On His Way to the Cross :

• 6 days before Passover, Jesus arrives in Bethany — Mary and Martha’s house — day 8th of the month of Abib and a Friday. (John 12:1-11)
• A dinner was given in His honor — dinner after 6 PM, which begins the 9th of Abib and the Sabbath Day. (Friday night 6 PM — begins the Sabbath).
• Mary anoints His feet with pure nard (expensive pure nard oil perfume), which Jesus claimed that it was in preparation for His burial.
• During the Sabbath Day many Jews came to visit him in Bethany and they believed in Jesus.
• The next day after the Sabbath, which is the first day of the week, which is Palm Sunday, which was the 10th day of Abib — Jesus makes triumphant entry in Jerusalem (John 12:12-19; Mark 11:1-11).
• The Lamb will be observed for blemishes and defect until the 14th by the multitudes, by religious leaders, by Pilate, by Herod, by soldiers.
• At the end of the day on Sunday, Jesus went to the temple and he looked around and then went back to Bethany with His disciples (Mark 11:11).

• Left Bethany with disciples and was hungry. Went to eat from the fig tree and found it with no fruits and cursed it.
• Goes to the temple and finds those who were buying and selling there and drives them out claiming that God’s house is a house of prayer.
• Conspiracy to kill Him begins.
• When evening of Monday night came, Jesus and His disciples left the city.

• They see the fig tree that had withered and Jesus teaches them about faith. (Mark 11:20-26).
• Begins confrontation with Sadducees and Pharisees.
• Jesus cries over Jerusalem.
• Jesus gives the end-time prophecy of Matthew 24.
• At the end of the day, Jesus said: “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” Matthew 26:1-2 (NKJV).
• They go back to Bethany late on Tuesday.

• Tuesday night after 6 PM, already Wednesday, he eats at the house of Simon the leper in Bethany. (Mark 14:3; Matthew 26:6)
• There a woman, not Mary, comes with an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant and poured it on Jesus’ head. Jesus claims that she is doing it for His burial. (Mark 14:3-9; Matthew 26:7-13)
• Jesus probably spent a restful day on Wednesday in Bethany with His friends.
• Judas goes to make a deal with the religious leaders to betray Jesus. (Mark 14:10-11; Matt. 26:14-16)
• Wednesday afternoon, Jesus and His disciples head back to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover Feast. (Mark 14:12-16; Matt. 26:17-19)

EVENING : the 14th day of Abib, Thursday
• The 14th began at 6 PM Wednesday night when the lamb was killed at twilight and the Passover feast was celebrated. (Mark 14:12; Exodus 12:1-6)
• The Passover meal was prepared and Jesus sat on the floor, as it was the custom and they all ate from bowls in the middle of the group dipping their bread into them. (Matt. 26:19-20, 23)
• The 14th was already considered the unofficial beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread so they were eating unleavened bread. (Mat. 26:17)
• That night Jesus proclaims the New Covenant. (Luke 22:19-20)
• Jesus reveals the ministry of the Holy Spirit, which the Father promised to give them.(John 14-16)

NIGHT : the 14th day of Abib, Thursday
• Jesus and His disciples go to the Garden of Gethsemane where He prays to the Father. (Luke 22:39-46)
• There he is betrayed by Judas and arrested. (Luke 22:47-54)
• First trial : Anna’s house who was the father-in-law of the high priest. (John 18:13-23)
• Second trial : Anna sent Jesus to Caiphas the high priest (John 18:24)

EARLY MORNING : the 14th day of Abib, Thursday
• Third Trial : Jesus was interrogated by the council of elders. (Luke 22:66-71)
• Fourth Trial : Jesus taken to Pilate. Jews do not go in because they have not yet eaten their Passover meal—too busy conspiring to arrest Jesus. (John 18:28-38)
• Fifth Trial : Pilate sent Jesus to Herod because Jesus is from Galilee, Herod’s jurisdiction. (Luke 23:6-12)
• Sixth Trial : Pilate brings Jesus to the chief priest, the rulers, and the people declaring that neither he nor Herod found anything worthy of death. The people’s final judgment — “Crucify Him!” (Luke 23:13-21)
• Pilate washed his hand declaring himself not guilty of innocent blood. The people declared that Jesus’ blood fall on them and their children. (Matthew 27:24-25)
• Jesus is then tortured and ridiculed by Roman soldiers. (Matthew 27:27-31)

AFTERNOON : the 14th day of Abib, Thursday
• Jesus is taken to be crucified and two robbers were crucified with Him—one is saved the other condemned. (Matt. 27:33-44)
• About the ninth hour (3 PM, Thursday, the 14th day of Abib), Jesus cried out to the Father and died. (Matt. 27:46-50)
• Finally, like it was first celebrated, nothing from the lambs could stay for the next day. Jesus also had to be taken down from the cross before 6 PM, when day 15th began. (John 19:31)
• The next day was a high Sabbath because it was the official start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev. 23:6) and it was on Friday the 15th, not a regular Sabbath.
• Jesus fulfilled this feast, as His body never experienced corruption (Psalm 16:9-11). Unleavened bread does not decay. Leaven is a type of sin. Jesus had no sins. (1 Cor. 5:6).
• Jesus resurrected on the first day of the week — the Feast of First Fruit, which He also fulfilled. (1 Cor. 15:20-23; Leviticus 23:10)