching the people about God and God's Kingdom.
One day, when John, who wore clothing made of camel's hair, was preaching in the widerness by the river Jordan and baptising those who wanted a fresh start, he saw Jesus coming along and told the people that Jesus was the one they ought to follow and learn from.
Then Jesus was baptised by John, and as he came out of the water the heavens seemed to open and he saw the spirit of God like a dove come down and land on Him.
And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with him I am well pleased."
No 18 The Wedding at Cana
When a family friend was getting married in the nearby village of Cana, among those invited to the wedding were Jesus, his disciples and his mother, Mary.
During the wedding feast, Mary noticed that the wine had run out, so she told Jesus – and she told the serving people to do whatever Jesus asked. Jesus noticed six stone water jars and asked the servers to fill them with water, which they did.
Then Jesus told them to pour some out and take it to the chief steward, who tasted it.
Then the chief steward said to the bridegroom that most people served the best wine first and then served cheaper wine, but that he appeared to have kept the best wine for last.
The turning of water into wine was the first of the signs that Jesus really was God’s Son, for it was a miracle.
No 18 The Wedding at Cana
When a family friend was getting married in the nearby village of Cana, among those invited to the wedding were Jesus, his disciples and his mother, Mary.
During the wedding feast, Mary noticed that the wine had run out, so she told Jesus – and she told the serving people to do whatever Jesus asked. Jesus noticed six stone water jars and asked the servers to fill them with water, which they did.
Then Jesus told them to pour some out and take it to the chief steward, who tasted it.
Then the chief steward said to the bridegroom that most people served the best wine first and then served cheaper wine, but that he appeared to have kept the best wine for last.
The turning of water into wine was the first of the signs that Jesus really was God’s Son, for it was a miracle.
No 19 The Woman at the Well
The Jews believed that God's Messiah would act on their behalf only, because they were God's special people.
But when Jesus met a Samaritan woman at the well, what he said to her made it clear that all people who worship God are valued by God.
No 20 The Poor Widow
In Jesus's day, most people thought that to get to heaven you would have to be rich but Jesus told them it wasn't true.
One day when Jesus was in the temple with his disciples, he was watching rich people put their gift into the temple treasury chest.
When he noticed a poor widow put in two small copper coins, Jesus said to his disciples that she had really given much more to God than the rich people had, because those coins were all she had to live on.
What matters is not how much you have, but how much of what you have you give to God and the work of His Kingdom.
No 21 Jairus' Daughter
A lot of people came to Jesus to be healed, but one day a man called Jairus, a leader of the Jewish synagogue, went to ask for healing for his daughter, whom he'd left at home.
He said that the girl, who was only twelve, was dying, but while he was still telling Jesus about her, one of his friends came to say it was too late, the girl had already died.
Jesus told them not to worry, but to believe in God's will for good, and the girl would be saved.
Jesus went to Jairus' house, where there were women crying at the dead child's bedside.
He sent everyone out except Jairus, his wife and three of his disciples, then held the girl's hand and told her to get up - which, to everyone’s amazement she did.
It was a miracle!
No 22 The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Jesus told many stories or parables, and this is one of the best known stories.
A man who was travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho was ambushed by robbers, who beat him up, took his clothes and money, and went off leaving him half dead.
A priest and a lawyer who came past ignored the poor man, but a Samaritan was filled with pity for him.
He bandaged the man's wounds, put him onto his own donkey, took him to an inn and paid for him to stay there until he felt better.
The interesting thing about this story is that those who should have helped the injured man, because he was a Jew like them, did not help.
The one who did help was another nationality, but he was the one who showed God's love.
No 23 Jesus blessing the Children
Wherever Jesus went, the crowds gathered around to hear him teach and to ask for help and healing.
In one place, people brought little children to be blessed by Jesus, but the disciples became cross and were going to send them away thinking that children were too young to know anything.
Jesus then told his disciples off, and said, “Let the little children come to me, do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the Kingdom of God belongs. Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”
Then Jesus gave all the children his blessing.
No 24 The Paralysed Man and his Friends
One day, when Jesus was in the town of Capernaum, people came from all around asking to be healed.
There was such a crowd in the house were Jesus was that four men, who had brought their friend on a sleeping mat, couldn’t get anywhere near Jesus.
They went up onto the roof, made a opening, and lowered their friend into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
When Jesus saw how much faith they had in his power to heal, he told the man to get up, pick up his mat and go home.
Immediately, the man who had been unable to walk got up and walked out, to everyone's amazement.
Then the crowd praised God because they had seen something wonderful happen.
No 25 the Boy with the Loaves and Fish
Having heard of the miracles that Jesus had performed, a huge crowd followed him and his disciples everywhere he went
In one place, about five thousand people had gathered to hear Jesus speak, and when it got to lunchtime, Jesus wondered where they could get food for the people.
Phillip told Jesus that even six months' wages wouldn't buy enough for everyone.
Then Andrew brought a boy to Jesus, saying that the boy had five barley loaves and two fish, but that they wouldn't go far.
However. Jesus sat the people down, asked God's blessing and then passed them round.
Everyone received as much as they needed, and when the leftovers were gathered up they filled twelve baskets.
People said it was another sign that Jesus was the Messiah.
No 26 Zaccheus
When Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem with his disciples, a crowd gathered as he passed through Jericho.
One of the men there, who collected taxes for the Romans, wanted to see Jesus but because he was short he couldn’t see over the crowd.
He ran ahead a little way and climbed a tree so that he could see Jesus as he went past.
When Jesus got near to the tree, he told Zaccheus to get down because he wanted to have tea at Zaccheus’s house.
