Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 26:4

Wake up… Put on a stiff new outfit… Watch children battle over plastic eggs like their lives depend on it… Does this sound like Easter to you? Join in as we take a fresh, deeper look at the Easter season and the hope it’s meant to bring!

Phillips, Craig & Dean help you find reminders of God’s unconditional love and absolute sovereignty through Jesus Christ. He is the hope we can cling to and reach for when the world around us seems out of control.

Explore the reasons behind your choice to follow Christ. This isn't about converting others, but as Christians, we must articulate our faith logically, clearly, and rooted in the Bible. The scripture urges us to defend our faith and honor Him. Join this concise four-day study to equip yourself in defending the hope found in Jesus, our Lord, and Savior.

For many of us, the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection is a familiar one. But, what about the week before? The days that lead up to Jesus’ death are filled with stories that give us insight into how he fulfilled God’s plan for creation in an unexpected, but powerful way. Experience his humanity and love for us as you walk with him through his final week on Earth.

As Savior, Jesus walked among our mess and pain. He is also King of all—holy, mighty, and just. For the next seven days, we will be reading through portions of the Gospels, reflecting on what we can learn about following Jesus as we study and honor His death and resurrection.

This plan is designed to provide a special time alone with the Lord during Holy Week. Each day you will be prompted to pause, ponder, and pray through a passage in the Gospel of Matthew. Your heart will be encouraged, your faith strengthened, and your prayer life enriched as you prepare for Easter. May it impact your walk with the Lord for years to come.

The happiness on Palm Sunday, the surprise at the Last Supper, the sadness at the cross, the joy at the tomb—the week of Jesus’ death and resurrection was filled with emotion. In this plan by Dr. Josh and Christi Straub, your family will journey through the key moments of Holy Week by encountering the emotions people felt during the week that changed the world.

This 8-Day devotional pairs Scripture with study notes and images adapted from the ESV Archaeology Study Bible —all designed to help you enter into the story of Jesus’s final days and travel through Scripture on his path to the cross, learning more about the people and places he encountered along the way.

Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday and ends with Easter Sunday. By following Christ's footsteps through daily scripture readings, take your own spiritual journey and prepare your heart for honoring him this Easter.

BibleProject designed this plan to help individuals, families, and groups reflect on Jesus' final days and celebrate his resurrection. This eight-day plan incorporates animated videos, summaries, and daily prayers to guide you through Jesus' triumphal entry, confrontation with Israel’s leaders, sacrificial death, and victorious resurrection. Choose this plan and experience how each day of Holy Week points to the unending love of God's Kingdom.

An Easter devotional featuring podcast teacher Tara-Leigh Cobble from “The Bible Recap.” This 8-day exploration of the events of Holy Week allows you to walk with Jesus through the momentous days from Palm Sunday through Easter. Along with devotional content that helps bring the personal experience of Jesus to life.

"Your King is Coming" explores the final week of Jesus’ pre-resurrection life as seen in the Gospel of Matthew. This 8-day devotional starts on Palm Sunday and ends on Resurrection Sunday. Join the Regent University School of Divinity faculty as we agree with the prophetic voice of Zechariah and say "Behold, Your King is Coming".

This plan will guide you through the events of each day in Holy Week, from the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday to the resurrection on Easter Sunday.

Every year, believers come together for a weeklong celebration of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. From Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday, let us reflect on how God demonstrated His love for humanity by sending His Son to die on the cross and bring us to a place of grace and love, enabling us to live a life marked by Christ’s triumph.

The story of Easter in holy scripture gives us exact times, dates, and sequences of the events during Passion week. This audio plan will walk you in real time through each day. We hope you will join us for what will most certainly be an extraordinary and life-changing experience.

Walk through each day of Holy Week, following Jesus’ path to the cross. This plan will walk you through the Biblical background of each day and give you guided prayers and meditations to help you savor the Gospel at every turn.

Easter can feel like another day on the calendar instead of a defining moment that impacts how we see every other day of our lives. Starting with Palm Sunday, this plan walks you through each day of Holy Week and draws out themes that remind us that with Jesus we don't experience new life just once a year, but every single day.

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In Hope Has a Name, you’ll learn alongside the earliest disciples that sharing the hope of Christ is worth sacrificing our lives. Witness Stephen stand trial and remain unshaken as He testifies to the promised Messiah. Enter Matthew’s action-packed account as Jesus faithfully prepares to redeem His people. Like the first disciples, will you tell Jesus’s story of hope with the life He’s won for you?

This reading plan explores the first Gospel. This Gospel explains that Jesus was the king of Jews that brought the kingdom of heaven, even though Jesus didn't arrive in the way people expected.

The Christian faith is first and foremost concerned with the spiritual. But the Bible also has a lot to say about practical things like money and wealth! This reading plan introduces some good biblical advice on this topic and helps you discover what is really valuable in life.

God with Us: The Four Gospels Woven Together in One Telling is a captivating new book that looks and feels like a paperback novel. But it’s not a story based on Jesus’ life, with fictionalized embellishment. It is the story of Jesus’ life, told entirely in the words of the four Gospels in the New Living Translation. This reading plan is not the full account of God with Us but takes you through select events during Jesus’ final week as he visits Jerusalem for the last time leading up to his death and resurrection.

Favor is simply God's supernatural provision that enables us to live beyond our natural abilities. It is available to everyone, and it comes by grace. Learn how to pursue God's favor over the next 21 days, and ready yourself for an outpouring of favor that will accelerate your kingdom assignment!

In this 21-day plan, Jared Brock, award-winning biographer and author of A God Named Josh, illuminates Jesus’s last days on earth. With depth and insight, Brock weaves archaeology, philosophy, history, and theology to create a portrait of Jesus that you’ve never seen before and draws you closer to Him.

In Matthew 26-28, we read in detail about Jesus' suffering, death and resurrection. This reading plan will help you go step by step through this impressive story and discover how these events have great meaning for you as well.