How come good Friday is only two days from Easter Sunday?

[ImAHebrew]

What exactly do you, mean with <morrow>? 'morning', or, "day"? Because 'mocharoth' is next DAY. Day beginning sunset.

Shalom Gerhard, the "morrow" after the Sabbath is the "next" day after the Sabbath, beginning AT sunset and going until the next sunset. Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

 

[ImAHebrew]

This --Leviticus 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the BONE-Day, [that] it (the BONE-Day) may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.-- is NOT <<some day>>; it is "ye shall proclaim / make Law / institute on the BONE-Day, [that] it (the proclamation) may be a statute".
Verses 21,22 is Law ABOUT Bone-Day the 14th; is not, Bone-Day the 14th.
It is the bony and sinewy JOINT of the TEXT and context, a literary phenomenon called a 'chiasmus' / 'chiasm'. It is not a historical record of a sequence of days. Which is why verses 21/22 are where they are in the Text BETWEEN the historic day the "Fiftieth Day" / Pentecost extension of the passover, and the first day of the Seventh Month and the historic and institutional days of the feasts of the Seventh Month.
And that explains why not Pentecost but the 14th is called the Bone-Day in verses 21/22, and is not called a 'sabbath' or 'the Sabbath'.

Shalom Gerhard, are you sure you KNOW what you are speaking about? You are taking a very CLEAR Scripture and DESTROYING it with "literary phenomenon." Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

 

[ImAHebrew]

It simply means you --the Israelites-- cannot, may not, eat LEAVENED food. Because it was in the seven days ulb had to, be eaten. That's what it <means>.

Shalom Gerhard, I disagree because it not only speaks about "bread," but ALSO "parched corn, AND "green ears." Why can't "parched corn," and "green ears" not be eaten? What has to happen BEFORE the eating of the "parched corn," and "green ears?" (Leviticus 23:14) Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

One of the arguments that "traditionalists" have brought forth in debunking a separate Sabbath that fell during Passion Week, is that a "megas" Sabbath, which John spoke of in John 19:31, would only be a "megas" Sabbath IF the 15th fell ON the weekly Sabbath. My whole contention is that the "megas" day, which John says was a Sabbath, fell by itself from Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset, giving a "work" day that fell BETWEEN the two Sabbaths.

Things seem to get simpler and clearer.

OK. You are a Wednesday crucifixionist. Now I at least know where I stand with you.

Therefore, take you paragraph here,

<<One of the arguments that "traditionalists" have brought forth in debunking a separate Sabbath that fell during Passion Week, is that a "megas" Sabbath, which John spoke of in John 19:31, would only be a "megas" Sabbath IF the 15th fell ON the weekly Sabbath.>>

I am with you.

<<My whole contention is that the "megas" day, which John says was a Sabbath, ...>>
...which John says, "since it was the Preparation ... because great was the day of that Sabbath ... the Jews asked..."


"Since the Preparation was..." which, 'preparation', "was the day of that sabbath"?
It was "the Preparation WHICH is the Fore-Sabbath", answers Mark 15:42! In fact says Mark, it was "the Fore-Sabbath ... since the Preparation had begun" or "because it was the Preparation which is the Fore-Sabbath".

Can it be clearer? Indeed, John does make it still clearer. With two things in the verse in the very near vicinity.

John describes the Passover BONE-DAY graphically like nowhere in the whole Bible it is graphically described as the BONE DAY in and of the Last Passover of Yahweh SUFFERING of Jesus the Christ of God prophesied and promised.

And John describes the Passover BONE DAY of Jesus Christ in unmistakable terms of honour and respect, in worship of Christ in his Goings Through Last Passover Suffering INTO "In-Between-Sabbath" INTO rest in the SANCTUARY of the SHEKINAH OF THE ALMIGHTY in the grave of the mighty and rich, the lowly Jesus' new grave no man has been laid in, HEWN OUT OF ROCK, on "great day of sabbath", "on the fifteenth day of the First Month", "according to the Scriptures." "And the Rock was Christ."