The crowd grumbled at this because Zaccheus had grown extremely rich by taking their money in taxes, and they didn’t like him for that – and because he worked for the Romans. But Zaccheus told Jesus that he was sorry for what he had done and who he had become, and wanted to make amends.
He promised to give his money to charity and to give four times as much back to those he had overcharged in taxes.
Then Jesus said that God would accept Zaccheus, and that his mission was always to seek out and to save lost souls like him.
No 27 Jesus in Bethany
Two sisters called Martha and Mary lived with their brother, Lazarus, in a village called Bethany.
Jesus was always welcome to their home and often stayed with them when he was going to Jerusalem.
One day, when Mary was chatting to Jesus, Martha became annoyed that she had to do all the work herself, and she complained.
Jesus told her not to get so bothered, but to make the most of the time they had with him.
No 28 The raising of Lazarus
One day people came from Bethany to tell Jesus that his friend Lazarus was really ill.
Even though Jesus was very fond of Lazarus, Mary and Martha, he didn’t go to them straight away, but stayed where he was for another couple of days, saying that Lazarus’ illnes was not life threatening.
However, when he reached Bethany, Martha came to meet Jesus with bad news. She said she knew that if Jesus had been there, Lazarus wouldn’t have died - and even then, if Jesus asked, God would answer his prayers.
Lazarus had been dead for four days, and had already been buried, but Jesus ordered that the tomb be opened, in spite of the smell.
Then Jesus prayed, and called Lazarus to come out of the tomb. Lazarus came out, still wrapped in his burial cloths, to everyone’s astonishment. Many people came to believe in Jesus, who revealed God’s power in miraculous deeds, because Lazarus was brought back to life after he had died.
No 29 Palm Sunday
Jesus and his disciples went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. When they were nearly there, Jesus sent two disciples to collect a donkey from the next village.
Then Jesus rode the donkey through the city gates of Jerusalem, acting out a prophecy from the book of the prophet Zechariah.
A large crowd lined that street, as they would have done for a King, and some people spread their cloaks, while others cut branches from the palm trees and spread them on the road in front of Jesus.
They all cheered as he rode by, shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"
No 29 Palm Sunday
Jesus and his disciples went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. When they were nearly there, Jesus sent two disciples to collect a donkey from the next village.
Then Jesus rode the donkey through the city gates of Jerusalem, acting out a prophecy from the book of the prophet Zechariah.
A large crowd lined that street, as they would have done for a King, and some people spread their cloaks, while others cut branches from the palm trees and spread them on the road in front of Jesus.
They all cheered as he rode by, shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"
No 30 The Last Supper
Arrangements had been made for Jesus and his disciples to share the Passover meal in an upper room in Jerusalem.
When they had all arrived, Jesus began to wash his disciples feet, doing the task of a servant, to demonstrate God's love.
Then they took their places at the table.
While they were eating, Jesus blessed a loaf of bread, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "This is my body".
Then he took a cup of wine, gave thanks to God, and told the disciples to drink.
He said, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
Then he added, "Do this every time you need to remember me."
After the meal was finished, they all went out to the garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus was arrested.
No 30 The Last Supper
Arrangements had been made for Jesus and his disciples to share the Passover meal in an upper room in Jerusalem.
When they had all arrived, Jesus began to wash his disciples feet, doing the task of a servant, to demonstrate God's love.
Then they took their places at the table.
While they were eating, Jesus blessed a loaf of bread, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "This is my body".
Then he took a cup of wine, gave thanks to God, and told the disciples to drink.
He said, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
Then he added, "Do this every time you need to remember me."
After the meal was finished, they all went out to the garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus was arrested.
No 30 The Last Supper
Whenever the Last Supper is celebrated we follow Jesus’ command to, “do this in remembrance of me.”.
No 31 The Crucifixion
Although the crowds had cheered for Jesus on the Sunday, by Friday they had changed their tune, and demanded that Jesus be crucified.
Carrying his own cross, Jesus was taken to be crucified, along with two others whose crosses were on either side of his.
While Jesus’ mother Mary, with her sister and Mary Magdalene watched and waited the soldiers threw dice to see who would get Jesus' clothes, which were of good quality.
No 32 The Resurrection
By the time that Jesus had died, it was almost dusk, which meant that the Sabbath day would begin, so he had to be buried quickly in the tomb made available by Joseph of Arimathea.
It was Sunday morning before the two women called Mary could go to the tomb to finish anointing Jesus’ body, according to their custom.
As they drew near, there was an earthquake and an angel rolled the stone away from the entrance to the tomb.
His appearance was like lightning and his clothing was as white as snow. The temple guard stationed at the tomb was stunned.
The angel told the women not to be afraid, because Jesus had risen from the dead.
They saw the empty burial cloths and began to run off to tell the disciples, but suddenly they saw the risen Jesus, and fell at his feet and worshipped him. He said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
No 33 Breakfast on the Beach
The disciples had gone to Galilee to wait for Jesus to appear, but Peter grew bored and decided to go fishing.
Six of the others went with him, but they caught nothing all night.
As they were making their way back, just before dawn, they saw someone on the beach and heard him tell them to cast their net on the right side of the boat. When they did, they caught so many fish that they couldn't haul the net in, but had to drag it along towards the beach.
Then Peter jumped out of the boat and splashed towards Jesus, leaving the others to deal with the boat and the net full of fish. Jesus told them to bring some of the fish they had caught.
When they all reached Jesus, they saw that he had a fire burning and was cooking breakfast for them.
Like he had done at the Last Supper they had shared with him, Jesus took the bread and fish, broke it, and gave it to them. Then they knew that he really was Jesus and that he truly was alive again.
Through Jesus, who had died, been buried and had risen from death to new life, God shows how much he loves his people.
The Knitted Bible as seen at
Park Grove Methodist Church, March 2014