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PREPARATION FOR PASSOVER, NOT A SATURDAY SABBATH
DIR By: doug
Date: March 30, 2026, 2:30 am
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I will show how the preparation in John 9:31 was for the
Passover sabbath day, not the weekly Saturday sabbath.
I will break this into sections and combine verses from all four
gospel accounts.
JESUS BEFORE PILATE
[John 19:4 KJV] "Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith
unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know
that I find no fault in him."
[John 19:14 KJV] "And it was the preparation of the passover,
and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold
your King!" ************ Preparation was a day before a sabbath,
It entailed getting ready for the sabbath and doing all
necessary work. The preparation of the Passover here is for
Nissan the 15th, the feast of unleavened bread. The feast of
unleavened bread was from Nissan the 14th until the 21st. The
14th was when they sacrificed their lamb. This was the first day
of the feast. The 15th was the start of seven days of eating
unleavened bread. It is important to know that the entire feast
of unleavened bread, from the 14th thru the 21st, was called
Passover ******* [Luke 22:1 KJV] "Now the feast of unleavened
bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover." ********* The
preparation before the weekly sabbath was a Friday. It is said
that the preparation here in John 19:14 is Friday's weekly
preparation for the next day's sabbath.
THE CRUCIFIXION
[John 19:17 KJV] "And he bearing his cross went forth into a
place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the
Hebrew Golgotha:"
[John 19:18 KJV] "Where they crucified him, and two other with
him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst."
[John 19:31 KJV] "The Jews therefore, because it was the
preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on
the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,)
besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they
might be taken away." ************** John removes any ambiguity
of this preparation being the Passover and not the weekly
sabbath. Jesus was on the cross, his body died at 3PM, before
sunset. A Jewish day is from sunset to sunset (Leviticus 23:32),
so what day is this? With a Friday preparation and crucifixion
we would have this timeline:
Thursday sunset until the next sunset is Friday. Christ is said
to crucified on Friday. Christ's body dies at 3PM before sunset,
so it's still Friday.
THIS DAY WASN'T A SATURDAY SABBATH
[Matthew 27:57 KJV] "When the even was come, there came a rich
man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus'
disciple:"
[Matthew 27:58 KJV] "He went to Pilate, and begged the body of
Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered."
[John 19:40 KJV] "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it
in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is
to bury."
[Luke 23:54 KJV] "And that day was the preparation, and the
sabbath drew on." ********* Joseph claims the body in the
evening after sunset. This is Friday's sunset, so it is NOW
SATURDAY. If this is a Saturday, then it's the sabbath, so how
could it be said that the sabbath "DREW ON" if it was the
sabbath already? This day couldn't be a Saturday sabbath. The
preparation of John 19:14,31 was for the Passover, not the
Saturday sabbath.
Here is a summary
[John 19:14 KJV] "And it was the preparation of the passover,
and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold
your King!" ******** This was when Christ was before Pilate,
which I believe was a Thursday. It says plainly it was the
preparation for the passover, not the weekly sabbath.
[John 19:31 KJV] "The Jews therefore, because it was the
preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on
the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,)
besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they
might be taken away." ************ This is the day Christ was
crucified, which I think was a Thursday. John says it was a high
day sabbath.
A sabbath was a holy convocation, in which, no work was to be
done.
Saturday sabbath was a holy convocation ************* [Leviticus
23:3 KJV] "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is]
the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
[therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your
dwellings."
The first day of the feast of tabernacles was a holy convocation
************** [Leviticus 23:6 KJV] "And on the fifteenth day of
the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD:
seven days ye must eat unleavened bread."
[Leviticus 23:7 KJV] "In the first day ye shall have an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein." **********
the first day of the feast was a holy convocation sabbath.
John says it was the preparation. A preparation was the day
before a sabbath, in which, all work was to be completed, It
occurs typically before the weekly Saturday sabbath. The day
Christ was crucified was Nissan the 15th, the first day of the
feast of unleavened bread and therefore a sabbath, a holy
convocation. This day was said by John to be preparation.
There was another preparation day.
[Matthew 27:57 KJV] "When the even was come, there came a rich
man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus'
disciple:"
[Matthew 27:58 KJV] "He went to Pilate, and begged the body of
Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered."
*********** A Jewish day runs from sunset to sunset. Jesus was
crucified Thursday and Jospeh begged Jesus's body at even.
Thursday was over and it's now Friday. It is now preparation day
for the Saturday sabbath. This is confirmed by this verse
*********** [Matthew 27:62 KJV] "Now the next day, that followed
the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came
together unto Pilate," ********** the next day, Saturday, that
followed the day of preparation, Friday, the chief priests and
Pharisees came unto Pilate.
Thursday, the day of the crucifixion, was preparation for the
first day of the feast of unleavened bread.
Friday was preparation for the Saturday sabbath.
In conclusion, John 19:14 says it was preparation for the
Passover, not the weekly sabbath.
Jesus was crucified on Thursday and his body died at 3PM. Jesus
died before sunset.
Joseph took his body and laid it in the tomb after sunset. After
sunset makes it a Friday.
This Friday was the preparation for the next day's weekly
Saturday sabbath.
Thursday was the preparation for the same day first day sabbath
of the feast of the unleavened bread.
Words have significance in scripture, and are given by a God of
detail and wisdom, using every jot and title to his glory. Two
little words, "drew on", enables us to refute the teaching that
the preparation in John 19:14,31 was for a Saturday sabbath.
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