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| SACRIFICIAL LAMB� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 16:32; I KINGS 1:34 - The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement....Have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel.� Blow the trumpet and shout, 'Long life King Solomon!' | ||||||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:8; EXODUS 12:3, 6 - The Day of Unleavened Bread came, the day the Passover lamb was butchered [the day before Passover].� Jesus sent Peter and John off, saying, "Go prepare the Passover for us so we can eat it together"...."On the tenth day of this month [Nisan] each man is to take a lamb....the fourteenth day of the month...slaughter them at twilight [when 13th ends and 14th begins]. | ||||||||||||||
| [3]������ LUKE 22:24 - Within minutes they were bickering over who of them would end up the greatest.� But Jesus intervened. | ||||||||||||||
| [4]������ SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Unlikely Crew" | ||||||||||||||
| [5]������ LUKE 22:25-27 - "Kings like to throw their weight around and people in authority like to give themselves fancy titles.� It's not going to be that way with you.� Let the senior among you become like the junior; let the leader act the part of the servant.� Who would you rather be: the one who eats the dinner or the one who serves the dinner?� You'd rather eat and be served, right?� But I've taken my place among you as the one who serves." | ||||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:27-30 - And you've stuck with me through thick and thin.� Now I confer on you the royal authority my Father conferred on me so you can eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and be strengthened as you take up responsibilities among the congregations of God's people. | ||||||||||||||
| [7]������ The Passover Feast was not to be held until the next day [Nisan 14].� The Jews who arrested Jesus and took him to the Romans the next morning "wanted to be able to eat the Passover" [John 18:28] which was due to be eaten the night of Jesus' crucifixion [Thursday]. | ||||||||||||||
| [8]������ MERRILL F. UNGER, UNGER'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, "FESTIVALS-PASSOVER AND FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: PASCHAL SUPPER" - The paschal supper commenced by the head of the 'company' pronouncing a benediction over the first cup of wine, which had been filled for each person.� It was then drunk. | ||||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:29 - The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." | ||||||||||||||
| [10]����� UNGER'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, "FESTIVALS-PASSOVER AND FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD:� PASCHAL SUPPER" - [The wine] was then drunk, and a basin of water and a towel were handed round or the guests got up to wash their hands. | ||||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:1-2 - Just before the Passover Feast [13th of Nisan], Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to the Father.� Having loved his dear companions, he continued to love them right to the end.� It was supper time.� The Devil by now had Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, firmly in his grip, all set for the betrayal. | ||||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:15-16 - "You've no idea how much I have looked forward to eating this Passover meal with you before I enter my time of suffering.� It's the last one I'll eat until we all eat it together in the kingdom of God." | ||||||||||||||
| [13]����� SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Whirlwind" | ||||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:4-5 - So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron.� Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. | ||||||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:10b-12a - "So now you're clean.� But not ever one of you."� (He knew who was betraying him.� That's why he said, "Not every one of you.")� After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table. | ||||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:12b-17 - Then he said, "Do you understand what I have done to you?� You address me as 'Teacher' and 'Master,' and rightly so.� That is what I am.� So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet.� I've laid down a pattern for you.� What I've done, you do.� I'm only pointing out the obvious.� A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer.� If you understand what I'm telling you, act like it ~ and live a blessed life." | ||||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, EXODUS 1:14; EXODUS 12:8 - They made their lives bitter with hard labor...the Egyptians used them ruthlessly....That same night they are to eat the....bitter herbs. | ||||||||||||||
| [18]����� RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, CODE OF JEWISH LAW, VOL. II, Ch. 119, pg. 48 - After that the person conducting the ceremony should wash his hands without saying the benediction, dry them, and cut the karpas for himself and the members of his household.� Each dips his portion in salt water and says the benediction. | ||||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:18b - Jesus said, "I have something hard but important to say to you:� One of you is going to hand me over to the conspirators, one who at this moment is eating with me." | ||||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:21-25 - After he said these things, Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why.� "One of you is going to betray me."� The disciples looked around at one another, wondering who on earth he was talking about.� One of the disciples, the one Jesus loved dearly, was reclining against him, his head on his shoulder [a normal position when everyone reclined on one elbow on a couch to eat].� Peter motioned to him to ask who Jesus might be talking about.� So, being the closest, he said, "Master, who?" | ||||||||||||||
