"On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread ... Jesus' disciples asked him 'Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?'... When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, 'Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- one who is eating with me'." (Mark 14:12-20)
"It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. The evening meal was in progress .... Jesus got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to Jesus, 'Lord are you going to wash my feet?' Jesus replied, 'You do not realize now what I am doing but later you will understand.... Unless I wash you, you have no part with me'." (John 13:1-5)
"They went to ... Gethsemane .... Jesus took Peter, James and John along with him .... He said to them, 'Stay here and keep watch.' 'Father,' Jesus prayed ..., 'Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.' Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping.... 'Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!'" (Mark 14:32-37)
"Then the governor's soldiers ... led Jesus away to crucify him.... When they had crucified him, they ... kept watch over him there..... Joseph [of Arimathea] took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away." (Matthew 27:27-37; 59-60)
"Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.... Mary stood outside the tomb crying.... Mary turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 'Woman,' he said, 'why are you crying? Who are you looking for?' Thinking he was the gardner, she said, 'Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.' Jesus said to her, 'Mary.' She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, 'Rabboni' (which means Teacher). Jesus said, 'Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God'." (John 20:1-17)
"On the evening of that first day of the week, when his disciples were together, with the doors locked ..., Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!'... Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, 'We have seen the Lord!' But Thomas said to them, 'Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.'... A week later ... Thomas was with them.... Then Jesus said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.' Thomas said to him, 'My Lord and my God!' Then Jesus told Thomas, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed'." (John 20:19-29)
"Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus .... Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. Jesus asked them, 'what are you discussing together as you walk along?'... One of them, named Cleopas, asked Jesus, 'Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?' 'What things?,' Jesus asked. 'About Jesus of Nazareth,' they replied. 'He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.... We had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women ... went to the tomb ... but didn't find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.... Jesus said to them, 'How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?'" Later, "when Jesus was at the table with [the two of] them, ... their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus .... They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, 'It is true! the Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.'..." Then "Jesus told them, 'This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem'." (Luke 24:13-35)
PAUL WRITING TO PHILIPPIANS FROM PRISON PROBABLY IN ROME: “I am confident … that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ….All of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.” (Philippians 1: 6-7, New Revised Standard Version)