Jesus' BONE DAY <<fell not by itself>> on "that day being great day of sabbath"; it fell "on the fifteenth day of the month" because "PROCLAIMED BONE DAY" on God's command, and "the First Sheaf" to the pre-determinate Council of the LORD Almighty, was "brought in" and was "laid in rest" ... "WAVED, BEFORE THE LORD". Leviticus 23:9,10; 21,22; 11.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Shalom Gerhard, I disagree because it not only speaks about "bread," but ALSO "parched corn, AND "green ears." Why can't "parched corn," and "green ears" not be eaten? What has to happen BEFORE the eating of the "parched corn," and "green ears?" (Leviticus 23:14) Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

They can be eaten, but unleavened eaten.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

that Sabbath was a "megas" day)

...is wrong. "the day, was great, of that sabbath" of the Passover. 'ehn megaleh heh hehmera ekeinou tou sabbatou'

 

[ImAHebrew]

Things seem to get simpler and clearer.

OK. You are a Wednesday crucifixionist. Now I at least know where I stand with you.

Therefore, take you paragraph here,

<<One of the arguments that "traditionalists" have brought forth in debunking a separate Sabbath that fell during Passion Week, is that a "megas" Sabbath, which John spoke of in John 19:31, would only be a "megas" Sabbath IF the 15th fell ON the weekly Sabbath.>>

I am with you.

<<My whole contention is that the "megas" day, which John says was a Sabbath, ...>>
...which John says, "since it was the Preparation ... because great was the day of that Sabbath ... the Jews asked..."


"Since the Preparation was..." which, 'preparation', "was the day of that sabbath"?
It was "the Preparation WHICH is the Fore-Sabbath", answers Mark 15:42! In fact says Mark, it was "the Fore-Sabbath ... since the Preparation had begun" or "because it was the Preparation which is the Fore-Sabbath".

Can it be clearer? Indeed, John does make it still clearer. With two things in the verse in the very near vicinity.

John describes the Passover BONE-DAY graphically like nowhere in the whole Bible it is graphically described as the BONE DAY in and of the Last Passover of Yahweh SUFFERING of Jesus the Christ of God prophesied and promised.

And John describes the Passover BONE DAY of Jesus Christ in unmistakable terms of honour and respect, in worship of Christ in his Goings Through Last Passover Suffering INTO "In-Between-Sabbath" INTO rest in the SANCTUARY of the SHEKINAH OF THE ALMIGHTY in the grave of the mighty and rich, the lowly Jesus' new grave no man has been laid in, HEWN OUT OF ROCK, on "great day of sabbath", "on the fifteenth day of the First Month", "according to the Scriptures." "And the Rock was Christ."

Jesus' BONE DAY <<fell not by itself>> on "that day being great day of sabbath"; it fell "on the fifteenth day of the month" because "PROCLAIMED BONE DAY" on God's command, and "the First Sheaf" to the pre-determinate Council of the LORD Almighty, was "brought in" and was "laid in rest" ... "WAVED, BEFORE THE LORD". Leviticus 23:9,10; 21,22; 11.

Shalom Gerhard, nope, you have it wrong. Mark 15:42 is "prosabbaton," and this can be PRO or PRIOR to either a weekly sabbath OR a "megas" day Sabbath (Feast Day). Both the weekly (7th day) and "megas" Feast days are sabbaths, and the day prior is the "preparation." Your doctrine has Yeshua dying on Thursday (the prosabbaton/preparation of the Passover), and then AFTER sunset, on the NEXT day after His death (that is the day BEFORE the weekly Sabbath-prosabbaton), they go to Pilate and ask for His body, and Pilate is "amazed" that He was already dead (Mark 15:44). Then, in Mark 15:46, the day after He died (according to your timeline), they take Him down from the Cross, and then all night, and all the next day, they wrap Him in linens so that at 3 in the afternoon, the day AFTER He died-almost 24 hours, you have Him being "enclosed" in the tomb by the stone being rolled over the entranced. Your doctrine Gerhard is not right at all, and you have to basically take a "literary phenomenon" in just about everything you explain, to get it to all work out. Why don't you keep it simple, and believe what truly happened. They were HURRIED to get Him OFF the cross BEFORE the High Day Sabbath began, and as those women who were out there with them WATCHING as the stone was rolled over the entrance, RETURNED, and AFTER this High Day Sabbath, went out on Friday, bought spices, prepared them, and then RESTED on the weekly Sabbath in obedience to the command. This is the ONLY logical and reasonable way to explain what happened. Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

 

[ImAHebrew]

...is wrong. "the day, was great, of that sabbath" of the Passover. 'ehn megaleh heh hehmera ekeinou tou sabbatou'

Shalom Gerhard, is not that what I said? The Sabbath of the Passover (the 15th day of the 1st month) was that "megas" day (John 19:31), just like the Last Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is that "megas" day Sabbath (John 7:37). Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

 

[ImAHebrew]

They can be eaten, but unleavened eaten.

