Holy Week
Sunday

• Jesus enters into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)
• Zechariah 9:9 - Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!

Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem!
Look, your King is coming to you;
he is righteous and victorious,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey. [1]
Monday

• Jesus clears the temple
• Matthew 21:12-13 - Jesus went into the temple and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!”[2]

Tuesday

• Jesus delivers the Olivet Discourse at the Mt. of Olives with His disciples.
• Matthew 21:23 – 24:51.

Wednesday

• No record in the Scripture

Thursday

• Jesus told Peter and John to go and prepare for the Passover Meal.

 
“Thank You Jesus for the Blood” –            Charity Gayle


THE LORD’S SUPPER
MATTHEW 26
26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take and eat it; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them and said, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”[3]

• They left singing and went to the Garden of Gethsemane
• Jesus asked them stay awake and pray with him three times.
• Matthew 26:39 - Going a little farther, he fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.[4]
• Judas came and betrayed Jesus with a kiss.
• The religious mob arrested Jesus.
• Peter cut off the High Priest’s servant's ear.
• Jesus healed the ear.
• The disciples scattered.
• Jesus’s trial with the Sanhedrin took place in the early morning hours.
• Peter denied Jesus three times before the rooster crowed.

Friday

• Before 9 AM (third hour), Jesus had been through trials and sentenced to death on the cross.
• As He was led away, He was mocked, spit on, beaten and had a crown of thorns placed on His head.
• He was mocked as Roman soldiers nailed Him to the cross and hung between two thieves.
• Jesus gave seven statements on the cross.
• The first was, Luke 23:34 - Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.”[5]
• On the 9th hour (3 PM), Jesus breathed His last and died.
• No bones were broken, as was prophesied.
• By 6 PM, Jesus was taken down and placed in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb before sundown.

 
“At this point, I am going to ask that you sit in silence for just a minute. There is no reason for you to be alarmed, trust me. But I would like to speak with our safety team in the parking lot right now. There is nothing to worry about.”
 
Saturday – The Day with No Name

• What were you experiencing in the room while I was gone?
• What were the disciples experiencing on that day?
• The crowds are gone.
• Their minds and hearts were numb.
• And they were not sure what’s next.
• Do you ever feel like you are living in the day with no name?
• You’re just waiting…
• While the whole time life is going on around you.
• Matthew 27:62-66 - The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
• 65 “You have a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.” 66 They went and secured the tomb by setting a seal on the stone and placing the guards.[6]

 
Sunday

• Early Sunday morning, several women (Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Salome, and Mary the mother of James) went to the tomb and discovered that the large stone covering the entrance had been rolled away. An angel announced:
• Matthew 28:5-7 - The angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here. For he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”[7]
• Jesus appeared to the disciples.

Matthew 28:16-20 - The eleven disciples traveled to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped, but some doubted. 18 Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”[8]

[1] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Zec 9:9.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 21:12–13.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 26:26–28.
[4] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 26:39.
[5] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Lk 23:34.
[6] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 27:62–66.
[7] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 28:5–7.
[8] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 28:16–20.

Review:

• We began in 7:1 with consideration of the issues that the Corinthian church wrote to Paul about.
• Chapter 7 dealt with the collection of issues surrounding marriage
• Chapters 8–10 with issues surrounding food sacrificed to idols and related analogous concerns
• Chapters 11–14 are a series of issues bound up directly with the gathered community in Corinth for Christian worship.[1] (public worship)
• We left off with Matt talking about head coverings and submission.
• During the age of Augustus Caesar, there was a group increasingly called “the new Roman woman.”
• Much more so in Latin or Roman contexts than in a Greek context, but recall that Corinth was a Roman colony, despite being in Greece, where women were given greater freedom, given greater public privilege, and especially those of some substantial means.
• Apparently, some of these women are having the opportunity to pray and prophesy but without what Paul believes is the appropriate head covering.[2]
• There has always been (and always will be… until all things have been made new) a competition between men and women.
• Genesis 3:16 - He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.[3]

• As for the head covering (the Greek translates it as “comes down” – which could even mean the length of hair).
• I personally believe it is a cultural practice of both men and women showing fidelity to their relationship with Jesus.
• Signifying identification is different for both men and women.
• Gender identity and competition has always been an issue.

