The combined feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread are the most important
of all the annual Jewish feasts. They commemorate God’s rescue of the
Hebrews from the “plague of the firstborn” during the time of Moses, where
God’s people were spared death by applying the blood of lambs upon the
doorframes of their homes. The feasts also remember the hasty release and
exodus of the Hebrews from their cruel treatment and enslavement by
Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

So that they would always remember his saving acts, God told the Jews to
commemorate this “divine rescue” from death and bondage through these two
feasts, which were to be celebrated every year—at the same time and in the
same way—without fail.

Jesus and his disciples had travelled to Jerusalem to commemorate Passover
before, but the one we read about in Mark 14:12-26 would be entirely
different. As Jesus told his disciples during this particular Seder meal,
it would become the occasion of his death by crucifixion, and the timing
was no mere coincidence.

By Keith Beebe

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