From the Last Supper to the Resurrection

WEDNESDAY

• Passover begins at sundown
• Last Supper
• Prayer at Gethsemane
• Arrest
• Trials through the night

THURSDAY

• Still Passover until Sundown
• Trials continue until morning
• 9:00 a.m. – Crucifixion
• 12 p.m. – Darkness
• 3 p.m. – It is finished
• in the grave before sundown because of Sabbath
• Sundown – Sabbath

(first day of Feast of Unleavened Bread is always the day after Passover and a Sabbath)

FRIDAY

• Still a Sabbath in celebration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Saturday Sabbath begins at sundown

SATURDAY

• Sabbath

SUNDAY

• First Day of the Week
• Jesus Rose from the grave on the Feast of First Fruits

SCRIPTURES

• Mark 10:33,34 - three days later
• Luke 18:31-33 - the third day
• Matthew 12:40 - Three days and three nights
• Luke 24:1 - On the first day of the week
• Luke 24:21 - third day
• Luke 24:46 - rise again from the dead on the third day

CONCLUSION

• Jesus fulfilled Passover ON Passover
• Jesus dealt with sin ON the Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Jesus became our first fruits of resurrection ON the Feast of First Fruits (promise of resurrection in the future - the coming harvest)
• The Church started with the coming of the Holy Spirit ON Pentecost - the promised harvest from First Fruits
• It was a double Sabbath week