Mark 14:12 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"The 'sedar' meal was the night of HIS death.
Christ died on the cross at the hour of the slaying of the lambs at the Temple.
The meal was a 'clearing of the house' before the sedar. A 'friends' meals.
The sedar meal was Friday night.
I've seen lots of mistakes on websites. Good thing it doesn't pertain to salvation!
Forgive me...
Luke 22:7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
Either the lambs were sacrificed and the seder celebrated two days, or the Gospels contradict each other.
John of Damascus, An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV)
John 6:48 For when He was about to take on Himself a voluntary death for our sakes, on the night on which He gave Himself up, He laid a new covenant on His holy disciples and apostles, and through them on all who believe in Him. In the upper chamber, then, of holy and illustrious Sion, after He had eaten the ancient Passover with His disciples and had fulfilled the ancient covenant, He washed His disciples' feet in token of the holy baptism. Then having broken bread He gave it to them saying, Take, eat, this is My body broken for you for the remission of sins. Likewise also He took the cup of wine and water and gave it to them saying, Drink ye all of it: for this is My blood, the blood of the New Testament which is shed for you for the remission of sins. This do ye in remembrance of Me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the death of the Son of man and confess His resurrection until He come.
Cyprian of Carthage, The Epistles of Cyprian, Epistle 75
For the faith of the sacred Scripture sets forth that the Church is not without, nor can be separated nor divided against itself, but maintains the unity of an inseparable and undivided house; since it is written of the sacrament of the passover, and of the lamb, which Lamb designated Christ: "In one house shall it be eaten: ye shall not carry forth the flesh abroad out of the house..
Hilary of Poitiers,On the Trinity (Book X)
That we may understand what was the cause of His sadness, let us see what precedes and follows this confession of sadness: for in the Passover supper our Lord completely signified the whole mystery of His Passion and our faith.
Gregory Nazianzen, St [325-389 AD], Oration 40
Again, He gave the Sacrament of the Passover to His Disciples in an upper chamber, and after supper, and one day before He suffered; but we celebrate it in Houses of Prayer, and before food,(g) and after His resurrection...
John Chrsytotom Homily 83 on the Gospel of Matthew
For after having shown His own strength, then at once He yielded Himself. But John says, that even to the very moment He continued to reprove him, saying, Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss? Luke 22:48 Are you not ashamed even of the form of the betrayal? Says He. Nevertheless, forasmuch as not even this checked him, He submitted to be kissed, and gave Himself up willingly; and they laid their hands on Him, and seized Him that night on which they ate the passover, to such a degree did they boil with rage, and were mad.
John Chrsytotom Homily 83 on the Gospel of John
But what is, 'That they might eat the Passover?' For He had done this on the first day of unleavened bread. Either he calls the whole feast the Passover, or means, that they were then keeping the Passover, while He delivered it to His followers one day sooner, reserving His own Sacrifice for the Preparation-day, when also of old the Passover was celebrated.
Augustine, Letter 55
" And the same evangelist who records that saying is to be understood as desiring to give emphatic testimony to this, when, speaking of the Lord as about to celebrate with His disciples the passover, at which He instituted the sacramental supper, he says, "When Jesus knew that His hour was come, that He should depart from this world unto the Father
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