WebJesus celebrated the Last Supper during Easter Jewish, that is, on the 14th of Nisan, she died on the cross on the 15th of Nisan and was resurrected the following Sunday, on the 17th of Nisan.

So it is crystal clear that they bought spices after the next day high Sabbath!!! Most likely, it was!, [] Last Supper is historys most famous meal.

I think it honest, non proselytizing, sharing of a very complicated subject.

Edersheim I think had the proper understanding of this seeming contradiction. A useful version of the traditional text of the Haggadah, with introduction and translation, can be found in the widely available edition of Nahum N. Glatzer, The Passover Haggadah (New York: Schocken Books, 1981). Easter, Latin Pascha, Greek Pascha, principal festival of the Christian church, which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. Psa. Such truths are worthy of contemplation and discussion throughout the year.

These three Passovers occur in the three years of Jesus' earthly ministry.

The disciple whom Jesus loved comforts Jesus mother at left.

116:7 Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. Why Did Judas Identify Jesus with a Kiss?

Leavened was sin. What we have, rather, is one testimony (probably Mark), which was then copied twice (by Matthew and Luke). However, some experts, like David Flusser and his contemporaries, do a fine job of sorting through the ancient authorities, and use pieces of them to make sense out of the NT traditions. In ancient times it may have been done once all reclined at table and after the first cup of wine was poured. From Seder to Holy Communion

24:1; Jn. The first Passover mentioned in John is when John the Baptist is baptized. The discussion of the Seder change often mentions Jesus last meal was on Thursday. Would they not have been horrified at the very idea, even metaphorical, of consuming a persons blood? But not to worry, as you do so much, how many are really out there looking for that which you are so desperately trying to obscure? Passover begins with the 15th and ends with the 21st (or, outside of Israel and among Reform Jews, the 22nd) day of the month of Nisan (March or April).

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This meal was held on Wednesday night, the day before the lamb was slain in the temple.

He is the author of Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism (Oxford Univ.

Now I am not well versed in Greek but a brief look shows that this Greek word is not a aorist tense and is sometimes translated as coming which would be an interesting change to the timing aspect of this passage. The important thing is that all devout Jews celebrated a Passover dinner that was more elaborate than a daily meal (like our own holiday gatherings) at home with the family, and the Apostles and other close associates were His family. Psa.

Psa. First, if the Last Supper had been a Seder held on the first night of Passover, then that would mean Jesus trial and crucifixion took place during the week-long holiday.

If the priests worked 24 hours without stopping, they would have to sacrifice and prepare 87 lambs per minute to get to this number.

Most comments above are ridiculous. Psa.

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Amein. Goldschmidt, The Passover Haggadah: Its Sources and History (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1960). Killing the Passover lamb was customary on the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

Said the author of the aforementioned Time magazine essay: There is something deeply soothing about participating in ancient rituals practiced by so many. Like a number of Catholics today, this author prefers that the ceremony be performed in Latin as it was in the past. The Passover had and has absolutely nothing to do with leaving Egypt.

+ Jesus transforms leaven to growth of Kingdom: Mt.

[40] Traditionally, entering the city on a donkey symbolizes arrival in peace, rather than as a war-waging king arriving on a horse. + Time keeping in the Synoptics vs. John of California Press, 1984).

216218. Mark says AFTER the Sabbath, the ladies went to the market, bought spices and prepared it ready for use.

and john added in verse 29: Goldschmidt, Tabory and Yuval go even one step further, suggesting that Jeremias had it backwards.

Luke 2:41 mentions that in his childhood he went to Jerusalem every year for the Passover.

Then the father recites the third verb from Exodus 6:6: I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments..

One on the evening of Nisan 14th, and the other on the 15th. + Luke does not mention Jonah with the specifics of 3 days & nights (Lk.

Thats for sure. The verse that makes it impossible is John 18:28. But we cannot know for sure.

