Nisan 13 – Last Seder Preparations

April 21, 2024

Nisan 13, 5784; from sunset April 20, 2024, to sunset April 21, 2024

This is the name “Yeshua” (יֵשׁוּעַ – Jesus) as seen on the James Ossuary. Yeshua comes from the verb “yasha” meaning “to save or deliver.” Yeshua means “Salvation.”

Just as Esther began preparations for her feast with the king and Haman today; Yeshua instructed His disciples to prepare for their Feast of Unleavened Bread. Their last Passover Seder together would become known to us as the Last Supper.

Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”

And He sent two of His disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him; and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; and prepare for us there.” And the disciples went out, and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover. – Mark 14:12-16

Read also Matthew 26:17-19 and Luke 22:7-13.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke seem to place the preparations for the Passover Seder on Nisan 14, the day prescribed to kill the Passover lamb. Whereas, John, seems to place it on Nisan 13. The pattern commanded by our Father is that the lamb must be killed on the 14th day of the 1st month. With this in mind, and since Jesus is our Passover Lamb, we’ll be placing the preparations made by the disciples on the 13th. Next, we’ll put their early Passover Seder on the 14th, just after sunset. And, finally, we’ll mark Jesus’ death on the afternoon of the 14th – the same time the Passover lambs were to be sacrificed. As a reminder, the biblical day begins and ends at the setting of the sun.

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