Shalom Gerhard, why do you have such a hard time in answering a simple question? Forget about the leavening, what has to happen BEFORE any eating takes place (Leviticus 23:14)? It is very obvious why you refuse to answer this simple question, because the simple answer PROVES the Passover of the 14th day WAS the weekly Sabbath for the Children of Israel to be EATING the "parched corn" and "green ears" on the morrow AFTER the 14th day Passover (Joshua 5:10-11). The "parched corn," and "green ears' could ONLY be eaten AFTER the Sheaf was waved, and the OFFERING offered (Leviticus 23:14), and this occurred on the morrow AFTER the weekly Sabbath, not the morrow after the "megas" Sabbath of the Feast. That would have had them eating on the morrow AFTER the morrow, not on the morrow AFTER the Passover. Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

 

[AFrazier]

Shalom AFraizer, a point well taken, and one that i tried in vain to make myself. The problem I have is, even though the documented or historical practice in counting from the morrow after the Sabbath was starting the count from the High Day (Megas) Sabbath, I do not agree with this "tradition." As you know, I believe the count must start from the morrow of the WEEKLY Sabbath, as Joshua 5 indicates (they were eating from the produce of the land on the morrow after the 14th, on the 15th day of the 1st month, NOT the 16th).

One of the arguments that "traditionalists" have brought forth in debunking a separate Sabbath that fell during Passion Week, is that a "megas" Sabbath, which John spoke of in John 19:31, would only be a "megas" Sabbath IF the 15th fell ON the weekly Sabbath. My whole contention is that the "megas" day, which John says was a Sabbath, fell by itself from Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset, giving a "work" day that fell BETWEEN the two Sabbaths.

Now, I would like to ask you the same question I asked Der Alter (which he has failed to address on two occasions - Post #777 & Post # 1179). Is the "megas" day that John refers to in John 7:37, a "megas" day because it is a FEAST day (the LAST day of the Feast), or because this Feast day ALSO fell on the weekly Sabbath, in the way traditionalists think what happened in John 19:31?

Please note that Yeshua's half-brothers (James, Joses, Simon, & Judas - Matthew 13:55), did not believe in Him (John 7:5), and challenged Him to reveal Himself "openly" at the Feast of Tabernacles (John 7:2-4). Yeshua goes up to the Feast "in secret" (John 7:10), and about half way through the Feast, He went into the Temple and taught (John 7:14). Then we come to John 7:37. In it we find out several things, it is the LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles, AND it is ALSO that "megas" day of the Feast. So my question to you AFraizer, is this LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles, that "megas" day, a "megas" day BECAUSE it was the LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:36, Leviticus 23:39, Numbers 29:35), or because this Last Day of the Feast fell on the weekly Sabbath, like traditionalists think happened in John 19:31?

Is not this LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles, just like the FIRST & LAST days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, "megas" days, all on their OWN, making them Sabbaths (for that Sabbath was a "megas" day)? Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

My position is that the "high day" was on the "sabbath," and not a "high sabbath." If the 16th, which was first fruits and the waving of the sheaf in first century practice, fell on the sabbath, then that sabbath would be a high day.

All this debating over something that was how it was is what's creating this unnecessary confusion. How someone chooses to interpret when or how the count should start is irrelevant to how it was counted historically. They counted from the 16th in Jesus' day. That's a fact of history. I've provided documentation to substantiate this practice. No one holding a contrary point of view can do the same.

