The Passover: The Savior

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The Passover The Saviors Last Supper

• Teach of Me
• LDS Extensions
• April 12, 2009

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QUIZ

1. What could the chief priests and scribes not
   allowed to do on Passover?
2. What type of bread was used at Passover?
3. When the disciples rebuked a woman who put oil on
   Christs head, what did Jesus say?
4. After singing a hymn at Passover, where did they
   go?
5. What were the three political groups in Jerusalem
   at the time of Christs ministry?
6. Give a NT scripture answering What is life
   eternal?

2 Matt 2611, 6 John 713
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Background

• How many celebrated Passover before?
• What is Passover?
• Lamb 10th plague of Egypt/blood on door
• Christ Last Supper was a Passover meal
• Haggadah The telling
• Script you use to tell the Passover (procedure)
• Back then 2-4 hrs. / now 4-6 hrs.
• Many of the Brethren celebrate / BYU yearly Seder

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With all due respect to Leonardo Da Vinci
it didnt look like this!
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The Passover Procedure

• Reclining Feast!
• symbol of freedom
• triclinium (3-sided, low, U-shaped table)
• Lean on left arm, eat with right, lay on stomach

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The Passover Procedure

• History of the redemption related Passover!
• Blessing of the Food Beginning of the Meal
• Singing of the Hallel (Psalms 113-118)
• Dipping Feast! (dip the lamb in soupy mixture)
• Dip unleavened bread into communal pot

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The Passover Procedure

• Seat of Elijah (DC 110)
• returned April 3, on day of Passover that year
• Today Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Why is it not called Passover in modern times?
• There is no sacrifice of lamb at temple

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The PassoverGifts to others

1. Incense
2. Anoint head with oil
3. Drink of Water
4. Wash feet

Honoring guests was a large part of Passover
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The Passover Seating
and disciples
Other guests
Other guests
and disciples
Why U-shaped?
1st honor
Servants serving them
Host
2nd honor
chief servant
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Passover Food

• Unleavened Bread (why?)
• No yeast for bread to rise quick flight from
  Egypt
• Lamb Roasted, not boiled
• Whole lamb, or a section/piece of lamb
• Depends on wealth of family
• Sop / Honor
• Communal sop soupy mixture with pieces of lamb
• Put on bread and give to another person great
  honor

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Pascal Lamb Animal Sacrifices

• Passover would officially close the requirement
  of animal sacrifices (why were animal sacrifices
  made in the first place?
• Adam, Lehi, and others offered sacrifices
• Nowadays we remember Christ through sacrament

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Pascal Lamb Animal Sacrifices

• From at least the time of the Exodus when Moses
  led the children of Israel from Pharaohs
  captivity, the Lords people had offered the
  firstlings of their flocks in sacrifice. Hours
  after the Passover feast in the upper room, the
  Son of Man shed His blood as an infinite eternal
  sacrifice, and the shedding of animal blood by
  the faithful Saints ceased. All sacrifices of the
  past were fulfilled in Him. Thus Paul testified
  Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. (1
  Cor. 57) From this night forward, the sacrament
  would point toward the one supreme sacrificethe
  Lamb of God.
• David B. Haight, Ensign April 1988

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Passover Food

• Bitter Herbs
• Haroset
• Sweetness reminds that bitter can be sweet
• Other olives, fruits, nuts
• Wine Four Cups

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4 Cups of Wine Exodus 66-7
Why refill cup four times?

• I will bring you
• I will deliver you
• I will redeem you
• I will take you

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Did Jesus Really Drink Wine?