Only the one they knew as the Son of God, Lord, Messiah Christ, could have the authority to change Gods Torah Law.

And if they have lost familiarity with that, they have probably lost familiarity with reliable historical information as well. Remember: An argument from silence is no argument. The Christ could not have eaten the Passover Seder because he was the Passover Seder.

the first was in the morning, the second at even. John mentions the first in John 2, the second Passover in 6:4 and the third one in 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28, 39; and 19:14. When you go to search into Biblical History FIRST you need an ACCURATE Bible Translation from the Original Hebrew, and Greek Scriptures. We know they were talking to the Sethians and other forms of Platonic Paganism that made it into the Church it was not always demonizing the Jews as you would have us think the evidence that James or even the book of Hebrews was cannonized shows how wrong you are! 3. The best understanding is that Clopas was Marys husband Josephs brother. 14:1-2; Lk. Exodus 28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. So spices acctivity cannot be on the crucifixion day. 26:12; Mk:14:8] [Jn.

I have known for quite some time that the, Biblical Archaeological Review, was a very liberal magazine but if I had any doubts about that, you have removed them all.

All of that could have been done in seconds.

Those who translated seem to assume it was a Passover meal though it was not.

Every year, Jews celebrate the Feast of Passover to commemorate the liberation of the Children of Israel, as commanded by God in Exodus 13. 1.

Now a days, however,historians are concluding that the meal Jesus had most likely was not a Passover Seeder, like the ones Jewish []. Jews observe the weeklong festival with a number of important rituals, including a traditional Passover meal known as a seder, the removal of leavened products from their home, the substitution of matzo for bread and the retelling of the exodus tale. 116:9 that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living. By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. I have not read of the view that faithful Jewish people would take of such a view.

We do what they did. On Jesus case, God used him as his Anointed One by sending him to earth, as his instrument of saving ,leading, and mediator of Gods New Covenant for his believing people of the whole earth,( no longer exclusively fleshly Israelites, but a SPIRITUAL ISRAEL of God which is INCLUSIVES of ALL sorts of BELIEVING MAKIND of the whole world).There is PARALLELISM between Moses and Jesus.

Even so, Johns claim that Jesus was killed just before Passover began is more plausible than the synoptics claim that Jesus was killed on Passover. The Essenes used a different method to calculate Passover.

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It will help to resolve contradictions both in NT writers and in the interpreting it today. a.

Jesus and his disciples were celebrating the Passover meal together.

i then can understand that indeed jesus was observing the passover day with a meal which was to be his last before he becomes the passover sacrifice some 21 hours later. Christ arises from the tomb at daybreak on Nisan 16 / Sunday, the Christian SABBATH the FIRST DAY of the Week [ the 8th DAY]. Your email address will not be published. For the first time we see Jews and Christians coming together in Biblical Truth.

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After all, if the last supper was the eating of the Passover which is always sacrificed towards the end of the 14th day, then the high holy Sabbath of the 15th day Passover would have (of course) been the following day.

Unfortunately for the contemporary historian, there were two rabbis named Gamaliel, both of whom bore the title rabban (which means our master and was usually applied to the head of the rabbinic academy). Conclusion: Traditional Holy Week still viable:

Jesus shed blood will provide the basis for mankinds deliverance from sin and death.Heb.

Jesus arrives in Jerusalem with his disciples

15:42-43; Lk.

22:11 where may I eat the Passover?

