Passover Rehearsal
The Divine Design: Passion Week Day Two – Passover Rehearsal |The Last Supper
Nisan 10, Martius 10, True March 10: The Messiah-Centered Calibration
Mark 14:13-17 Summary
Yashua sent two of his students into the city, telling them that they would meet a man carrying a water pitcher. They were to follow this man to the house he entered and ask the owner, "The Teacher says, 'Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover (Rehearsal) with my students?'" The owner would then show them a large, furnished upper room, where they prepared the Passover (Rehearsal) meal. When evening came, Yashua arrived with the twelve.
Yahuhhanan Chapter 13 Summary
This chapter details the events surrounding the final meal, focusing on Yashua’s teaching through action and word.
The Foot Washing and Example of Service
Before the feast of the Passover (Rehearsal), Yashua, knowing that his time had come, demonstrated his love for his students "to the end".
During supper, he arose, laid aside his garments, took a towel, and began to wash the students’ feet to give them an example of how they should serve one another.
Shimon Qephah initially refused to have Yashua wash his feet, but yielded when Yashua stated, "If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me".
Yashua explained, "If I then, the Master and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash each other’s feet".
Before the feast of the Passover (Rehearsal), Yashua, knowing that his time had come, demonstrated his love for his students "to the end".
During supper, he arose, laid aside his garments, took a towel, and began to wash the students’ feet to give them an example of how they should serve one another.
Shimon Qephah initially refused to have Yashua wash his feet, but yielded when Yashua stated, "If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me".
Yashua explained, "If I then, the Master and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash each other’s feet".
The Betrayal Revealed
Yashua was troubled in spirit and testified that one of them would betray him, fulfilling the Scripture, "He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me".
He identified the betrayer by dipping a piece of bread and giving it to Judas Iscariot, (Heb., Yahudah Ish-carioth) Shimon’s son.
After Yahudah received the bread, Satan entered him, and Yashua instructed him to "do quickly" what he was doing.
Yahudah immediately went out; "It was night".
Yashua was troubled in spirit and testified that one of them would betray him, fulfilling the Scripture, "He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me".
He identified the betrayer by dipping a piece of bread and giving it to Judas Iscariot, (Heb., Yahudah Ish-carioth) Shimon’s son.
After Yahudah received the bread, Satan entered him, and Yashua instructed him to "do quickly" what he was doing.
Yahudah immediately went out; "It was night".
The New Commandment and Denial Foretold
After Yahudah departed, Yashua gave his students a new commandment: "that you will love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also will love one another". This love would be the distinguishing mark of his students.
Yashua told Shimon Qephah that where he was going, Qephah could not follow yet, but would follow afterwards.
When Qephah declared he would lay down his life for Yashua, Yashua predicted, "Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow (the Roman “gallotrina” trumpet won’t sound) until you have denied me three times".
It is also worth noting that over time, the significance of Nisan 10 as the Lamb Selection Day morphed into the tradition of Shabbat HaGadol. This "Great Sabbath" commemorates the specific Sabbath before the Exodus when the Israelites in Egypt selected their lambs in plain sight of their neighbors, an act of great faith that has been preserved in historical and liturgical memory.
Before Constantine banned Calends as the beginning of the month, the 10th day of any month could not be a Sabbath. It was always the 2nd day of the 2nd week of the month, and remains so in the Messiah-centered (Divine Design) Calendar.
One thing to point out is that when the calendar is calibrated to begin each day at dawn, it leads to a more cohesive timeline. This means that even though Yashua was arrested at night and was examined by both High Priests, it was still the 10th day, the day of examination of the selected lamb.
In a couse I attended at a Bible College. "The Gospel of John", to be specific, Professor Laing pointed out that the Greek term for rooster crowing, elektorophonia, was actuallly the Greek way of saying the Latin "Gallotrina," literally meaning the sound of the rooster. It was used for the Roman trumpets that would sound every hour on the hour of the sundial. In the Spring, the first trumpet sounded at about 7 am, the end of the first hour of the day. The 2nd trumpet would sound at 8 am, which would be when the Court Rooms in David's Palace would open. Since this would all take place, including Qephah's 3 denials, which would take place after dawn, and before the Court opened at 8 am, I will discuss this in more detail tomorrow.
After Yahudah departed, Yashua gave his students a new commandment: "that you will love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also will love one another". This love would be the distinguishing mark of his students.
Yashua told Shimon Qephah that where he was going, Qephah could not follow yet, but would follow afterwards.
When Qephah declared he would lay down his life for Yashua, Yashua predicted, "Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow (the Roman “gallotrina” trumpet won’t sound) until you have denied me three times".
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