Bible Verses About Passover

So the service was prepared; the cohanim stood at their posts; and the L'vi'im worked in their divisions, in keeping with the king's order.

They slaughtered the Pesach lamb; the cohanim splashed [the blood, which they received from the L'vi'im], and the L'vi'im skinned and butchered them.

For the cohanim and L'vi'im had purified themselves together; all of them were pure. So they slaughtered the Pesach lambs for all the people from the exile and for their kinsmen the cohanim and for themselves.

Sound the shofar at Rosh-Hodesh and at full moon for the pilgrim feast,

He placed it as a testimony in Y'hosef when he went out against the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar voice say,

"'On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to have the Pesach, a feast seven days long; matzah will be eaten.

On that day the prince will provide, for himself and for all the people of the land, a young bull as a sin offering.

On the seven days of the feast he is to provide a burnt offering for ADONAI, seven young bulls and seven rams without defect daily for the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering.

He is to provide as a grain offering a bushel [of grain] for a young bull and a bushel for a ram, and for each bushel [of grain] a gallon of olive oil.

"As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake."

While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, "Take! Eat! This is my body!"

Also he took a cup of wine, made the b'rakhah, and gave it to them, saying, "All of you, drink from it!

For this is my blood, which ratifies the New Covenant, my blood shed on behalf of many, so that they may have their sins forgiven.

It was the governor's custom during a festival to set free one prisoner, whom ever the crowd asked for.

It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

for they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."

On the first day for matzah, when they slaughtered the lamb for Pesach, Yeshua's talmidim asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare your Seder?"

He sent two of his talmidim with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him;

and whichever house he enters, tell him that the Rabbi says, `Where is the guest room for me, where I am to eat the Pesach meal with my talmidim?'

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations there."

The talmidim went off, came to the city and found things just as he had told them they would be; and they prepared the Seder.

When evening came, Yeshua arrived with the Twelve.

As they were reclining and eating, Yeshua said, "Yes! I tell you that one of you is going to betray me."

They became upset and began asking him, one after the other, "You don't mean me, do you?"

"It's one of the Twelve," he said to them, "someone dipping matzah in the dish with me.