Keep doing this in remembrance of me. He did likewise with a cup of red wine, telling them: This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf.Luke 22:19, 20. To get three and a half years with the final point being the Passover, there had to be a total of four Passovers mentioned. That could be considered to be under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Since all mankind was now released from the sin of Adam, if they so chose, all would commemorate the emblems of the wine and bread on the evening that began the 14th. It is almost as if the synoptic tradition has lost all familiarity with contemporary Jewish practice. Jesus commissioned a passover feast ( Mark 14:12-16), he concluded this feast and any further feasts that week with (Mark 14:25) Verily I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. Jesus was crucified on the 14th day, therefore the previous night could not possibly have been the eating of the Passover, so there was no legal requirement for unleavened bread at this meal. the preparation of the jewish passover, very simple: As explained above that Zaducean passover was also called the Jerusalem Passover, that after the fall of walls at 70 CE (Christian Era), there was no esteem toward the zaduceans, so there was no mention to their passovers, people referred to that PASSOVER (Johns gospel was written some 70/90 years after Jesus death) so mentions to that Passover the year 27/28 CE, didnot say Zaduceans, rather stated Jewish Passover.

The ball is in the court of scholars to either confirm his conclusions or demonstrate why they are wrong. First of all, this article hits upon a lot of excellent historical points, including how the observance of Passover evolved due to the national observances of Passover in the time of Hezekiah and Josiah.

Can anything less be expected from four divinely inspired texts reporting historic events?

The change to the temple was one of the traditions Jesus scolded the religious leaders over placing above the scripture. of Notre Dame Press, 1999). Lazarus, Mary, Martha and their families, Jesus mother Mary, Clopas and his wife Mary, Matthias and Joseph Barsabba, Mary Magdalene. Press, 2000), which received the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies. Psa.

A day start has since been corrupted by the Jews. It is interesting that the Gods word translation does NOT translate this passage the same indicating how rare the Mark 14:12 translation is and also makes me wonder about the consistency of the Gods word translation.

First, the testimony of Josephus on the killing of James, the brother of Jesus:

Friday during the day you can go shopping to buy the incence and then prepare them at home, but you wouldnt have time to go to the cemetery to use it on the body because its almost sunset, the sabbath is about to begin. = Palm Sunday (& temple clearing)

Mark says AFTER the Sabbath, the ladies went to the market, bought spices and prepared it ready for use., Here is what Mark 16:1 KJV, really says: Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him..

The day before Passover, is also a Holiday on the Jewish Calendar.

The article states: To me, the worst thing to happen to Christianity over the last 2 millenia was Constantin. If you want to re-write the Bible you can make it say anything you want. The idea that the Last Supper was a Passover Seder is tantalizing, thoughhistorically debatable.

This weary, centuries-old debate was answered and resolved definitely by the exceedingly authoritative polyglot Talmudic scholar Alfred Edersheim in his classic work The Temple in the 1870s. This states unequivocally that it was the Day of Preparation wherein the Upper Room was obtained, and that the Paschal meat was consumed at the proper hour. Jesus, who was God walking the earth in the flesh, waited until the night of the Passover to make his new covenant. by Jonathan Klawans (10/18/2012) http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/was-jes… [].

We should celebrate it tonight as Jesus disciples did, for only later did they realize the irony of this joyous occasion that pointed to the death of the Messiah. Jesus followers would have prepared nearly 30 lambs.

This however is only the beginning, for my book then challenges the so called Catholic and Protestant Communion ritual itself. [Nisan 14/15/and 16th. : To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys Jesus and destroys Christianity. by Anthony J. Saldarini as it originally appeared in Bible Review. Now in the Greek Matthew 26:17 is very close to Mark 14:12 and could be rendered the same in English.

On these seven days, the Israelites were to eat nothing with leaven in it, to symbolize the haste with which the Hebrews left Egypt.

The synoptic account stretches credulity, not just because it depicts something unlikely, but because it fails to recognize the unlikely and problematic nature of what it depicts. Psa. That is why it was chosen celebrate la Easter the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere.

118:5 In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and he answered by setting me free.

113:3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.

The author is trying to sell a book not live the life.

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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Jewsnow numbering in the hundreds of thousandsthen trek through the Sinai desert for 40 tumultuous years before finally reaching their ancestral home in Canaan, later known as the Land of Israel.

But his faithful disciples are to experience a far grander everlasting deliverance. The next day, their sinless Leader will be put to death by his enemies.

