⁴ “When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be ^(A)unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

^2 (A)and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.

⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸ Let us therefore celebrate the festival, ^(A)not with the old leaven, ^(B)the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

^22 (A)He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

A Living Stone and a Holy People

2 ^(A)So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

²⁶ For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, ^(A)holy, innocent, unstained, ^(B)separated from sinners, and ^(C)exalted above the heavens.

The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up

^27 (A)“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, ^(B)save me from ^(C)this hour’? But ^(D)for this purpose I have come to ^(E)this hour.

³⁴ For he whom ^(A)God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit ^(B)without measure.

³⁸ Then he said to them, ^(A)“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and ^(B)watch^[a] with me.”