... Magdalene and Martha were close friends of Jesus and Jesus would have confided in them greatly. If Jesus can have such respect for women why can't the church in letting them be ordained? However, at the last supper Mary Magdalene was asked to leave, it was a clear instruction that Jesus only wanted males around him at this time. It was arranged in such a way ... that it was twelve men that Jesus spoke to and instructed about the sacrament of the Eucharist. Perhaps, inferring that women were less trustworthy of men therefore could be ... it was only male disciples that Jesus had. Howeve...

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• Grade Level: High School

... (Lk 19.45). Jesus preaches at the temple and then gives a prophecy that the temple will be destroyed and he leaves never to return to the temple. The Sanhedrin meets and decides that they must question Jesus. Jesus and his disciples eat at the Last Supper (22.14) and Judas leaves abruptly to go get the chief priests and the temple guards. The temple guards come and arrest Jesus at ... the Garden of Gethsemane and take him to the chief priest's house to be questioned. Jesus confesses ... that he is the messiah and the Sanhedrin condemns him. Judas then hangs himself from a tree ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School