1 The feast of unleavened bread was near. This is called the Passover.
Luke 22:1 Cross References - NSB
Exodus 12:6-23
6 »‘Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals.
7 »‘Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.
8 »‘That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast.
9 »‘Do not eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted.
10 »‘Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left.
11 »‘Eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s Passover.’«
12 Jehovah said: »That night I will go through the land of Egypt. I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt! I am Jehovah!
13 »The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you live. When I see the blood I will pass over you. No plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 »This day will be a memorial to you. You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah. You are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance throughout your generations.
15 »You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.
16 »You shall have a holy assembly on the first day. There should be another holy assembly on the seventh day. No work at all will be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person that alone may be prepared by you.
17 »You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance.
18 »In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
19 »There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
20 »You shall not eat anything leavened. Eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.«
21 Moses called all the elders of Israel and said: »Take lambs according to your families and slay the Passover lamb.
22 »Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. No one shall go outside the door of his house until morning.
23 »Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, Jehovah will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to kill you.
Leviticus 23:5-6
Matthew 26:2-5
2 »As you know, the Passover will be here in two days. At that time the Son of man will be captured and impaled.«
3 The chief priest and the elders of the people assembled at the court of Caiaphas, the high priest.
4 All of them, using deceit, worked together to capture Jesus and kill him.
5 They insisted: »Not during the feast; it could start a riot among the people.«
Mark 14:1-2
Mark 14:12
12 Now it was the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover. His disciples said to him: »Where do you want to go to prepare to eat the Passover?«
John 11:55-57
55 It was the Jewish Passover. Many went out of the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
56 They searched for Jesus. They stood in the temple speaking to one another: »What do you think? Will he come to the feast?«
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any man knew where he was, he should report it that they might seize him.