There is no conflict in the gospels over when Jesus died, just lack of insight into usage of the term passover during Jesus time, which was a term used broadly to apply to the entire festival, not just the Seder.

It dont get any plainer than that. When establishing the new covenant, Jesus told his disciples that the Passover bread was his spiritual flesh and the Passover wine was is spiritual blood for the forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life. Could you be so kind as to give a few authoritative sources to support your position that scripture is inerrant?

I realize some will demand the slaughter of innocence just as was done to make sure that Passover blood kept them safe; but I say to you Jesus brought a new time where Mercy was paramount, because we do not have in our GOD a vengeful or lust for sacrifice of the innocent, but of Mercy and good will to all man, do we not ? What can man do to me?

No Pastor has ever had a good explanation.

He is Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge.

Those involved are (1) Jehovah God, who arranged for the ransom, (2) Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who provided the ransom, and (3) Jesus spiritual brothers. - Mississippi Digital Magazine, Ought to Christians have seders? read the Exodus commands concerning the Passover. Repent and be delivered. Act in Harmony With Jesus Loving Prayer.

Lets just remember at the wonder of a God whose love is so powerful and so deep that he would die for us. Luke in chapter 22, tell us that Jesus sent Peter and John to prepare the Passover. Alan Corrie.

Davies and N.T. The programming is anything but holy, and rests upon the reality of an ancient evil carried by humans through superstition into the present. In his Gospel, John records three Passovers.

118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they died out as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

WebChristian Passover ceremonies are held on the evening corresponding to 14 Nisan or 15 Nisan, depending whether the particular church uses a quartodeciman or quintodeciman application.

12:6) with those who observed a Temple-centric observance, killing lambs in the afternoon portion of Nisan 14th, approaching Nisan 15th, his numbers include BOTH.

John mentions the first in John 2, the second Passover in 6:4 and the third one in 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28, 39; and 19:14. the use of at even here then means a time before the biblical day is over. Then the first cup of ritual wine is poured and the first verb of Exodus 6:6-7 is recited by the father: I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians., The wine may now be drunk.

And supper being come, the devil already having put [it] into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up, Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him into [his] hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth, doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself; afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded. (John 13:1-5, YLT).

Is it possible to identify the first-century man named Jesus behind the many stories and traditions about him that developed over 2,000 years in the Gospels and church teachings?

[] http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/was-jes Tintoretto, Last Supper, oil on canvas, Venice, Italy, 1594 Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading []. The text on this particular page from an illuminated Haggadah created by Zeev Raban (18901970) provides rabbinic commentary on a Biblical passage relating to Israels sojourn in Egypt.

It reminds us that Jesus was crucified during Passover, and that as a Jew he had come to Jerusalem to celebrate it.

[] Was Jesus last supper actually seder?

Yeshua also KNEW He was to die on the actual day.

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Commonly entitled On the Passover, the sermon survives in numerous copies and fragments in Coptic, Greek, Syriac, Latin and Georgian. 118:1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. There are those who attempt to harmonize John and the synoptics by supposing that they disagreed not about when the Last Supper occurred, but about whether the date of Passover was supposed to be calculated by following a solar calendar or a lunar one. The fact they exist does prove that there was a remembrance of the two day practice.

Jesus and his immediate disciples, the 12 apostles, were Jewish people who were under the Mosaic Law. Thank for the thought provoking words.

I think we seldom if ever get to know/understand the a truth of any given event, and your effort is a help (reading time well spent) in understanding a version of the truth that gets the reader farther down the path to understanding . John mentions the first in John 2, the second Passover in 6:4 and the third one in 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28, 39; and 19:14. i can understand how beneficial it is to do this as frequently as we observe the weekly sabbath, that symbol of the goal of eternal rest with and in our creator. The Passover was a festive occasiona celebration of the nations release from Egyptian bondage. Jesus was preparing for the evening beginning the 14th.

