1. THE LIFE OF CHRIST

2. Mt. 26:17-19; Mk. 14:12-16; Lk. 22:7
Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?" And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat. And He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters.

3. 11 "Then you shall say to the master of the house,`The Teacher says to you, "My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."' "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?" "Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us." 16 So His disciples went out, and came into the city as Jesus had directed them, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover.

4. Exodus 12:1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. 4 'And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.

5. 5 'Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year
5 'Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 'Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7 'And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

6. Exodus 12:8'Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

7. 9 'Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire -- its head with its legs and its entrails. 10 'You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.

8. 11 'And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.

9. 12 'For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 'Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.

10. Exodus 12: 15 'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread
Exodus 12: 15 'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 'On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat -- that only may be prepared by you.

11. 17 'So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting 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 'For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. 20 'You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.' "

12. Exodus 12:25 "It will come to pass when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service. 26 "And it shall be, when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?' 27 "that you shall say, 'It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.' " So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

13. Numbers 9:6 Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. 7 And those men said to him, "We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?" 8 And Moses said to them, "Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you." 9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

14. 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD's Passover. 11 'On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 'They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.

15. 13 'But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. 14 'And if a stranger dwells among you, and would keep the LORD's Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.' "

16. A prayer of thanksgiving by the head of the house; drinking the first cup of (diluted) wine.
The eating of the bitter herbs, as a reminder of the bitter slavery in Egypt.
The son’s inquiry, “Why is this night distinguished from all other nights?” and the father’s appropriate reply either narrated or read.

17. The singing of the first part of the Hallel (Ps
The singing of the first part of the Hallel (Ps ) and the washing of hands. The second cup. The lamb was eaten in commemoration of what the ancestors had been commanded to do in the night when the Lord smote all the first-born of Egypt and delivered his people (Exo ). The unleavened bread was eaten in commemoration of the “the bread of haste” eaten by the ancestors.
Continuation of the meal, each easting as much as he liked, but always eating the last of the lamb. The third cup.
Singing of the last part of the Hallel (Psa ).
The Schertz Lectures in Luke p. 346

18. By New Testament times, Passover lambs were sacrificed between the ninth and eleventh hours (3:00 and 5:00 p.m.). Since thousands of pilgrims came to Jerusalem for the feast, the slaughtering of the Passover lambs was done at the temple in three massive shifts. The people were responsible for killing their own animals. They would hang them on hooks mounted to the walls or to columns in order to flay them.

19. The priest stood in rows and passed bowls full of blood that had been drained from the lambs. The priest closest to the alter would pour out the blood on the base of the alter. The people removed the sacrificial portions of the animals and gave them to the priests who, in turn, burned them on the alter. The rest of the lamb was taken home; the meat would be roasted on a wooden skewer in a clay oven and then eaten in the Passover meal.

20. Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?" And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat. And He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters. 11 "Then you shall say to the master of the house,`The Teacher says to you, "My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."' "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?" "Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us." 16 So His disciples went out, and came into the city as Jesus had directed them, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover. (Mt. 26:17-19; Mk. 14:12-16; Lk. 22:7)

21. John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper being ended1, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,

22. Jn. 13:2 ASV John 13:2 And during supper
Jn. 13:2 ESV John 13:2 During supper
Jn. 13:2 NIV John 13:2 The evening meal was in progress,

23. John 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

24. John 13:6 Then He came to Simon Peter
John 13:6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, are You washing my feet?" 7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." 8 Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." 9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" 10 Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean."

25. John 13:12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? 13 "You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 "For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 "Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

26. 1 Timothy 5:9 Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, 10 well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

27. As Lipscomb noted:
There is nothing in this that could indicate a special ordinance or formal observance to be perpetuated in the church. The foot washing of both the Old Testament and the New Testament was an act of helpful kindness when needed” (David Lipscomb, A Commentary on the Gospel of John (Nashville: The Gospel Advocate Company, 1960), p. 210).

28. “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another” (Gal. 5:13).

29. John 13:18 "I do not speak concerning all of you
John 13:18 "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.' 19 "Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He. 20 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."