 

[Jan001]

Now I see...you are block copying from websites and posting it here. Also, YOU or whoever wrote the above is adding words to scripture that are not there. The earth passing away is NOT The Temple. All has not been accomplished yet since Yeshua has not come a second time yet. I also see what you did in Matthew 24, you skipped verses to try and make your point. If you read it ALL, you will see that they asked Him 2 questions in one sentence, yet Yeshua answered them in 2 SEPARATE answers. "Tell us, when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" So the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD but it was not the sign of His coming nor or the end of the world. He answered those questions SEPARATELY.

Is ANYTHING you post actually what you wrote or is this all stuff you copied and post as your own?​

I do not block copy things from other websites unless I link to the original sites.

Yes, there were two questions and two separate answers. The end of the Jewish temple world was in 70 A.D.

Matthew 24:34
I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away · until all these things take place. mounce

Mark 13:30
I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away · until all these things begin to take place. mounce

Luke 21:32-34
Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all has taken place. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. “But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare; rsv
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1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world as though they were not absorbed in it. For the form of this world is passing away. mounce​

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these events happened to them as examples, but were written down as warnings for us (in this generation), on whom the end of the ages has come. mounce

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; what is old has passed away; behold, what is new has come! rsv
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The heaven and earth of the Jews passed away in that generation. The Jewish temple world passed completely away in 70 A.D.

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[Jan001]

Do you think they checked when they went into the synagogue?

Would you, if you were an unconverted Gentile, ever go into a Jewish synagogue during the time period when that generation of Jews lived?

Acts 16:1
Paul went · also to Derbe and to Lystra; and there was a certain disciple (Christian) there named Timothy, the son of a converted Jewish woman (Christian), whose father · was a Greek. mounce

Acts 17:1-11 The leaders of the Jews did not want anyone to preach about Jesus Christ and they made their position very clear.
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[Jan001]

Other than Scripture? Yes, people do all kinds of things, even when they are wrong. THE Sabbath day is only on the 7th day. You and others can call Sunday the Sabbath day, but that does not make it so...

It makes it their Sabbath/Rest day if they so choose.

We Christians do not live under the old covenant. For some Christians under the new covenant today, sabbath means rest.

You can believe and say whatever you want to say, but some Christians today do call Sunday their Sabbath/Rest day. You cannot change this incontrovertible fact.

I don't think that God cares what you or they call Saturday, the seventh day of the week. It is Sunday, the first day of the week that is important for us Christians to observe under Jesus Christ's new covenant.

I have nothing more to add to this discussion.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

The heaven and earth of the Jews passed away in that generation. The Jewish temple world passed completely away in 70 A.D.

The earth did not pass away, neither for Jews or Christians or anyone else. Again, that was not the sign of His coming. [Staff edit].

 

[Jan001]

Shalom Jan001, so IF they re-build the temple, the Old Covenant will still be "ready to vanish away?" Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.

The NT writings were originally written to benefit/help the 1st Century Christians and so it is irrelevant if the Jews do rebuild the temple in the future. The Old Covenant became obsolete (no longer relevant) when it vanished away in 70 A.D.

Hebrews 8:13
In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. rsv


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Regarding Abraham and calling Him a Hebrew; James states that God first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people (Abraham was chosen) for His name. Abraham was a Hebrew/Semitic Gentile before he was taken out of the Gentile peoples by God to become the father of God's people who became known as the Israelites and then later as the Jews.

Acts 15:13-20
After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brethren, listen to me. 14 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, as it is written,
16 ‘After this I will return,
and I will rebuild the dwelling of David, which has fallen;
I will rebuild its ruins,
and I will set it up,
17 that the rest of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
18 says the Lord, who has made these things known from of old.’
19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, 20 but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood. rsv​

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[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

It appears that your belief has the Sabbath of the Feast of ULB (the 15th) and the weekly Sabbath falling on the same day,

P-e-l-e-a-s-e?! not so! On consecutive days!

