Jesus Anointed at Bethany^(A)(B)(C)

14 Now the Passover^(D) and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.^(E)

⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,^(A) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.^{(B) 7} Then they are to take some of the blood^(C) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸ That same night^(D) they are to eat the meat roasted^(E) over the fire, along with bitter herbs,^(F) and bread made without yeast.^{(G) 9} Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.^{(H) 10} Do not leave any of it till morning;^(I) if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ¹¹ This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste;^(J) it is the Lord’s Passover.^(K)

¹² “On that same night I will pass through^(L) Egypt and strike down^(M) every firstborn^(N) of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods^(O) of Egypt. I am the Lord.^{(P) 13} The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over^(Q) you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.^(R)

¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate;^(S) for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.^{(T) 15} For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.^(U) On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off^(V) from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work^(W) at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

¹⁷ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(X) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.^(Y) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^{(Z) 18} In the first month^(AA) you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹ For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner^(AB) or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off^(AC) from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live,^(AD) you must eat unleavened bread.”^(AE)

Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

13 It was just before the Passover Festival.^(A) Jesus knew that the hour had come^(B) for him to leave this world and go to the Father.^(C) Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus^(A)

22 Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,^{(B) 2} and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus,^(C) for they were afraid of the people.

²⁵ You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:^(A)

²⁷ Indeed Herod^(C) and Pontius Pilate^(D) met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus,^(E) whom you anointed. ²⁸ They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.^(F)

The Passover^(A)

16 Observe the month of Aviv^(B) and celebrate the Passover^(C) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. ² Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.^{(D) 3} Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,^(E) because you left Egypt in haste^(F)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.^{(G) 4} Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening^(H) of the first day remain until morning.^(I)

⁵ You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you ⁶ except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary^[a](J) of your departure from Egypt. ⁷ Roast^(K) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. ⁸ For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly^(L) to the Lord your God and do no work.^(M)

⁵ The Lord’s Passover^(A) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^{(B) 6} On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread^(C) begins; for seven days^(D) you must eat bread made without yeast. ⁷ On the first day hold a sacred assembly^(E) and do no regular work.

⁵³ So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(A)

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.^(B) Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

⁵⁵ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^(C) many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing^(D) before the Passover. ⁵⁶ They kept looking for Jesus,^(E) and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” ⁵⁷ But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees^(A) called a meeting^(B) of the Sanhedrin.^(C)

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.^(D)