1990
Easter
April 1990


“Easter,” Friend, Apr. 1990, 42

Easter

Crossword puzzle

Across

  1. (Roman) governor

  2. High priest to whom Jesus was taken

  3. Crown of __________

  4. Prisoner released by choice of crowd

  5. Person who three times denied knowing Jesus

  6. Person who helped carry cross

  7. Where Jesus went to pray

  8. Kind of cloth His body was wrapped in

  9. Governor’s question: “Art thou the ____________ of the Jews?”

  10. Person Mary first thought He was outside tomb

Down

  1. “Place of a skull”—where Jesus was crucified

  2. Person who betrayed Him

  3. Woman to first find empty tomb

  4. Person who at first doubted His resurrection

  5. Another name for “feast of unleavened bread”

  6. “My God, my God, why hast thou _____________ me?”

  7. _____________ of Arimathaea, who asked governor for Jesus’ body

  8. Article of clothing put on Jesus by soldiers

  9. Price for betrayal: thirty pieces of ____________

  10. Object blocking entrance to tomb

Answers can be found in Matthew 26–27 [Matt. 26–27]; John 20.

Answers:

  • Across—(5) Pontius Pilate, (6) Caiaphas, (7) thorns, (9) Barabbas, (12) Peter, (13) Simon, (16) Gethsemane, (18) linen, (19) King, (20) gardener. Down—(1) Golgotha, (2) Judas Iscariot, (3) Mary Magdalene, (4) Thomas, (8) Passover, (10) forsaken, (11) Joseph, (14) robe, (15) silver, (17) stone.