New Testament LESSON 26
Teaching Primary & Home – Come Follow Me just got easier with our activities for JUNE (week #4)
Theme: “It Is Finished”
Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 19
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• SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS to get them reading.
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TEENS
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Lesson 26 Scripture Scholars
Week’s Scripture Scholars BOOKMARKS & scripture POP-UP Includes:
• BOOKMARKS with Come, Follow Me scriptures to read and discuss topics for Primary and Individuals and Families. Also, for Sunday School (teens).
• POP-UP to glue in scripture binding next to the scripture you underline.
EXTRA ITEMS (not included) … THERE’S MORE:
• STAMP. Award readers with a STAMP for the week’s scripture reading. See below to find matching STAMPS.
• STAMP KEEPER. These can be placed on the STAMP KEEPER (see below) where you can collect 50 stamps for the year
Lessons 23-36 Scripture Scholars
June’s BUNDLE of BOOKMARKS, POP-UPs, and STAMPS. Glue STAMPS onto the STAMP KEEPER (to download separately, below).
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Stamps for weeks 1-4 Scripture Scholars Lessons 23-26 – New Testament – Included in the BUNDLE
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. . . JESUS LOVES ME & DIED FOR ME . . .
Matthew 27:11–66; Luke 23; John 19
Because Jesus died for me, I can be resurrected.
Little children might be upset by the accounts of Jesus’s Crucifixion. “Chapter 52: The Trials of Jesus” and “Chapter 53: Jesus Is Crucified” (in New Testament Stories, 133–38, or the corresponding videos on ChurchofJesusChrist.org) provide a good model for how you might appropriately share this story with them.
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Show the picture in this week’s outline in Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families as you tell about Jesus’s trial, Crucifixion, and burial (see also Gospel Art Book, nos. 57–58). Invite the children to share what they know about these events. Emphasize that on the third day, Jesus was resurrected. In other words, He came back to life.
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Ask the children to name some things their parents do for them that they cannot do for themselves. Show a picture of the Savior. Explain that because of Jesus, we can be resurrected—something we cannot do ourselves.
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Show a picture of someone you know who has died. Share your testimony that because of Jesus that person will one day live again.
OLDER CHILDREN
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Matthew 27:11–66; Luke 23; John 19
Jesus died for me because He loves me.
Why are you grateful that Jesus Christ died for you? Consider how you can help the children understand the significance of the Savior’s sacrifice for them.
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Write key events from Matthew 27:11–66 on separate pieces of paper (for help doing this, see “Chapter 52: The Trials of Jesus” and “Chapter 53: Jesus Is Crucified,” in New Testament Stories, 133–38, or the corresponding videos on ChurchofJesusChrist.org). Invite the children to study these verses and place the events in the correct order.
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Ask a child to read Matthew 27:54, and invite the children to share things about Jesus that help them know He is the Son of God.
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Ask the children what they learn about the Crucifixion from “Behold the Great Redeemer Die” (Hymns, no. 191) or another sacrament hymn. Why was Jesus willing to suffer for us? (see Doctrine and Covenants 18:10–11; 19:16).
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
Because Jesus died for me, I can be resurrected.
Jesus died for me because He loves me.
GAME & SING ALONG. EASTER HOSANNA mini memorize song graphic cards and memory game. Write lyrics on the back of the cards. Make it a challenge by writing half the verse on one card and the rest on the other matching card. For example, on the Hosanna card(s) #5 write the chorus “Hosanna! Blessed be the name … (on the first card) “of the Most High God!” (on the second card). READ MORE
AGES 1-5 ACTIVITY. JESUS LIVES AGAIN! poster or coloring page. Bear your testimony of Jesus and His power to bring life to the earth. Say that we can trust and believe in Him. Read John 11:25: “Jesus said . . . I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” HOME ACTIVITY tells children “we will live again.” READ MORE
AGES 4-7 LESSON ACTIVITY. I CAN LIVE FOREVER! resurrection garden tomb slideshow. Before we came to earth Jesus volunteered to be our Savior, to come to earth and die for us and be resurrected so we could also live forever. The tomb slideshow is of this story. READ MORE
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. HE HAS RISEN! write a story. Youth can learn from the images and scriptures about the resurrection, then write in their own words the stories. Both the Bible and The Book of Mormon testify of Jesus and His resurrection. READ MORE
SCRIPTURE ACTIVITY. JESUS VOLUNTEERED TO BE MY SAVIOR John 15:13 bite-size memorize. Remind youth that in premortal life Jesus volunteered to be our Savior as they memorize: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” READ MORE
SINGING TIME. “JESUS HAS RISEN” song visuals. Youth can know that Jesus is our Savior and because He died and was resurrected it makes it possible for all mankind to live again. Write the words on the cue cards (in your language) to place on the back of the song visuals, e.g., “Joy fills our hearts; He lives again.” READ MORE
. . . JESUS FORGIVE & I CAN FORGIVE . . .