 
THE LORD’S SUPPER
1 CORINTHIANS 11

• Paul turns to a second issue concerning public worship (Chapters 11-14)
• Since the beginning of the church, it was customary for the believers to eat together (Acts 2:42, 46).
• It was an opportunity for fellowship and for sharing with those who were less privileged.
• No doubt they climaxed this meal by observing the Lord’s Supper.[4]

17 Now in giving this instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. 19 Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you. 20 When you come together, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. 21 For at the meal, each one eats his own supper. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

• Paul is not saying, “Stop having these ‘love feasts’”.
• He is literally telling them what to do and what not to do.
• Sometimes you have to state the obvious.
• Don’t get drunk when we come together.

22 Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!

• The divide between the handful of wealthy and the vast majority of poor in the Corinthian congregation (as in the community) created a disproportionate percentage of the problems that Paul has to address.[5]
• Symposium was more of a “love feast” rather than a gathering to talk about a certain subject like it is today.
• They called this meal “the love feast” since its main emphasis was showing love for the saints by sharing with one another.
• It would be more like a pot-luck dinner today.
• Tables were placed in a u-shaped partial square and were served from the middle.
• Very typical to today’s hibachi set up.
• Each family brought food and drink to share among each other
• The rich would bring food and drink enough for them and leave the “leftovers” for the poor.
• Today, we gather on “cyber weekend” but you have still generously filled 175 stockings for those in need this month.
• There is a balance in taking care of the poor and taking care of yourself.
• That balance is dependent upon the Spirit inside of you.

23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

• And Paul’s wording is strikingly similar to the wording in Luke 22 about Jesus’ Last Supper.
• All three of the Synoptic Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—have similar accounts of this last night.
• Paul’s is closest to Luke, not because Luke was his travel companion and he got it from Luke;
• Luke’s Gospel would not be written until, at the earliest, the early 60s, and we’re still here in the mid-50s.
• No, it’s Paul and Luke who both know the oral tradition—faithfully passed on—of the words, the sayings, the teachings of Jesus.[6]
• Jesus Christ took the cup and the loaf—the ingredients of a common meal in that day—and transformed them into a meaningful spiritual experience for believers.
• However, the value of the experience depends on the condition of the hearts of those who participate; and this was the problem at Corinth.[7]
• No one would have imagined that somehow that bread supernaturally became molecular extensions of His hand and fingers.
• It’s profoundly symbolic: “This bread represents, in a deep and meaningful and religiously poignant way, my body about to be given for you in death on the cross.”
• Jesus wants us to remember how He died. Why? Because everything we have as Christians centers in that death.
• We must remember that He died, because this is a part of the Gospel message: “Christ died … and was buried” (1 Cor. 15:3–4).[8]
• He rose from the dead so as to conquer death.
• We have the ability to really live here on earth and after for eternity.
• In the midst of the pandemic, let’s practice/remember this by symbolization of eating. Simply by placing your hand to your mouth.
• “In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood.”
• No, the cup and its contents have not suddenly become blood in some physical molecular fashion, but they stand for, memorialize, represent, symbolize, in a profound way, Jesus’ giving of His life blood in death on the cross. “Do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
• His blood was shed as a sacrifice for our sins.
• Total for forgiveness was available to all.
• Total forgiveness for all believers.
• All sins: past, present and future.
• Drink from the cup with both hands.
• Jesus may not be literally present in the bread and in the cup, but He is present. He is present spiritually.[9]

 
SELF-EXAMINATION
27 So, then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself; in this way let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.

• Examine to see if they are worthy?
• We have participated in the Lord’s Supper where condemnation was expressed and we either had to deal with it immediately for refrain from participating in the Lord’s Supper.
• No, examine to see if they are behaving unworthily, in an unworthy manner.[10]

29 For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep. 31 If we were properly judging ourselves, we would not be judged, 32 but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.
33 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, welcome one another. 34 If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.[11]

• The Communion is not supposed to be a time of “spiritual autopsy” and grief.
• It should be a time of thanksgiving and joyful anticipation of seeing the Lord!
• Jesus gave thanks, even though He was about to suffer and die.
• Let us give thanks also.[12]​
• When we figure out what Jesus truly did for us… and what we have inside… it changes everything.
• Sometimes we lose focus and need to be reminded by stating the obvious.
• Remember what it was like when you stepped out of “religion” into a “relationship”?
• It is the difference of just being alive versus living.

