""This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it hurriedly it's the LORD's Passover.

Before

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Seven months after the Israelis had settled in their cities, they all gathered together in Jerusalem as a united body.

To purify

Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

The LORD told Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes,

But there were men who couldn't observe the Passover that day because they had come in contact with a corpse. That very day, they approached Moses and Aaron

He said, "Peace, I've come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." Samuel consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

Because there were so many in the assembly that had not consecrated themselves, therefore the descendants of Levi supervised the slaughter of the Passover sacrifices on behalf of everyone who remained unclean, so they could be consecrated to the LORD.

When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts." Job did this time and again.

I wash my hands innocently. I go around your altar, LORD,

They found me in the Temple doing these things just as I had completed the purification ceremony. No crowd or noisy mob was present.

A person must examine himself and then eat the bread and drink from the cup,

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are unclean purifies them physically,

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

General references

Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was near.

Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.