But they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

At every festival the governor had a custom of releasing to the crowd any prisoner whom they wanted.

Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

At every festival, Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

Every year Jesus' parents would go to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

When Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to the festival as usual.

When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

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

Then the day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.

Now he was obligated to release someone for them at the festival.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.

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

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began teaching.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

When he saw how this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.