You can really live right now

[1] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[2] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2020). (Ge 3:16). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 604). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
[5] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[6] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[7] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 605). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
[8] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 605). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
[9] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[10] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[11] Christian Standard Bible. (2020). (1 Co 11:17–34). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[12] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 607). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.

Review:

• We left off with 1 Corinthians 10:13 - No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.[1]
• I explained the distortion of God will not give you more than you can bear.
• The evil one is responsible for evil things that happen in a fallen world.
• What I did not say was that in this life… you will have more than you can bear.
• It is then… when God comes in because you have to become dependent upon Him to get you through the crisis.

 
WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRY
1 CORINTHIANS 10
14 So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15 I am speaking as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I am saying. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, since all of us share the one bread.

• Paul goes back to the argument of are the Christians able to eat the meat that was sacrificed to the idols/gods.
• Paul is saying, “Idolatry is the distraction.”
• Zoom out… think about it. What is true in this world?
• There is only one truth… why are we even arguing about what is true and what is fake?
• That stuff doesn’t even matter in your own spiritual world.
• Don’t forget that we are all about Jesus.
• We are in this together because of our faith in Jesus.
• We eat from the same loaf of bread and drink from the same cup (except during a pandemic) and that is Jesus Christ.
• We can see Paul’s main point: There is a union that occurs.
• We are united with Christ in a special, even if undefined, way through the sacrament or the ordinance, and we are unified as participants in the ritual with all those who commune with us, as symbolized by what, in the earliest stages of church history, was a single loaf and a common cup from which people ate and drank.[2]

18 Consider the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? 19 What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!

• Can you not separate the eating of meat and drink from the worshipping of demons?
• Run from what is evil.
• Run from the appearance of evil.
• Stay focused on what you know is true.
• If you are hungry and need food… eat! But don’t worship the demons.

21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons. 22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

• Paul is encouraging them to recognize the spiritual side of things.
• You can justify doing evil things because you make light of the spiritual world.
• Paul is saying, it doesn’t matter what you do. It matters that you recognize the two opposing sides: good vs evil… God vs the evil one.
• Spiritual warfare is raging.

 
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
23 “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.

• The Corinthian slogan quoted back 1 Corinthians 6:12-13.

24 No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

• It’s not straightforward how we are to behave in every setting, especially when we are in a group, and we are being scrutinized, and what may give us an advantage for the sake of the gospel with one person is viewed as a drawback by someone else.[3]
• Discernment… if you have to think about it… pause… seek wisdom.

25 Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience, 26 since the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.,

• Quoting Psalm 24:1
• Nothing spiritual happens to food itself just because a pagan priest prayed and said, “Isis,” “Osiris,” Apollo”—whoever the individual was—“may you be pleased with this offering.”[4]

27 If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.

• Don’t create more legalism
• Freedom is the keyword Paul is trying communicate.
• What would expect from an unbeliever? For them to act the same way you do?

28 But if someone says to you, “This is food from a sacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. 29 I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience? 30 If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I criticized because of something for which I give thanks?

• Paul is asking them to consider, why is the person telling you about the tainted food? Because they may have a conscience about it.
• Then don’t do it as not to confuse them.
• Measure the room. Use your wisdom.
• Sometimes you will blow it.

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or Greeks or the church of God, 33 just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

• Paul summarizes chapters 8-10 with 3 statements:
• 1) God’s glory is your #1 priority… Not your opinion or anyone else’s opinion.
• 2) Be conscious of the non-believers and even the believers who are weak so as not to lead them to sin.

 
1 CORINTHIANS 11
1 Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.[5]

• 3) As I follow Jesus, use me as an example.

 
The Lord’s supper – this is what they did when they ate together… so we shall today.

