Today is Palm Sunday, and if you ‘d like to better appreciate the events in Jesus’s life that led to his crucifixion (Friday) and resurrection (Sunday), I’d encourage you to read the portions in your Bible that correspond to the days of the week in which they occurred in the life of Christ. There are some difficulties in figuring the week out, but most agree that the triumphal entry was on Sunday, Jesus controlled the temple complex on Monday and Tuesday, he ate the Last Supper on Thursday, and he was arrested and crucified on Friday.
You can read the story in any of the four gospels (all of which dedicate a huge portion to this week), or you can get the fullest picture by reading all four together. This is easiest if you have a gospel harmony that puts the four gospels in parallel columns (I use Thomas, NIV Harmony of the Gospels; also in NASB). A few years ago I went through and tried to pick the “fullest” account of each event and I created a list (doc). You can read through each day’s events either in a regular Bible or in a gospel harmony.