Ye know that after two days the passover is to be kept,---and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

Now upon the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, came the disciples to Jesus, saying, where wouldest thou have us make preparation for thee to eat the passover?

And He said, Go into the city, to such a man, and tell him, The master saith, my time is near, I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples: and the disciples did as Jesus ordered them,

and prepared the passover.

"I desire mercy rather than sacrifice:" for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

and if ye had known what that scripture means, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice," ye would not have condemned the guiltless.