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2020). (1 Co 10:13). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[3] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[4] Blomberg, C. L. (2017). NT334 Book Study: Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2020). (1 Co 10:14–11:1). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

12. Tzafun (sa-foon): The eating of the afikoman; Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper or Communion

• Judas was not present at this point

 13. Bareich (Ba-ray): The grace said over the third cup 

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 - 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. [1]
 
2 Elements of Communion

1. Juice/wine – represents Jesus’ blood – Forgiveness of sin
2. Bread – Represents Jesus’ body -
    - Romans 7:1-4 - 1 Since I am speaking to those who know the law, brothers and sisters, don’t you know that the law rules over someone as long as he lives? 2 For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband. 3 So then, if she is married to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she is married to another man, she is not an adulteress.
3. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.[2]
    - We were born with a sinful nature.

• We were born under the law (married to it)
• We were crucified on the cross with Jesus
• Something in us had to die (sinful nature)
• It is our nature that condemns us… not our sin.
• Once our nature is brand new we are forgiven of our sin.
• Therefore, the body (bread) is taken before the blood (juice/wine).

 
THE DISPUTE OVER GREATNESS
Luke 22:24-30 -
24 Then a dispute also arose among them about who should be considered the greatest.
 - This immediately follows the 12th & 13th ceremony of the Passover Meal (Lord’s Upper)
25 But he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have authority over them have themselves called ‘Benefactors.’ 26 It is not to be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you should become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving. 27 For who is greater, the one at the table or the one serving? Isn’t it the one at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves. 28 You are those who stood by me in my trials. 29 I bestow on you a kingdom, just as my Father bestowed one on me, 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.[3]

• Mystery Kingdom (Church Age) – Acts 2 to “the Rapture”
• Messianic Kingdom – Jesus returns (Rev 20) – 1,000 reign on earth.
• The disciples gave up everything (died martyrs’ death) but they were promised great things.
• Change your theology because they were raised believing it was necessary to collect wealth to get to heaven.

 
THE NEW COMMAND
John 13:31-35 -
31 When he (Judas) had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.

• What event are we talking about?
• Crucifixion, burial & resurrection.

33 Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

• They couldn’t go to the cross.

34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” [4]

• Jesus was born under the Law and lived it perfectly.
• Jesus died for the purpose of the Law.
• Why would He put the disciples back under the Law?
• How do you love one another perfectly?
• Allowing Jesus to do it through you.
• 36 kids and 18 adults to camp… it is easy to love some… but odds are… not all… unless Jesus is doing it through you.
• It is also easier to love in the midst of crisis.

(Beth Speckman lost her father this week… Todd didn’t get the greatest of news this week…)

• Keeping this passage in the context of 66 books… we are now living under the law of Jesus Christ.
• He will do this through us!

 
PETER’S DENIAL PREDICTED
Matthew 26:31-35 - 31 Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will fall away because of me, for it is written:
I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.
 (Zechariah 13:7)
32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”
 - The disciples were so distracted with the accusation of scattering they never heard the second part of what Jesus said.

• They never heard “Go to Galilee”.

33 Peter told him, “Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.”
34 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
35 “Even if I have to die with you,” Peter told him, “I will never deny you,” and all the disciples said the same thing. [5]
 
PETER’S DENIALS PREDICTED
John 13:36-38
36 “Lord,” Simon Peter said to him, “where are you going?”
Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”
37 “Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly I tell you, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times. [6]
 
PETER’S DENIAL PREDICTED
Luke 22:31-34
31 “Simon, Simon, look out. Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

• Jesus knew that Peter was going to be the ROCK.
• Peter had been given the keys to the Church.
• Who is the first person that Jesus returns to? Peter

33 “Lord,” he told him, “I’m ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”
34 “I tell you, Peter,” he said, “the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know me.” [7]

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Co 11:23–26). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ro 7:1–4). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 22:24–30). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 13:31–35). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 26:31–35). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 13:36–38). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[7] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 22:31–34). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

• The house was supposed to be rid of leaven before Noon on Thursday – 14th of Nisan
• Peter & John killed the Passover Lamb on Thursday afternoon – 14th of Nisan
• Passover Meals was eaten after Sundown on the 14th of Nisan which was the beginning of the Jewish Friday.
• Gethsemane, Caiaphas, Pilate on Friday Evening
• Jesus was crucified at 9 AM on Friday, the 15th of Nisan
• Jesus died at 3 PM on Friday, the 15th of Nisan
• Jesus was buried before sundown on Friday.
• Jesus was in the grave on Friday before sundown – 1 day
• Jesus was in the grave all day on Saturday (Sabbath) beginning at sundown on the 15th of Nisan. – 2 days
• Jesus was in the grave on Sunday, after sundown on the 15th of Nisan. - 3 days
• Jesus was resurrected on Sunday before sunrise on the 16th of Nisan.
• Jesus was in the grave 3 Jewish days.
• Jesus fulfilled the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of First Fruits.

