The Last Hours of Jesus: From Gethsemane to Golgotha

by Fr. Ralph Gorman

Overview

Each of the four Gospels tells only part of the story of Jesus . . . and all of them leave out background facts that are essential to understanding events surrounding Jesus' arrest, trial, and crucifixion.

That's because the Gospels were written for readers already familiar with many of the persons, places, parties, and politics that governed events in those long-past days. Not so modern readers, twenty centuries later!

Which is why Fr. Ralph Gorman has here crafted a single, unforgettable, detailed account that combines material from all four Gospels with critically-important Old Testament passages, plus relevant facts from Jewish and Roman history, laws, traditions, and practices. He also includes helpful first century military, political, geographical, and archaeological information and keen depictions of Gospel places based on his three years residence there.

The result?

A richly-textured, moment-by-moment account that brings to vivid life the powerful events that transpired between Jesus' Agony in the Garden and His death on the Cross – a narrative that actually provides a fuller treatment of the events of Passion Week than is found in any of the Gospels.

From The Last Hours of Jesus, you'll come to learn scores of new – and often surprising – things, including:

• The exact moment that Satan entered Judas
• The dangerous political currents in Palestine that fueled the fatal events of Holy Week
• Why Jesus refused to answer many of His accusers
• Pontius Pilate: why he admired — but condemned — Jesus
• Why, so quickly, Palm Sunday's “Hosannas” led to Good Friday's “Crucify him!”
• Why, after His death, the Sanhedrin still feared Jesus
• And much more to enrich your knowledge, understanding, and love of Jesus!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781622824700
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	01/18/2018
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	476,968
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ralph Gorman was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1897. He attended the Catholic University of America and was ordained a priest of the Passionist Order in 1924. He studied further at the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique in Jerusalem and taught Scripture at St. Michael’s Monastery in Union City, New Jersey. He served as editor of the for twenty-four years and wrote two books: The Last Hours of Jesus and The Trial of Christ

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Prologue

1 The Background 5

2 The Conflict 13

3 Judas Iscariot 19

4 The Last Supper 31

The Passion

5 Gethsemane 45

6 The Meaning of Gethsemane 63

7 The Betrayal 73

8 Jesus and His Captors 83

9 Annas 93

10 Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin 107

11 Peter's Denials 127

12 The Death of Judas 137

13 Christ Brought before Pilate 143

14 Herod Antipas 163

15 Christ Returned to Pilate 173

16 Christ Condemned 199

17 The Way of the Cross 209

18 Calvary 223

19 The Seven Last Words 243

After Christ's Death

20 The Prodigies 273

21 The Burial of Jesus 279

Biographical Note: Fr. Ralph Gorman, C.P. 291