The Biblical Easter Story
The Before-Easter Story
Secular
holiday
E-A-S-T-E-R
scramble
Church calendar
100

Easter celebrates that Jesus did this after dying for our sins. 

What is rose from the dead?

100

Jesus died between two people who were crucified for having done this

What is stealing/being thieves?

100

The season many people celebrate on Easter

What is spring?

100

A short clip from a movie, to make you want to see it

What is a TEASER?

100

The Friday before Easter is this

What is Good?

200

The gender of the first people to see Jesus on Easter. 

What is female?

200

On Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on this animal

What is a donkey?

200

This animal brings Easter baskets

What is an Easter Bunny?

200

Multiple people having dinner are this noun

What are EATERS?

200

This is celebrated forty days after Easter.

What is the Ascension?

300

The angels rolled this away from the opening of the tomb

What is the (tomb)stone?

300

Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples before his death was to celebrate this Jewish holiday

What is Passover?

300

The Orthodox Church started the tradition of painting these

What are Easter Eggs?

300

A castrated bull 

What is “A STEER”?

300

The forty fasting days before Easter

What is Lent?

400

Jesus was buried in this man’s tomb

Who was Joseph of Arimethea?

400

Jesus told Martha, the sister of this man whom he raised from the dead, “I am the resurrection”

Who was Lazarus?

400

Easter beats out Halloween and Valentines for highest sales of this. 

What is candy?

400

If you ask to sit elsewhere, they do this 

What is RESEAT you?

400

On Maundy Thursday, Catholic priests wash this

What is their parishioners’ feet?

500

After Easter, Thomas said he’d believe that Jesus was alive only if he saw this

What are the nail scars in Jesus’ hands?

500

This Old Testament prophet prophesied that Jesus would be “bruised for our transgressions”

Who was Isaiah?

500

A baked good eaten in English-tradition countries on Good Friday to represent Jesus’ crucifixion

What are hot cross buns?

500

What the first letter in the alphabet is if it barely says a word

What is a TERSE A?

500

Easter is the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the vernal one of these

What is an equinox?