During the process of gathering and assembling all the pertinent information for the Spring feast posts; the reality of the facts and the multiple events surrounding our central focus became clearer than ever before. At best we are prone to forget, at worst we ignore all the activity and miracles taking place on and around the same time as we remembered the Passover.
Even though the week has physically passed, it is still highly relevant as the halfway point, (25th day) to Pentecost is called the 2nd Passover. A 2nd chance to prepare our hearts. For these are His Divine appointments.
This particular year, everything changed. What had been in the planning and on hold stage, prophetically rehearsed for millennia, was now taking place and unfolding in real-time.
Although many of these events are recorded in all four Gospels, those here are primarily followed in Matthew chapters 20-28 and John 12.
Prior to the start of passover week,
Jesus/Yeshua raises Lazarus from the dead no doubt one of the last events
that made the chief priests decide to do something about Him, but they did not want to do it right on the festival of Passover.
In Luke 12:20–21 the Greeks asked Philip to take them to Jesus. In verse 24, He taught on the seed falling to the ground, prophetically declaring what was about to occur in His own life.
John 12: 28 God’s voice came from heaven, “and I did glorify and I shall glorify again” the crowd heard thunder.
In verse 29, an angel spoke to Him and
He begins by prophesying that He will be betrayed and the chief priests and scribes will condemn him to death.
James and John were arguing who would sit on his right or left hand.
Verse 30 Jesus heals two blind men. He touched their eyes and
immediately they received their sight and followed him.
Then He tells the disciples to go to Bethphage, near the Mount of Olives and to bring the donkeys colt, fulfilling Zechariah 9:9
Then the triumphal entry as recorded in
John 12:12, the next day he entered Jerusalem on the donkey.
Jesus weeps over Jerusalem because they miss their appointed time of visitation.
In John 16:23; His teaching to ask the Father in His Name.
John 17. The whole chapter Jesus prays for all believers.
verse 12, Jesus went into the temple but before-hand, He purposefully and thoughtfully made a whip
and then turned over the tables in the temple courtyard where the merchants were trading animals and birds for the temple sacrifices and drove them out.
vs. 14 The blind and lame came to Him and He healed them.
This displeased the chief priests and scribes and was the final straw to them trying to get rid of Him.
He went to Bethany and stayed there
John 12:16 also tells us that days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany.
John 12:19 was the withering of the fig tree,
then John records in 12:12-9, the crowd saw it and then the high priests wanted to kill Lazarus after Jesus raised him.
John 12:23 He was teaching daily in the temple and the chief priests and elders came and challenged Him.
Vrs 31- 41 He warned them and then verse 45-46 they realized was He meant.
Chapters 22 and 23 He continued teaching and called them hypocrites,
verse 24, He left the temple and went and sat on the Mount of olives,
here He tells them of the events that are going to take place in future.
chapter 25 teaches the parables of 5 wise
and 5 foolish virgins.
Also the
and the separating of the sheep and goat nations.
Chp. 26:2 He tells the disciples that after two days is the feast of the Passover and the Son of Man will be betrayed to be crucified.
Chapter 26:3-5, the chief priests, scribes and elders talked to Caiaphas and consulted how they might take Jesus and kill him.
Matthew 26:6 Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper.
Matthew 7-13, 19 is the record of the woman who washed His feet with her tears and emptied her alabaster box of precious ointment over Him which Jesus stated prophetically, was in preparation for His death.
Jesus tells Simon He knows what he is thinking and declares that the one who is forgiven much, loves much.
14-16 Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and they gave him 30 pieces of silver.
17- Jesus tells His disciples to go and make ready for the seder meal and the Passover
23 24 Jesus tells that one of them there will betray Him
26 He takes the bread and the cup and institutes communion as we know it.
John chapter 13:4-7 if after supper He took a towel poured water into a basin and washed the disciples feet.
John 36: Jesus prays in Gethsemane – Gat Sh’monim, which means olive press. This was an enclosed grove with its oil press.
And olive grove was not a garden, we know it better as Gethsemane.
Vs.40 Peter, James and John could not stay awake one hour, three times He goes to the disciples and they were sleeping each time.
Jesus sweats blood with the stress of the burden of the world’s sin that he is taking upon Himself. Luke 22:44 and Mark 14:33, 34 tells us that He almost died at this point.
There is some scientific data confirming that under extreme stress, blood will be forced through capillaries to the skin surface, appearing as if blood is being sweated.
Verse 43 He saw an angel.
47-49 Judas arrives with the chief priests and elders of the people and betrays Jesus with a kiss.
John chapter 18:5–7 Jesus spoke ‘I am that I am’, ‘Anochi’, with such a powerful authority and anointing they all fell backward to the ground.
During the process of gathering and assembling all the pertinent information for the Spring feast posts; the reality of the facts and the multiple events surrounding our central focus became clearer than ever before. At best we are prone to forget, at worst we ignore all the activity and miracles taking place on and around the same time as we remembered the Passover.
