Mary Magdalene stood at the edge of the road and cried. She knew this was going to happen. Jesus had told them over and over that he would be arrested and killed. She thought she had prepared herself for it but she was not at all prepared for what had actually happened. As she stood at the edge of the road, her eyes moving back and forth from the men lowering his body from that cross to his mother standing just behind them watching it happen. She thought about all that had happened since last night.

After the disciples had celebrated the seder, they all walked out of Jerusalem and met in the olive garden just across the Kidron Brook, in a place called Gethsemane. Jesus and the disciples went off by themselves into the garden while the rest of the group found places to try and get some rest.…