*** The Synoptics have Jesus having HIS Galilean Passover in Jerusalem, but John has this event before the Judean Passover.

Now Luke 22:7 does make a change and does seem to be addressing the temporal aspect of this passage.

Just because the Gospels do not mention them is no proof that all the rest were not there.

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Let me elaborate on this proposition by examining the Haggadahs requirement of explaining the Passover symbols: Rabban Gamaliel used to say: Whoever does not make mention of the following three things on Passover has not fulfilled his obligation: namely, the Passover sacrifice, unleavened bread (matzah) and bitter herbs.

Because the Egyptians made the lives of our ancestors bitter in Egypt.

Interesting that the words of Jesus, attributed to him in the canon Gospel texts, are taken to be generally accurate, but the actions attributed to him in those same texts are questioned with great skepticism.

15:4) In fact, the name synoptic refers to the fact that these three texts can be studied most effectively when seen together (as implied in the Greek etymology of synoptic). On all other nights we eat leavened or unleavened bread, but this night only unleavened bread.

Passoverization can even be found in the Middle Ages. https://rogerviklund.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/the-traditional-translation-and-interpretation-of-the-last-supper-betrayal-of-the-original-text/.

118:19 Open for me the gates of righteousness; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. Moses was used by God to saved the Israelites from EGYPTIAN SLAVERY out to the promised land,which was the land of the Canaanites.

this removes the seeming contradiction that might pose over exodus 12:22 (not to leave house before morning) and numbers 33:3 (god brought israelites out of egypt by night) as the first occurred early in the morning (before day break) of the 15th and the second in the late of the day of the 15th (even just before it ends and the 16th begins). 115:12 The LORD remembers us and will bless us: He will bless the house of Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron, Psa. 26:17 for you Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold

In Hebrew, Seder means order. The Last Supper was on Thursday nite / [Friday 13th begins at sunset].

The watershed of the destruction of the Second Temple gave rise to a large shifts in rabbinic practice.

The synoptic account stretches credulity, not just because it depicts something unlikely, but because it fails to recognize the unlikely and problematic nature of what it depicts.

It helps them to keep proclaiming the death of the Lord, until he arrives.1 Corinthians 11:26. according to interlinear concordance the word other h8145 hasseni in the construction found in numbers 28:3 predominantly translated as the second one.

Psa.

The teaching is the same either way.

116:8 For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, Psa.

But the Spirit of Christ wants us to accept challenges, to better our understanding.

I am supportive of the results of this article:

Roman Emperor Constantine abolished Gods new covenant Passover in 325 AD, but it was restored in 1948 when Jesus (God) walked the earth a second time.

He offers the most beautiful prayer that any human will ever be privileged to read. Early Christians interpreted Jesus life and death in light of the ancient Jewish narrative of redemption par excellence, the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Note again carefully! (it is the weekly Saturday sabbath that is mentioned in the 10 commandments!). Consequently, though the Last Supper followed the order of a Jewish Seder meal, the only lamb Who was present was the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, both in the flesh and in the Eucharist, His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.

At right, John the Baptist points to Jesus.

But that night is not always a Saturday night. So Luke gives us clues as to when the spices were bought and Mark tells us when those prepared spices were brought to the sepulchre.

It was custom, not law, that the lamb was sacrificed at the Temple. What then of Jeremiass long list of parallels?

Certainly it was much simpler than the scholars hundreds of years later. The book of Jubilees states specifically that the lamb is not to be killed during any part of the daylight.

118:26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. The FREE eBook Ancient Israel in Egypt and the Exodus considers texts and archaeological evidence from the second millennium B.C.E. Every space for miles around was packed tight, roofs, every bare patch of ground covered with campsites.

(Leuven [Louvain]: Peeters, 1999). The pharaoh changes his mind, however, and sends his soldiers to retrieve the former slaves. The synoptic gospels are thus accurate in this regard and present a view of 1st Century C.E. As time passed, the practice continued to evolve.

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