 
Leviticus 23:4-11 - 4 “These are the Lord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5 The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. 6 The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work. 8 You are to present a fire offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; do not do any daily work.”
9 The Lord spoke to Moses: 10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. 11 He will present the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath.[1]

• For the Jews: the Passover was significant
• For the Christians: the timing of the sacrifice was important.

Current Seder Plate was recognized until 600 AD.
This "order" is known as the “seder,”

• seder meaning "order.”
• Picture of Seder Plate
• Picture of Seder Meal
• All Jews use the same type of seder plate.
• A cup of salt water is positioned in the center of the plate.
• Reclining – Slaves had to stand or sit up straight to eat meals. So now they recline in freedom.

 
Things changed after the destruction of the temple in AD 70, for no longer could a lamb be slain for the Passover meal.

• The shank bone of a lamb is placed on the Seder plate as a memorial. The shank bone serving as a symbol of the lamb that can no longer be offered for the Passover meal.
• Roasted chicken is usually eaten today in place of the lamb during the main meal.

 

1. The Kaddeish: The first cup of wine:

The Cup of Blessing, or, The Cup of Sanctification
Current practice: Kaddeish means "sanctification,"

• Lighting of two candles soon after nightfall
• Special blessing is pronounced over the feast day
• blessing over the first cup of wine
• No wine allowed between the first & second cups.
• Occurs soon after nightfall, while the children are still alert – well before they become drowsy enough to fall asleep.

Luke 22:17 - Then He took a cup, and after giving thanks, He said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. 18 For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine (Passover wine…alcoholic) until the kingdom of God comes.”[2]

1. The Urchatz: The washing of the hands

Current practice: urchatz means "and wash,"

• Fingers dipped into water

John 13:1-20 - Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father.  Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God,  and that He was going back to God. 4 So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself. 5 Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”
8 “You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.
Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”
10 “One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who would betray Him. This is why He said, “You are not all clean.”
 
The Meaning of Footwashing
12 When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His robe, He reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  15 For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.
16 “I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. 18 I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled:  The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.
19 “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.  20 I assure you: Whoever receives anyone I send receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

1. Carpas: The eating of the green vegetable

Current practice:

• Parsley is similar to hyssop
• Hyssop being used to apply blood over doorpost.
• Dipped in salt water – tears drip off
• God parted salt waters of Red Sea

Matthew 26:21-25 - While they were eating, He said, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me.”
22 Deeply distressed, each one began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord?”
23 He replied, “The one who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl—he will betray Me. 24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
25 Then Judas, His betrayer, replied, “Surely not I, Rabbi?”
“You have said it,” He told him. [3]

1. Yachatz: The breaking of the middle Matzah

Current practice: Yachatz means “to divide”

• Plate holding 3 loaves of unleavened bread
• Loaves are wrapped together
• Middle loaf is removed and broken in half
• One half is returned
• The other half, “Afikoman”, is wrapped in linen and hidden for later (for use with the 3rd cup)
• Yachatz is not addressed in Gospels

 

1. Maggid: The Passover Story

Current practice: Maggid means “telling the story”

• The actual Passover story is told (Mishnah)
• From Abraham to Jacob
• From the enslavement in Egypt to the liberation of the Jews
• Important for the children to hear the story.
• 2nd cup is poured out (10 drops=10 plagues)

1) Water to blood
2) Frogs
3) Gnats or lice
4) Flies
5) Sick Cattle
6) Boils
7) Hail
8) Locusts
9) Darkness
10) Death of first born

• Hallel is read (Psalm 113 & 114)

 

1. Rachtzah: Washing of the hands

Current practice: Rachtzah means “washing”

• Dipping of fingers into water

 

1. Motzi: The blessing of He who brings forth bread from the earth

Current practice: Motzi means “the bringing forth”

• Blessing on the bread eaten before the main meal
• “Blessed are You, O Lord our god, ruler of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.”