I can forgive others as Jesus did.
How will you help the children understand how to forgive those who are unkind, as Jesus did?
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Describe how the soldiers were unkind to Jesus (see Matthew 27:26–37), and then read Luke 23:34. Explain that when we forgive others, we aren’t angry at them anymore and we show love to them.
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Share examples in which someone says or does something unkind. Invite the children to talk about how they could show forgiveness in these situations.
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Sing together a song about forgiveness, such as “Help Me, Dear Father” (Children’s Songbook, 99). Ask questions that are answered in the song, like “Whom should we forgive?” or “Who can help us when forgiving is hard?”
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Search a recent issue of The Friend to find a story about a child who forgave someone. Share this story with the children.
OLDER CHILDREN
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It can be hard to forgive others. The children you teach will be blessed as they follow the Savior’s example and learn to forgive.
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Invite the children to take turns reading about the soldiers being unkind to Jesus in Matthew 27:26–37 and Jesus forgiving them in Luke 23:34. (See the insight provided by the Joseph Smith Translation in Luke 23:34, footnote c.) What do we learn from Jesus’s example?
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Write on the board What can you do to forgive someone who is unkind to you? Let the children take turns writing ideas on the board, such as Pray to have kind feelings toward the person or Think of something good about the person.
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
I can forgive others as Jesus did.
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. SMOOTH SAILING FAMILY Lovey’s Landing SOS Game. As youth choose boats with family problems, they can drive them to the right Save Our Ship Dock: Faith, Prayer, Repentance, or Forgiveness. For example. Linda Lovey worried about her brother who was very sick. What should she do? Park the boat at the PRAYER dock and invite discussion. READ MORE
AGES 1-5 ACTIVITY. I CAN FORGIVE OTHERS! poster or coloring page. Children can learn the story of how Joseph who was sold into Egypt, forgave his brothers for selling him as a slave. Joseph was made in charge of the grain that fed the people in a famine. When his brothers came to get the grain, he forgave them. We can forgive others. The HOME ACTIVITY tells them to forgive when someone hurts them. READ MORE
AGES 4-7 ACTIVITY. FORGIVE, FORGET, FOREVER, FOR JESUS necklace. Children can be reminded to 4-Forgive others, Forget what they did, Forever, For Jesus, knowing this is a commandment. Teach them a story of how Jesus forgave His disciples when they turned the children away. Jesus told them to bring the children to Him. He taught the children and let them know He loved them (Luke 18:15-17). READ MORE
AGES 8-11 LESSON ACTIVITY. UNMERCIFUL SERVANT forgiveness story wall hanging. Youth can connect this Matthew 18:21-35; 6:12, 14-15 story with D&C 58:42 filling in the blanks to discover how Jesus’s disciples were not forgiving and were afflicted with the greater sin. The Lord is the one to forgive; we are required to forgive all. READ MORE
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. KINDLY FORGIVE Ephesians 4:32 rebus poster & peace rose card. Youth can learn this scripture to remind them that their presence personally and on social media is trusted by all and especially the Lord, to be kind and forgiving. It is easier than trying to take back unkind words/actions. Also, God forgives; why can’t we? READ MORE
SINGING FUN. HELP ME, DEAR FATHER song visuals. Children can know from singing these “Help me, dear Father” words that they need to “freely forgive all …” They ask for help in repenting, making things right, and changing their ways. “Help me, each day, Father, I pray; Help me live nearer, nearer to thee.” READ MORE
. . . FORGIVENESS IS POSSIBLE WITH JESUS . . .
