‘Jesus the Troublemaker - his last 8 days’ is a brand new look at Jesus during Holy Week.  We walk with him up the hot dusty road from Jericho to his dramatic confrontations with the Temple authorities.   Based on the gospels of Mark, Luke and John, Jesus, or rather Yeshua, is placed firmly into his Jewish context.  So we encounter the daily worship in the Temple, and Jesus’ last supper as a proper Passover celebration.   Here is how the story starts:

“Listen!”  said Yeshua.  ”We are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the leading priests and the Torah-teachers, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Goyim; they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again.”

The group sat stunned, mouths open, hardly able to move.  There was a full two minutes’ silence.  Then Yeshua stretched his back, got up and said, “Time to get moving.”