 

1. Matzah: The eating of a small piece of the middle matzah and the upper matzah

Current practice:

• Each participant eats a small piece of the middle and upper matzahs.
• They all recite “Blessed are You, O Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who commanded us concerning the eating of the Matzah.”
• Points to the swiftness with which the Jews departed from Egypt.

 

1. Maror: Bitter herbs

Current practice: Maror means “bitter herbs”

• Blessing over a bitter herb
• Bitter herb is dipped in charoset
• Brings tears to the eyes in remembrance of tears shed in Egypt and loss of sons in Nile.
• Eaten with matzah (hurriedness & bitterness)

 

1. Coreich: The sandwich

Current practice: Coreich means “combining”

• 2 pieces from bottom matzah with charoset on one piece and maror on the other
• Eaten as a sandwich
• Charoset & maror replaced the lamb
• Eaten with no blessing

John 13:21-30 - When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in His spirit and testified, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me!”
22 The disciples started looking at one another—uncertain which one He was speaking about. 23 One of His disciples, the one Jesus loved, was reclining close beside Jesus. 24 Simon Peter motioned to him to find out who it was He was talking about. 25 So he leaned back against Jesus and asked Him, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.”  When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son.  27 After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Therefore Jesus told him, “What you’re doing, do quickly.”
28 None of those reclining at the table knew why He told him this. 29 Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor. 30 After receiving the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

1. Shulchan: The eating of the main meal

Current practice:

• Main meal is eaten (no specific menu)
• In Moses’ day, roasted lamb was required
• A different roasted egg was eaten to begin the meal
• The roasted egg was known as the Chagigah and was offered at 9 AM on Passover day
• Since there is no temple the egg was offered in replacement of the lamb
• It is dipped in salt as the sacrifices were salted
• One should not eat or drink too much so they can enjoy the afikoman last.

Luke 22:20 - In the same way He also took the cup after supper and said,… [4]
 
 

1. Tzafun: The eating of the afikoman; Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper or Communion

Current practice: Tzafun means “the hidden”

• After the meal, the afikoman is returned and eaten as “desert”
• Each person receives the size of an olive
• Judas was not present at this point

Luke 22:19 - And He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”[5]

• Three compartment bag – Trinity
• Afikoman hidden (burial) and returned (resurrection)
• In conjunction with 3rd cup – Jesus rose on the 3rd day

 

1. Bareich: The grace said over the third cup

Current practice: Bareich is the “cup of redemption”

• To the unredeemed Jew the cup points to the future redemption and freedom of the Jews

Luke 22:20 - In the same way He also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant established by My blood; it is shed for you.”[6]

• Judas was not present

Luke 22:24-30 - Then a dispute also arose among them about who should be considered the greatest. 25 But He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles dominate them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘Benefactors.’  26 But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving. 27 For who is greater, the one at the table or the one serving? Isn’t it the one at the table? But I am among you as the One who serves. 28 You are the ones who stood by Me in My trials. 29 I bestow on you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one on Me, 30 so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.”[7]
 
John 13:31-35 - When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.  32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.
33 “Children, I am with you a little while longer.  You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.
34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

• This is based upon the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) that already resides in us.

 
Matthew 26:31-35 - Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will run away because of Me, for it is written:
I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.
32 But after I have been resurrected, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”
33 Peter told Him, “Even if everyone runs away because of You, I will never run away!”
34 “I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times!”
35 “Even if I have to die with You,” Peter told Him, “I will never deny You!” And all the disciples said the same thing.
 
Luke 22:35-36 - He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”
“Not a thing,” they said.
36 Then He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money-bag should take it, and also a traveling bag. And whoever doesn’t have a sword should sell his robe and buy one. 37 For I tell you, what is written must be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted among the outlaws.  Yes, what is written about Me is coming to its fulfillment.”
38 “Lord,” they said, “look, here are two swords.”
“Enough of that!”  He told them. [8]

• A sword to defend yourself but not during persecution.

 
John 14 - “Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.  4 You know the way to where I am going.”  5 “Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
        -We, the Church, is His one chosen bride
 
Jesus Reveals the Father
7 “If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
8 “Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father.  How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me?  The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.
 
