Across 3. Jesus did not carry the whole cross. He was given this part to carry. 5. The place carved out of rock in which Jesus’s body was buried. 10. The name given to an agonisingly slow death on a cross by suffocation. 13. The name of the garden in which Jesus was arrested. 15. He promised to die alongside Jesus but later denied he even knew him. 16. The Sanhedrin delegates told Pilate that anyone who claims to be a king is an enemy of this important person.
17. The name of the place outside the city walls where Jesus was put to death. 18. He was the High Priest who led Jesus’s interrogation in the Hall of Hewn Stones. 19. A Roman guard thrust this into Jesus’s side to make sure that he was dead. 20. The Sanhedrin delegates told Pilate that Jesus was guilty of this serious crime.
Down 1. The name given to the day on which Jesus was tried and executed (2 words: 4, 6). 2. The name given to the private meal Jesus shared with his closest friends on Holy Thursday evening (2 words: 4, 6).
4. The name of the official post held by Pontius Pilate. 6. The apostle who betrayed Jesus. 7. This involved a man being tied to a post and repeatedly struck upon the back with a many-stranded whip.
8. The number of hours Jesus suffered on the cross before dying. 9. The man from Arimathea who claimed Jesus’s body for burial. 11. Pilate asked Jesus if he was this and Jesus replied that he was (4 words: 4, 2, 3, 4). 12. The crowd chose to free him instead of Jesus. 14. Herod Antipas’ men placed a crown of these on Jesus’s head.