Because Jesus suffered and died for me, I can repent and be forgiven.
Although children under age eight are not yet accountable, it is important for them to start learning now how to repent of the wrong choices they make.
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Summarize Luke 23:32–33, 39–43, and help the children find the two thieves in picture 57 in the Gospel Art Book. Explain that when the first thief made fun of Jesus, the second thief admitted that he had done something wrong—he was beginning to repent.
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Read Doctrine and Covenants 19:16 to the children. Why did Jesus suffer for us?
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Show the video “The Shiny Bicycle” SEE BELOW (ChurchofJesusChrist.org). Explain that we can pray to Heavenly Father and He can help us fix our sins and mistakes and receive forgiveness.
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Let the children make chalk marks on the board to represent wrong choices. Then ask them to erase the board to represent repentance. Show a picture of the Savior, and testify that we can repent because of Him.
OLDER CHILDRENThis lesson is a good time to testify that because of Jesus Christ, we can repent of our sins and be forgiven.
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Invite a child to read aloud Luke 23:32–33, 39–43. Explain that the two people being crucified with Jesus were thieves. How did one of the thieves show that he was beginning to repent? What can we do to show that we are repenting? (See Guide to the Scriptures, “Repent, Repentance,” scriptures.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.)
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Write the following sentence on the board, leaving blanks for the italicized words: “I can be forgiven when I repent because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.” Give the children clues to help them fill in the blanks.
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Invite a child to hold a bag, and fill it with rocks as the other children name wrong choices someone could make. Help the children compare the bag to the spiritual burden we carry when we sin. How is repentance like taking rocks out of the bag? You might remind the children that repentance is not a one-time event but a daily process.
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Look in a recent issue of The Friend magazine for a story or message about repentance, and share it with the children.
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
Because Jesus suffered and died for me, I can repent and be forgiven.
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE Repentance Garden. Youth can play in teams or two players to climb to the top. They can choose from a deep container a flower (right choice) or a rock (wrong choice). Read the situation. If a rock, they place their butterfly under the rock (to show the heavy weight of sin), until they say how they can right the wrong. Then, place their butterfly onto a flower, climbing each time until the first to make it to the top wins. READ MORE
CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY. I CAN SAY HIPPOPOTAMUS. I CAN SAY I’M SORRY puppet. Children who can say this big word HIPPOPOTAMUS can say they are sorry for something they did wrong. Children will love to say it, even more, when they use this hand puppet to open their mouths wide as they say, “I’m Sorry!” READ MORE
AGES 4-7 ACTIVITY REPENTANCE: When I’ve done wrong repentance is my band-aid! bandage breastplate. Children can heal their spirits or a broken heart as they say they are sorry for wrongdoings. Feeling guilty is like an open wound that needs healing. Use this bandage breastplate as a reminder that by praying to Heavenly Father and talking to Him about the sin, they can repent and follow Jesus. Jesus made it possible for us to repent when He suffered for our sins. READ MORE
AGES 8-11 LESSON ACTIVITY. REPENTANCE: Jesus made it possible for me to repent! crossword puzzle This puzzle helps youth learn the message “Because Jesus suffered for my sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, I will repent and live the gospel of Jesus Christ.” Words are to be placed in the puzzle. READ MORE
YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE! goals in diaper envelope. Tell youth when you present this that they are NOW OLD ENOUGH TO ACHIEVE GOALS. They don’t need to be “babied” around or be a cry “baby” when asked to change. They simply write on the “What to change” card, post them, and achieve! Extra cards might be nice to keep those goals “moving” right along. READ MORE
SINGING TIME. “REPENTANCE” song visuals. Youth learn from this song that “‘I’m sorry’ is not always easy to say.” When they “know” they have “been thoughtless and done something wrong” they can “try to repent, to do better, to pray that Heavenly Father will help” them “be strong.” The song words can be written on cue cards and mounted on the back of visuals. READ MORE
SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS FOR:
NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 19
JUNE (week 4)
Lesson 26: June 19-25, 2023
“It Is Finished”
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