Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
Passover
Before
To purify
Bible References
Passover
John 2:13
And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:1
After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 6:4
but the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.
Exodus 12:11
And thus shall ye eat it: your loins shall be girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover.
Before
John 7:8
Ye, go ye up to this feast. I go not up to this feast, for my time is not yet fulfilled.
John 12:1
Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead man Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among the dead.
Ezra 3:1
And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 8:1
all the people gathered together as one man to the open place that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded Israel.
To purify
John 2:6
Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
Exodus 19:10
And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and hallow them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes;
Numbers 9:6
And there were men, who were unclean through the dead body of a man, and could not hold the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
1 Samuel 16:5
And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah. Hallow yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he hallowed Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
2 Chronicles 30:17
For there were many in the congregation that were not hallowed; therefore the Levites had the charge of the slaughtering of the passover-lambs for every one not clean, to hallow them unto Jehovah.
Job 1:5
And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,
Acts 24:18
Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.