BURIAL day on the feast or first day of ULB (the 15th) !
RESURRECTION day on the day after, only sometimes on the Sabbath OF THE LORD; usually not!
"THREE days thick darkness" despite, GOD rules ALL. No sun no moon no stars ruling days or days or nights, or months or seasons or years, but Jesus CHRIST! CHRIST THE ROCK, CHRIST THE CLOUD, CHRIST THE LIGHT ---and Christ the Dark, the JUDGE, the Destruction and the Destroyer of the destroyers of the earth.
"THREE DAYS" the God-given and therefore eschatological imperative WHOLE AND WHOLENESS of the "three days and three nights" of the "THEE DAYS", "on the third day" of, "Christ according to the SCRIPTURES, ROSE!"
Rose: First-Sheaf-Waved, First-Sheaf-Revealed, First-Sheaf-before-the-LORD, First-Sheaf-Shaken, as shook heaven and earth "when there came a great earthquake", "when God EXALTED and SEATED and RESTED Him UP at the Right Hand of God : IN HEAVENLY MAJESTY!"

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

you have to put ALL of the Scriptures together to get it right.

[Staff edit].
Jesus did not rise from the dead on the phantom fourth day of the Wednesday crucifixionists. The three days thick darkness did not have one daylight day extra in between for human emergency or negligence, but "this that Selfsame Whole-day BONE-DAY-IN-BETWEEN" of God's Preparedness and Destination, when they rested Him in the sanctuary of his tomb prepared for HIM, "before the LORD", "in the shadow of the Almighty."

 

[Jan001]

Shalom Jan001, again, thank you for the detailed response. So, you are in agreement that Timothy's parents did not circumcise him, and that Titus was not circumcised. Yet, you feel Paul was compelled to circumcise Timothy so that he could bring Timothy with him to convert Jews, but was not compelled to circumcise Titus because of ??? Seems to me that Paul became a little confused as to why he would be circumcising anyone, if we follow your analysis.

You can take this to the bank. Paul realized that many would think that Timothy was not circumcised BECAUSE his father was a Gentile (Greek), and Timothy, more than likely was NOT circumcised BECAUSE his father was a Gentile (Greek), so Paul circumcised Timothy for ONLY one reason, he was a Jew, not a Gentile. Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.​

Acts 16:1
Paul went katantaō · de also kai to eis Derbe Derbē and kai to eis Lystra Lystra; and kai there was eimi a certain tis disciple mathētēs there ekei named onoma Timothy Timotheos, the son hyios of a converted pistos Jewish Ioudaios woman gynē, whose father patēr · de was a Greek Hellēn. Mounce
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Timothy's mother whose nationality was Jewish converted to Christianity before she married her Christian husband whose nationality was Greek and then they conceived Timothy. That is why Timothy was not circumcised. Both his parents were Christians before he was conceived. Christian boys are not circumcised for a religious reason. 1 Corinthians 7:18, Colossians 3:11

Timothy's mother was an Israelite/Jew by nationality and his father was a Gentile/Greek by nationality, but because both of them converted to Christianity, they are Christians and so their nationalities do not matter to any persons who are under the new covenant law of Jesus Christ.

However, the Jews who still practiced Judaism made a huge distinction between Jews and Greeks and so these Jews who still practiced Judaism would not associate with any Gentiles/Greeks unless they were devout converts to Judaism.

Matthew 15:22-28
And behold, a Canaanite (GENTILE) woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” 23 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26 And he answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly. rsv
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The Jew named Jesus equates the Gentiles to dogs.

However, after Jesus' new covenant was meditated by His death on the cross, His kingdom was open for all peoples from all nations.

Matthew 28:18-20
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” rsv​

Galatians 3:28
Now there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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As for the Gentile Titus, it seems that he became a Christian during Paul's mission to the Gentiles. The problem was that some false brethren (Jews who had become Christians) had come down from Judea to Antioch and they had started preaching to the Gentiles that the Gentiles had to become Jews before they could be saved. These false brethren were troublesome for Paul's and Barnabas' ministry to the Gentiles. Acts 14:24-28 through Acts 15:1-5

Galatians 2:2-4
I went up by revelation (to Jerusalem ; and I laid before them (but privately before those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 4 But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage— 5 to them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. rsv​

 

[Der Alte]

The root of the 'omer count argument on here actually started because I pointed out that the evidence for the "sabbath" aspect of the 15th is demonstrated in the count from the 16th. Pentecost is counted from the morrow after the sabbath. And since the documented practice was to count from the 16th, that necessarily makes the 15th a sabbath, albeit of a holiday variety. Whatever the holy convocation was or was not called, in practice it was treated as a sabbath.
Just food for thought.

