John 12:1: 6 Days before Passover Jesus is in Bethany
Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. Because of this and other great miracles Jesus had done, many believed in Him. But some who had seen Lazarus raised from the dead went to the Pharisees and told them of the miracle of Lazarus being raised from the dead. The Chief priests and the Council had convened a council to talk about the problems Jesus posed for them. They gave a command that if anyone knew where Jesus was they should report it to them so they could capture Jesus.
John 12:1: “Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead.” It was while Jesus was in the home of those he loved; those who had made a place suitable for His habitation, that Mary took a pound of very costly oil and anointed the feet of Jesus with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Judas Iscariot was there and asked why this costly oil had been wasted in such a way. Jesus replied as recorded in John 12:7-8: “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial. For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” Jesus knew His day of ultimate sacrifice was drawing near. He recognized the act of Mary to be associated with His coming death. It would have been made known to Jesus that the Pharisees were after Him. He left the next day for Jerusalem from Bethany and many who believed in Him followed Him to Jerusalem.
John 12:11-15: 5 Days before Passover Jesus enters Jerusalem
John 12:11-15:”The next day (day 5 before Passover) a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out ‘Hosanna! Blessed is He who come in the name of the Lord! The King of Israel!’ Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it was written: ‘Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming; sitting on a donkey’s colt (Zechariah 9:9).”Jesus is entering the house, which is Jerusalem for His inspection as the Passover Lamb. The first thing Jesus did upon entering Jerusalem was to go to the temple. He was a man on a mission of purification; of overcoming sin.
Matthew 21:12-13: “Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, ‘It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” Then we are told that Jesus healed the blind and the lame who came to Him in the temple. Jesus was confronted this day by the Pharisees (Matthew 21:15-16). The inspection of the Passover Lamb had begun (Exodus 12). Jesus did not sleep in Jerusalem that night. He returned to the home of Lazarus where He was welcome and lodged there.
Matthew 21:18,23: 4 Days before Passover
Jesus returns to Jerusalem from Bethany. When He entered the temple Jesus was confronted by the Pharisees again. The inspection of the Passover Lamb continues. As Jesus was teaching in the temple, the Pharisees confronted Him asking Jesus by what authority He did this. He speaks the Parable of the Wedding Feast and the Parable of the Vinedresser in reply to their question. He said render unto Ceaser what is Caeser’s and unto God what is God’s. Jesus spoke to the multitudes and His disciples in the temple and calls the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites and blind guides (Matthew 23). Jesus then departed from the temple and went up to the Mount of Olives. Here Jesus answered the disciples questions concerning the sign of His second coming and the end of the age in what we know as the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24.
Matthew 26:2: 3 Days before Passover
Matthew 26:2: “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” It was on this third day that Jesus spoke the Parables of Ten Virgins and the Sheep and the Goats. The chief priests, the scribes and the elders plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him, but not during the feast because that would cause an uproar among the people. It would violate the Sabbath. Isn’t it amazing that those who knew the Torah, the law of God so well could not see that the Passover Lamb was in their midst. This is a prime example of what happens when people are deceived by the religious spirit.
Matthew 22:17, Luke 22:7-8, Mark 12:25 and Luke 23:54-56: Passover Eve
Matthew 26:17-20: “Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus saying to Him, ‘Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover? And He said, ‘Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, the Teacher says, ‘My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples….when evening had come, He sat down with the twelve.” Jesus celebrates Passover Seder with His disciples in Jerusalem. Jesus is betrayed by Judas and taken into custody. The inspection of the Passover Lamb continues before the chief priests and the Pharisees, then before Herod and Pilate.
Matthew 27:1: “When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.”Jesus is sentenced by Pilate, scourged and taken to Golgotha or Calvary to be crucified. Luke 23:44-46: “ Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus cried out with a loud voice, He said, ‘Father into Your hands I commit My spirit. Having said this, He breathed His last.”He is on the cross by 9:00 a.m.
Luke 23:50-54: “Now behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good man and just man…He was from Arimathea…this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock where no one had ever lain before. That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near.”
Luke 23:50-54:
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