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Passion Week – Day #8

It’s the day after Preparation Day, that being the Passover, so it is now the High Sabbath, the 15th of the first month, and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and Pharisees go to see Pilate to tell him that Yeshua said He would raise from the dead after three days, so they would like Pilate to place guards at the tomb until those three days were passed (Matt. 27:62-66). 

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Passion Week – Day #6

It is now, Tuesday, the 13th of the month. The day before the Passover. 

This day might get a little confusing because of the timing of the day.  We are conditioned to think of a day beginning at midnight.  But the Jewish calendar begins the day at the setting sun when it is evening.  We’re going to be looking at the second half of the 13th, the daytime, but most of this post will actually be what happens on the 14th, in the evening, which would be the beginning of Day #7.

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