My contention is that 1st/7th ULB are not called Sabbaths because the "work" of preparation and cooking food was specifically permitted. Otherwise everything else was observed as on a Sabbath. Therefore there was only one The Sabbath in passion week the weekly Sabbath. Here are two excerpts from the Jewish Encyclopedia Passover article. "Sabbath occurs 9 times in this article but neither 1st/7th ULB are called Sabbaths.

PASSOVER (פסח; psh Aramaic, פסחא ; psha hence the Greek Πάσχα).
By: Emil G. Hirsch
The festival commemorates the deliverance of Israel's first-born from the judgment wrought on those of the Egyptians (Ex. xii. 12-13; comp. Ex. xiii. 2, 12 et seq.), and the wondrous liberation of the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage (Ex. xii. 14-17). As such, it is identical with the Mazzot (hmtzth, Ex. xii. 17; hn hmtzyth , Lev. xxiii. 5-6) festival, and was instituted for an everlasting statute (Ex. xii. 14). Lev. xxiii., however, seems to distinguish between Passover, which is set for the fourteenth day of the month, and hn mstzwth (the Festival of Unleavened Bread; ἑορτή τῶν ἀζύμων, Luke xxii. 1; Josephus, "B. J." ii. 1, § 3), appointed for the fifteenth day. The festival occurred in Abib (Ex. xiii. 4; Deut. xvi. 1 et seq., where the New Moon is given as the memorial day of the Exodus), later named Nisan, and lasted seven days, from sunset on the fourteenth day to sunset on the twenty-first day; the first and the seventh days were set aside for holy convocation, no work being permitted on those days except such as was necessary in preparing food (Num. xxviii. 16-25). During the seven days of the festival leaven was not to be found in the habitations of the Hebrews (Ex. xii. 19, xiii. 7). Leaven was not to be eaten under penalty of "excision" ("karet"; Ex. xii. 15, 19-20; xiii. 3; Deut. xvi. 3), and the eating of unleavened bread was commanded (Ex. xii. 15, 18; xiii. 6, 7; xxiii. 15; xxxiv. 18; Lev. xxiii. 6; Num. xxviii. 17). On the second day the omer of new barley was brought to the Temple (Lev. xxiii. 10-16; comp. First-Fruits).
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According to the Samaritans, the offering can take place only on Mount Gerizim (see Aaron ben Elijah, "Gan 'Eden," Eupatoria, 1866, s.v. "Inyan Pesaḥ"; Geiger, in "Z. D. M. G." xx. 532-545; Ibrahim ibn Jacob, "Das Festgesetz der Samaritaner," ed. Dr. Hanover, Berlin, 1904). The Samaritans consider the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread as two distinct festivals. The Sabbath is not suspended by the Pesah offering (ib. p. 24). The custom among the Karaites corresponds to that of the Samaritans (see Judah Hadassi, "Eshkol ha-Kofer," § 202). On the 15th of Nisan, which is the "hag ha-mazzot" ("haj al-fatir"), no manner of work is permitted by the Samaritans, even cooking being prohibited; in this they are stricter than the Karaites, who permit the preparation of food (Aaron ben Elijah, ib. s.v. "Inyan Ḥag ha-Mazzot"). Processions are arranged on Mount Gerizim on this holy day (Petermann, "Reisen im Orient," i. 287; see also "Jour. Bib. Lit.," 1903). The 'Omer day does not fall on the second day (16th of Nisan), but on the Sunday after the Sabbath in the festival week.
PASSOVER - JewishEncyclopedia.com​

 

[Der Alte]

. . .
Now, I would like to ask you the same question I asked Der Alter (which he has failed to address on two occasions - Post #777 & Post # 1179). Is the "megas" day that John refers to in John 7:37, a "megas" day because it is a FEAST day (the LAST day of the Feast), or because this Feast day ALSO fell on the weekly Sabbath, in the way traditionalists think what happened in John 19:31? ...

If you have a verse or 2 which you think proves your argument show your hole card. Show us all how you think it is a megas day. I'm not here to play 20 questions