• Wine vs. Strong Wine or Strong Drink
• Passover wine
• 1 part wine / 4 parts water
• 1 part wine / 3 parts water
• For what purpose?
• cleaner than available water

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Did Jesus Really Drink Wine?
To consume the amount of alcohol that is in two
martinis by drinking wine containing three parts
water to one part wine, one would have to drink
over 22 glasses! In other words, it is possible
to become intoxicated from wine mixed with three
parts water, but ones drinking would probably
affect the bladder long before it affected the
mind!
Christianity Today, 20 June 1975
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Passover What the Gospels Teach

• Luke 227-13
• Luke 2224-27
• John 1321-27
• Luke 2217-20
• John 134-8
• Matthew 2630

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Passover LUKE

• Luke 227-13
• Jesus is host of Passover
• verse 12 large room furnished triclinium
  table
• Luke 2224-27
• Wanted to know where to sit
• Peter in chief spot

1st honor
chief servant
Host
chief servant
2nd honor
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Passover JOHN

• John 1321-27
• John leaned on Jesus' bosom John by Jesus
• Christ gave sop to Judas
• Very high honor honored him by loving his
  enemies to the end
• Jesus washes Judass feet
• Tried to give every opportunity for Judas to
  repent
• Judas got feet washed, given sop, and put in 1st
  honor position at table
• Ear cut off after betrayal how did Jesus react?
• Do it quickly could refer to many things

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The Passover Seating
Judas
L. Hand
Christ
R. Hand
John
Peter

• lean on bosom leaned back toward Jesus, who
  is naturally facing towards his right (because
  both are leaning on left arm)

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Passover LUKE

• Luke 2217-20
• Each person got 4 cups of wine
• Refilled, not 4 physically separate cups
• verse 19gave thanks means blessed
  (sacrament)
• Bless bread, then break bread (ANCIENTLY)
• How is modern sacrament done differently?
• Break the bread, then bless it
• Christ broken then blessed resurrected

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Passover JOHN

• John 134-8
• Gave the common Passover gift of washing feet
• Means that Christ is the Host
• You dont understand, Peter, why I (Christ) do
  it washing feet but you will later.
• verse 8 Peter will take over church after Jesus
• Christ washed feet to teach and show Peter how
  the leader of the church acts

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Passover MATTHEW

• Something new is added by Matthew
• Matthew 2630
• Hymn of thanks hamal
• Psalms 114-118

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Passover LUKE

• Luke 2217-18
• until Kingdom of God come 2nd Coming
• DC 272
• Matter not what used for sacrament
• DC 275
• Christ will drink of vine
• Adam-ondi-Ahman

Sacrament is like weekly baptismif we are living
worthy
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Bear Record of Him

• Significant, too, is the fact that the Son of
  God commenced His earthly ministry with an
  ordinancebaptismand ended His ministry with an
  ordinancethe sacrament. Both bore record of His
  death, burial, and resurrection.
• David B. Haight, Ensign April 1988

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Henry B. Eyring
Promises and Blessings of Remembering

• First, if you will let your heart be drawn to
  the Savior and always remember Him and if you
  will draw near to our Heavenly Father in prayer,
  you will have put on spiritual armor. You will be
  protected against pride because you will know
  that any success comes not from your human
  powers. And you will be protected against the
  thoughts which come rushing in upon us that we
  are too weak, too inexperienced, too unworthy to
  do what we are called of God to do to serve and
  help save His children. We can have come into our
  hearts the reassurance recorded in Moroni
  Christ truly said unto our fathers If ye have
  faith ye can do all things which are expedient
  unto me (Mor. 1023).

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Henry B. Eyring
Promises and Blessings of Remembering

• There is another sure promise. It is this
  Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant
  to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
  I testify that Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem,
  was and is the Only Begotten of the Father, the
  Lamb of God. He chose from before the foundations
  of the earth to be your Savior, my Savior, and
  the Savior of all we will ever know or meet. I
  testify that He was resurrected and that because
  of His Atonement we may be washed clean through
  our faith to obey the laws and accept the
  ordinances of the gospel.

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Henry B. Eyring
Promises and Blessings of Remembering

• I promise you that you will feel the influence
  of the Holy Ghost touch your heart as you search
  the scriptures with new purpose and as you pray
  earnestly. From that, you will have the assurance
  that God lives, that He answers prayers, that
  Jesus is the living Christ, and that He loves
  you. And you will feel your love for Him
  increase.
• Henry B. Eyring, Liahona, Dec 2005, 9