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Chapter study
John 15 is spoken in motion. Jesus has just finished the Passover meal with His disciples, and John 14 ends with the words 'arise, let us go hence.' Many readers take that sentence as the close of a scene rather than as…
Devotional
…with friends. I receive that covenant now, and thank You for it. Amen. The Passover setting matters: Jesus reinterprets an existing covenant meal, one that already commemorated deliverance by blood on the doorposts in…
Chapter study
…and Scripture keeps reaching for it: a lamb for each household at Passover, a lamb led silently to slaughter in Isaiah 53, and finally a man identified as the Lamb of God in John 1:29. This is foreshadowing of the…
Dig Deeper
…by a ram. The lamb Abraham promised is not on the mountain that day. Passover will bring a lamb, Israel's morning and evening offering will bring a lamb, Isaiah will describe a man brought as a lamb to the slaughter,…
Verse study
…picks that word back up again and again. A lamb for each household at Passover in Exodus 12. A lamb led silently to the slaughter in Isaiah 53:7. Then John the Baptist, standing in the same country, says behold the Lamb…
Devotional
…This is the pattern the Bible teaches its people again and again. Passover, the stones at the Jordan in Joshua 4, the Lord's Supper. God gives His people memorials because faith that forgets what He has done shrinks to…
Devotional
…were offered on a specific day, the day after the Sabbath following Passover, which lands precisely on the timing of Christ's own resurrection on the first day of the week after Passover. The Old Testament festival…
Devotional
…at Pentecost, a Jewish feast already on the calendar, fifty days after Passover. The timing of the promise's fulfillment was tied to an appointed festival, not to how ready the disciples felt. Luke 24:49 Stay in the…
Biblical concept
…of the flesh. Luke 22:15 Jesus says he desired earnestly to eat this Passover, so the word itself is not negative. All strong desire is sinful. Luke 22:15 uses the same word family of Jesus, and Psalm 37:4 speaks of God…
Biblical concept
…spoken on the very mountain later linked to Jerusalem. Exodus 12:13 The Passover lamb's blood is the sign that turns aside death, the pattern Paul later applies directly to Christ. Isaiah 53:7 Describes a man led like a…
Biblical concept
…12:1-13 God gives Moses and Aaron the instructions for the very first Passover on the night before the exodus itself, before it becomes an annual feast, when the blood on the doorframes protects Israel's households from…
Biblical concept
…altar, and the ram provided in Isaac's place (Genesis 22:13). Exodus The Passover lamb, where blood on the doorposts is the difference between death and life (Exodus 12:13). Leviticus The offerings are ordered and…
Bible question
…hill because Christ would one day walk up it. Israel on the night of Passover Exodus 12:12-13 Every household in Egypt was under the same judgment, and no family was safer than another by nature. God provided a lamb and…
The Sunday Study
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