Why was Jesus’ death and resurrection important to us Christians today?

GCSE Religious Studies (Philosophy & Ethics)

A.M.D.G. Joe Morrison

R.E. Coursework

1. Why was Jesus’ death and resurrection important to us Christians today?

For this section of my coursework, I will examine the theological & historical events of Jesus death, the build up to his death, and his resurrection after his death. I will show how important these events are for us Christians today, and how Marks gospel outlined these reasons.

Jesus made life better for people around him. In Mark 2:13-25 Jesus went to a tax collector in the town of Galilee called Levi. Levi was an outcast and nobody liked him. But Jesus gave him time and went to his house for a meal, with some other people who were outcasts. Jesus made them feel special, which aroused suspicion from some of the teachers of the law. ‘Why does he eat with these people’ asked one of them to his disciples. Jesus simply replies with “It is not the healthy who need a doctor. I have not come for the righteous, but sinners.
Also in Mark 11:15 – 25, we are told about Jesus driving traders out of the temple, out of God’s house. People who were trading there were committing daylight robbery, and Jesus was extremely angry. “He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those who were selling doves.” He called the temple “his house”, and said that they had made it into a “den of robbers”.
The Sanhedrin attempted to prove Jesus’ guilt of a religious charge of the very serious for them days blaspheme, because they thought that Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, which of course he did not. Jesus understood the term to mean a suffering servant as prophesised by Isaiah in the Old Testament. But the people took it wrongly, and thought he would try to take over.

At the Passover meal, which Jesus and his disciples this year called ‘The Last Supper’, Jesus sent two of his disciples into the city and told them that a man carrying a jug of water would be there to meet them, and he told them to follow this man. So they did, and the Passover feast was prepared, and so was the Last Supper for Jesus and his disciples.

Jesus told his disciples that one of them would betray him, and he knew he was going to die, and that peter would deny knowing him three times before a ...

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