Praying in Jesus’ Name
12 “I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.  13 Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
 
Another Counselor Promised
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commands.  16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. 17 He is the Spirit of truth.  The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
 
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
19 “In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me.  Because I live, you will live too. 20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you. 21 The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me.  And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father.  I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.  24 The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.
25 “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit —the Father will send  Him in My name—will teach you all things  and remind you of everything I have told you.
 
Jesus’ Gift of Peace
27 “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful.  28 You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.  29 I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe. 30 I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me. 31 On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.
“Get up; let’s leave this place.[9]

1. Hallel: The singing of the Psalms 113-118

Current practice:

• These Psalms sung over the 4th cup (cup of praise)

 

1. Nirtzah:

Current practice: Nirtzah means “accepted”

• Modern day addition
• Someone states that God is pleased with how the Seder was performed

 
Since 600 AD, scholarly Jews have debated whether there were 4 or 5 cups.

• A 5th cup was poured but never consumed
• They agreed to leave it that way until Elijah comes and settles the dispute.
• It is now named the Elijah cup.

The door is opened to accommodate his return

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Le 23:4–11). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Lk 22:17–19). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Mt 26:21–25). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Lk 22:20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Lk 22:19). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Lk 22:20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[7] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Lk 22:24–30). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[8] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Lk 22:35–38). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[9] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2009 (Jn 13:1–14:31). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.

Syria – Middle East issues

• Genesis 21:12-21
• Ishmael – Wikipedia
• Been going on for a long time.
• There is no end to this…
• The Bible is relevant for today.

 
What one great event will this generation in this room be remembered for?

• 9-11
• How thought out was it? The date was even significant.

 
For the Jews: the Passover was significant
 
This "order" is known as the “seder,”

• seder meaning "order.”
• All Jews use the same type of seder plate.
• A cup of salt water is positioned in the center of the plate.
• Reclining – Slaves had to stand or sit up straight to eat meals. So now they recline in freedom.

 
Things changed after the destruction of the temple in AD 70, for no longer could a lamb be slain for the Passover meal.

• The shank bone of a lamb is placed on the Seder plate as a memorial. The shank bone serving as a symbol of the lamb that can no longer be offered for the Passover meal.
• Roasted chicken is usually eaten today in place of the lamb during the main meal.

 

1. The Kaddeish: The first cup of wine:

1. The Cup of Blessing, or, The Cup of Sanctification
Current practice: Kaddeish means "sanctification,"

• Lighting of two candles soon after nightfall
• Special blessing is pronounced over the feast day
• blessing over the first cup of wine
• No wine allowed between the first & second cups.

 
2. The Urchatz: The washing of the hands
Current practice: urchatz means "and wash,"

• Fingers dipped into water

 
3. Carpas: The eating of the green vegetable
Current practice:

• Parsley is similar to hyssop
• Hyssop being used to apply blood over doorpost.
• Dipped in salt water – tears drip off
• God parted salt waters of Red Sea

 
4. Yachatz: The breaking of the middle Matzah
Current practice: Yachatz means “to divide”

• Plate holding 3 loaves of unleavened bread
• Loaves are wrapped together
• Middle loaf is removed and broken in half
• One half is returned
• The other half, “Afikoman”, is wrapped in linen and hidden for later (for use with the 3rd cup)
• Yachatz is not addressed in Gospels

 
5. Maggid: The Passover Story
Current practice: Maggid means “telling the story”

• The actual Passover story is told (Mishnah)
• From Abraham to Jacob
• From the enslavement in Egypt to the liberation of the Jews
• 2nd cup is poured out (10 drops=10 plagues)
• Hallel is read (Psalm 113 & 114)

 
 6. Rachtzah: Washing of the hands
Current practice: Rachtzah means “washing”

• Dipping of fingers into water

 
7. Motzi: The blessing of He who brings forth bread from the earth
Current practice: Motzi means “the bringing forth”

• Blessing on the bread eaten before the main meal
• “Blessed are You, O Lord our god, ruler of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.”

​
8. Matzah: The eating of a small piece of the middle matzah and the upper matzah
Current practice:

• Each participant eats a small piece of the middle and upper matzahs.
• They all recite “Blessed are You, O Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who commanded us concerning the eating of the Matzah.”
• Points to the swiftness with which the Jews departed from Egypt.

