This volume follows the same user-friendly format of the earlier God So Loved the World, organizing the chapters according to the traditional days of Holy Week with expanded discussion and additional materials. After discussing the scriptural accounts for each day of Holy Week, the chapters then summarize how these scriptural events have been celebrated through the centuries in different Christian traditions before sharing suggestions on how Latter-day Saints can both study the texts and commemorate the events in their own families.

After the Last Supper and before Gethsemane, Jesus Christ delivered a series of discourses to his closest friends. In one of them he poignantly declared, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). This declaration puts his atoning suffering, death, and resurrection in a movingly personal light: Jesus did not only submit to an unfathomable ordeal and die for the world and all humanity in a general sense, although that is certainly true—he died for us because he loved us. As we accept that sacrifice, we are no longer just his servants but also his friends (see Doctrine and Covenants 84:77; John 15:15).

As disciples of Jesus Christ use the scriptures to walk with the Lord through his final days, we will know ever more surely the sublime truth that God so loved the world that he sent his Son (John 3:16)—as a gift at his birth, as a sacrifice at his death, and as a source of hope at his resurrection.