Good Friday: Unleavened Bread

INTRO: We have come once more to the day we call 'Good Friday'. It is the day we commemorate the death of Christ. In Leviticus 23, Israel's seven divinely appointed feasts are listed. It all begins with Passover, which begins on the eve of Nisan the 14th. The lambs were slain, to use a Hebrew expression, between the evenings. That is, they were slain so that the Passover meal could be prepared before the Sabbath began when and it began when the sun disappeared in the evening.

The Jews had a special preparation day for the Passover, which was commemorated in the evening. Actually, I understand that preparation for the Passover began the month before, the month Adar of which we learned in the feast of Purim. In that month roads and bridges were repaired and preparation was made for several million pilgrims to come to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the law was that anybody with a home there made room for guests. And so, on Passover, families from all over the known world gathered for the Passover meal in Jerusalem. It is the meal Jesus had with His disciples that we call 'the last supper'.