| [21]����� RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, CODE OF JEWISH LAW, VOL. II, p. 51 - After that he takes two pieces of the lower matzah about the size of an olive,and places between them bitter herbs about the size of an olive which should be dipped in the haroset and then shaken off. | ||||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 13:55b - "We know his brothers James and Joseph, Simon and Judas." | ||||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, PSALM 41:9 [Predicted 1000 years before Jesus' birth] - Even my best friend has turned against me - a man I completely trusted; how often we ate together. | ||||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:20-21 - He said, "It's one of the Twelve, one who eats with me out of the same bowl.� In one sense, it turns out that the Son of Man is entering into a way of treachery well-marked by the Scriptures ~ no surprise here.� In another sense, the man who turns him in, turns traitor to the Son of Man ~ better never to have been born than do this." | ||||||||||||||
| [25]����� MERRILL F. UNGER, UNGER'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, "FESTIVALS-PASSOVER AND FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: PASCHAL SUPPER" - The second cup of wine was then drunk, and hands were washed a second time, with the same prayer as before, and one of the two unleavened cakes broken and "thanks given."� Pieces of the broken cake, with "bitter herbs" between them, and "dipped"...were next handed to each of the company. | ||||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:26-27a - Jesus said, "The one to whom I give this crust of bread after I've dipped it."� Then he dipped the crust and gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot.� As soon as the bread was in his hand, Satan entered him. | ||||||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:27b-30 - "What you must do," said Jesus, "do.� Do it and get it over with."� No one around the supper table knew why he said this to him.� Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the Feast [Nisan 14-Thursday], or that he should give something to the poor.� Judas, with the piece of bread, left.� It was night. | ||||||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:31-32 - When he had left, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is seen for who he is, and God seen for who he is in him.� The moment God is seen him, God's glory will be on display.� In glorifying him, he himself is glorified ~ glory all around!" | ||||||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, John 13:33 - "Children, I am with you for only a short time longer.� You are going to look high and low for me.� But just as I told the Jews, I'm telling you: 'Where I go, you are not able to come.' " | ||||||||||||||
| [30]����� MERRILL F. UNGER, UNGER'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, "FESTIVALS-PASSOVER AND FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: PASCHAL SUPPER" - The second cup of wine was filled....The head of the house related the whole national history, commencing with Terah, Abraham's father, Israel's deliverance from Egypt, the giving of the law; and the more fully he explained it all the better. | ||||||||||||||
| [31]����� SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Unlikely Crew" | ||||||||||||||
| [32]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:34-35 - "Let me give you a new command:� Love one another.� In the same way I loved you, you love one another.� This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples ~ when they see the love you have for each other." | ||||||||||||||
| [33]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:28 - [The next day after arresting Jesus] Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor.� By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness, the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. | ||||||||||||||
| [34]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:36-38 - Simon Peter asked, "Master, just where are you going?" Jesus answered, "You can't now follow me where I'm going.� You will follow later."� "Master," said Peter, "why can't I follow now?� I'll lay down my life for you!"� "Really?� You'll lay down your life for me?� The truth is that before the rooster crows, you'll deny me three times." | ||||||||||||||
| [35]����� THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 16:2-3; EXODUS 12:26-27 - Your Passover sacrifice shall be either a lamb....Eat the sacrifice with unleavened bread....This is to remind you that you left Egypt in such a hurry that there was no time for the bread to rise.� Remember that day all the rest of your lives....and your children ask, "What does all this mean?� What is this ceremony about?" you will reply, "It is the celebration of Jehovah's passing over us...he passed over our houses and did not come in to destroy us." | ||||||||||||||
| [36]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 54:11-12 - O my afflicted people, tempest-tossed and troubled, I will rebuild you on a foundation of sapphires and make the walls of your houses from precious jewels.� I will make your towers of sparkling agate, and your gates and walls of shining gems. | ||||||||||||||
| [37]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:1-3 - "Don't let this throw you.� You trust God, don't you?� Trust me.� There is plenty of room for you in my Father's home.� If that weren't so, would I have told you that I'm on my way to get a room ready for you?� And if I'm on my way to get your room ready, I'll come back and get you so you can live where I live.� And you already know the road I'm taking." | ||||||||||||||
