The 8th day of the first lunar month of Scripture (Abib) is the beginning of the passion week, as we see it begun in Scripture.
Why?
Because Scripture lays forth the dates and times of particular occurrences to be remembered, today according to the naturalist lunar week this is where we are:
(8th day of the month is the Sabbath
or 7th day of the lunar week)
Joh 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Joh 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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Joh 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Joh 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
So, in the Quartodeciman calculation of calendar events this happened today, it was a Sabbath meal being shared in the house of Lazarus as the week of purification was at hand in preparation for the feast of Passover and Unleavened bread.
(9th day of the month / first day of the lunar week)
We then by this time marker we also can calculate that the Next day was ‘the morrow after the (first) Sabbath (of Abib) (Lev_23:11 , Deut 16:9-10) .
(10th day of the month / 2nd day of the lunar week)
and the very next Day was the Day of Lamb Selection for the Passover:
Exo 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house…
So it is that in the 9th and 10th day of the month the triumphant entry began to play out.
Joh 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Joh 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Joh 12:14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
Joh 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.
Joh 12:16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
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Jesus on the early evening of the 9th day is both selected and cut to be the wave sheaf of first fruits and as well selected by the priests to be the Passover Lamb, planned to be slaughtered on the day of Passover:
Joh 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Joh 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Joh 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
(12th day of the month / 4th day of the lunar week)
We see that 2 days (12th day of the month) before the Passover (14th day of the month), further plans are made to Kill the Lord as they plan the event to dance with Passover’s sacred events:
Mat 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Mat 26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Mat 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
Mat_26:2-5; Mar_14:1-2; Luk_22:1-2
(end of 13th / beginning of 14th day of the month / 5th and 6th day of the lunar week)
In the Calendar of events, we also see that the Lord, on the day before Passover (13th Day) has His disciples prepare the upper room for the time we call the Last supper:
Joh 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Yet this can be confused, by the synoptic Gospels that say something like:
Mat 26:17 And on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, Where do You desire that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?
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Mat 26:20 And when evening had come, He sat down with the Twelve.
Importantly, this was not the passover ‘supper’ but was a meal eaten ‘before passover’, and since the eating took place ‘at night’ or ‘after evening’.
The word ‘before’ that occurs in John is “πρό / pro” While the word translated ‘first’ in the synoptics is ‘πρῶτος /
prōtos’ which could mean first, not in the numeral, but in the ‘start’ of a thing, but just as well implies ‘be-fore’, as John indicates and the calendar of Moses as given by God requires- that all this happen ‘before’ the Passover (14th day of the month) or before the feast of unleavened bread (15th day of the month).
Why would Jesus sit down with his disciples of the evening before the Day of Passover and eat the Last supper after evening just as the 14th day began?
Let Jesus tell us why…
Luk 22:14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
Luk 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
Luk 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Jesus had a ‘date with destiny’ he himself knew, he knew that while he humanly desired to eat the Passover in 23 or so hours , he rather would have to suffer and be the Passover Lamb, and at this time the next day he would be in the tomb awaiting resurrection.
But what day did the Lord partake of the Lord’s supper?
On the 14th day on the day he suffered, just hours before.
Since night is attributed to the next day after evening, both the Lord’s Last supper with the disciples and his crucifixion and the Passover all happed on the 14th day of the month / 6th day of the lunar week.
Prepare your heart mind and soul for communion with our LORD Jesus Christ,
as He comes to sup with you at His table!
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