 
9. Maror: Bitter herbs
Current practice: Maror means “bitter herbs”

• Blessing over a bitter herb
• Bitter herb is dipped in charoset
• Brings tears to the eyes in remembrance of tears shed in Egypt and loss of sons in Nile.
• Eaten with matzah

 
10. Coreich: The sandwich
Current practice: Coreich means “combining”

• 2 pieces from bottom matzah with charoset on one piece and maror on the other
• Eaten as a sandwich
• Charoset & maror replaced the lamb
• Eaten with no blessing

 
11. Shulchan: The eating of the main meal
Current practice:

• Main meal is eaten (no specific menu)
• In Moses’ day, roasted lamb was required
• A different roasted egg was eaten to begin the meal
• The roasted egg was known as the Chagigah and was offered at 9 AM on Passover day
• Since there is no temple the egg was offered in replacement of the lamb
• It is dipped in salt as the sacrifices were salted
• One should not eat or drink too much so they can enjoy the afikoman last.

 
12. Tzafun: The eating of the afikoman; Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper or Communion
Current practice: Tzafun means “the hidden”

• After the meal, the afikoman is returned and eaten as “desert”
• Each person receives the size of an olive
• Judas was not present at this point
• Three compartment bag – Trinity
• Afikoman hidden (burial) and returned (resurrection)

 
13. Bareich: The grace said over the third cup
Current practice: Bareich is the “cup of redemption”

• To the unredeemed Jew the cup points to the future redemption and freedom of the Jews

 
14. Hallel: The singing of the Psalms 113-118
Current practice:

• These Psalms sung over the 4th cup (cup of praise)

 
15. Nirtzah:
Current practice: Nirtzah means “accepted”

• Modern day addition
• Someone states that God is pleased with how the Seder was performed

 
Since 600 AD, scholarly Jews have debated whether there were 4 or 5 cups.

• A 5th cup was poured but never consumed
• They agreed to leave it that way until Elijah comes and settles the dispute.
• It is now named the Elijah cup.
• The door is opened to accommodate his return.

 
For the Christians: the timing of the sacrifice was important.

• The sacrificial animal, which was either a lamb or goat, was necessarily a male, one year old, and without blemish. Each family or society offered one animal together, which did not require the "semikah" (laying on of hands), although it was obligatory to determine who were to take part in the sacrifice that the killing might take place with the proper intentions.
• The sacrificial service took place in the courtyard of the Temple at Jerusalem. Strictly speaking, slaughtering could be performed by a layman, but in practice was performed by priests. The blood had to be collected by a priest, and rows of priests with gold or silver cups in their hands stood in line from the Temple court to the altar, where the blood was sprinkled. These cups were rounded on the bottom, so that they could not be set down; for in that case the blood might coagulate. The priest who caught the blood as it dropped from the animal then handed the cup to the priest next to him, receiving from him an empty one, and the full cup was passed along the line until it reached the last priest, who sprinkled its contents on the altar. The lamb was then hung upon special hooks or sticks and skinned; but if the eve of the Passover fell on a Sabbath, the skin was removed down to the breast only. The abdomen was then cut open, and the fatty portions intended for the altar were taken out, placed in a vessel, salted, and offered by the priest on the altar, while the remaining entrails likewise were taken out and cleansed.
• Only those who were circumcised and clean before the Law might participate, and they were forbidden to have leavened food in their possession during the act of killing the paschal lamb. The animal was slain on the eve of the Passover, on the afternoon of the 14th of Nisan,[2] after the Tamid sacrifice had been killed, i.e., at three o'clock, or, in case the eve of the Passover fell on Friday, at two.[3]
• In 2016 Jewish activists pushing for a third temple in Jerusalem attempted to ascend the Temple Mount carrying baby goats intended to be used as Passover sacrifices on Friday afternoon, as they do every year. Jerusalem police detained ten suspects in the Old City for interrogation, and seized four sacrificial goat kids.

 
The Lord’s Supper -
 
John 14:27-31 - 27 “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful. 28 You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe. 30 I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me. w31 On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.
Get up; let’s leave this place.” [1]

[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Jn 14:27–31). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.