| [38]����� THE BIBLE, PSALM 107:7; 119:32; ISAIAH 35:8 - He led them by a straight way, to a city where they could settle....I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free....A highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. | ||||||||||||||
| [39]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:5-9; COLOSIANS 2:9 [NIV] - Thomas said, "Master, we have no idea where you're going.� How do you expect us to know the road?"� Jesus said, "I am the Road....No one gets to the Father apart from me...."Philip said, ";Master, show us the Father, then we'll be content."� "You've been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don't understand?� To see me is to see the Father"....For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. | ||||||||||||||
| [40]����� MERRILL F. UNGER, UNGER'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, "FESTIVALS-PASSOVER AND FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: PASCHAL SUPPER" - Since the cessation of the paschal sacrifice [after the Temple was destroyed a few years later] the Jews conclude the supper with a piece of unleavened cake....the third cup was filled. | ||||||||||||||
| [41]����� I CORINTHIANS 5:7 - The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. | ||||||||||||||
| [42]����� RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, VOL. II, pg. 50 - At the conclusion of the feast, the half-matzah put away by the seat of the one conducting the ceremony) is eaten in remembrance of the paschal lamb that was eaten at the end of the meal. | ||||||||||||||
| [43]����� HEBREWS 10:4-5, 10 [NIV] - Because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.� Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said..."a body you prepared for me"....We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. | ||||||||||||||
| [44]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:26 - During the meal, Jesus took and blessed the bread, broke it, and gave it to his disciples:� "Take, eat.� This is my body." | ||||||||||||||
| [45]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 6:52-53 - "How can this man serve up his flesh for a meal?"� But Jesus didn't give an inch.� "Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you...." | ||||||||||||||
| [46]����� THE BIBLE, 1 CORINTHIANS 11:24 - The Master, Jesus, on the night of his betrayal, took bread.� Having given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, broken for you.� Do this to remember me." | ||||||||||||||
| [47]����� RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, CODE OF JEWISH LAW, VOL. II, pp. 50-51 - After eating the afikoman, one is forbidden to eat any kind of food.� The third cup for the Grace is then filled....It is customary that the master of the house should lead in saying Grace.� After the Grace, a benediction is said over the third cup of wine. | ||||||||||||||
| [48]����� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 6:23; 3:23-25 - Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death....Since we've compiled this long and sorry record as sinners and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us....God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear the world of sin. | ||||||||||||||
| [49]����� THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 17:10-11 - I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.� For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. | ||||||||||||||
| [50]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:27-28; 1 CORINTHIANS 11:25 - Taking the cup and thanking God, he gave it to them:� "Drink this, all of you.� This is my blood.� God's new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sin".....After supper, he did the same thing with the cup:� "This cup is my blood, my new covenant with you.� Each time you drink this cup, remember me." | ||||||||||||||
| [51]����� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 12:10 [PREDICTED 500 YEARS BEFORE JESUS BORN] - Then I will pour out the spirit of grace and prayer on all the people of Jerusalem, and they will look on him they pierced, and mourn for him as for an only son, and grieve bitterly for him as for an oldest child who died. | ||||||||||||||
| [52]����� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 13:1; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:36, 43 - At that time a Fountain will be opened to the people of Israel and Jerusalem, a Fountain to cleanse them from all their sins and defilement....You plant a "dead" seed; soon there is a flourishing plant....The corpse that's planted is no beauty, but when it's raised, it's glorious. �Put in the ground weak, it comes up powerful. | ||||||||||||||
| [53]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 9:15-17 - Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice....Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus' death.� His death marked the transition from the old plan [Old Testament] to the new one [New Testament]. | ||||||||||||||
| [54]����� RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, CODE OF JEWISH LAW, VOL. II, pg. 51 - The cup is filled for the fourth time.� The door is opened according to custom to signify that this is a night of vigil and nothing is to be feared.� Because of this belief, our righteous Messiah will come. | ||||||||||||||
| [55]����� HAYYIM SCHAUSS, GUIDE TO JEWISH HOLY DAYS, pg. 55 - And when he starts to sing Hallel, they all join in loudly. | ||||||||||||||
| [56]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:30a - They sang a hymn. | ||||||||||||||
| [57]����� THE BIBLE, ACTS 20:7a - We met on Sunday to worship and celebrate the Master's Supper. | ||||||||||||||