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The
Leviticus 23:4-5 - New International Version (NIV)
4 “‘These are the Lord’s
appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their
appointed times: 5 The
Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first
month.
Who appointed
these festivals (verse 4)?
When are the “sacred
assemblies” to be proclaimed (verse
4)?
Which festival
begins “at twilight of the fourteenth day of the first month” (verse 5)?
Exodus 12:1-14
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International Version (NIV)
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down
every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all
the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The
blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the
blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike
Egypt.
14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come
you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a
lasting ordinance.
Where were
Moses and Aaron when the Lord spoke to them (verse 1)?
In your
opinion, why was “this month” to be the “first month, the first month
of your year” (verse 2)?
Who is to take
“a lamb for his family, one for each household” (verse 3)?
Who is the
household that “is too small for a whole lamb” to share with (verse 4)?
What type of
sheep or goat is to be chosen (verse 5)?
When are the
lambs to be slaughtered (verse 6)?
What is to be
done with the blood (verse 7)?
What is the
meal to be that night (verse 8)?
How is the
meat to be cooked (verse 9)?
What is to be
done with any meat that is left over (verse 10)?
Why are they
to eat the meal “with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your
feet and your staff in your hand” (verse 11)?
What will the
Lord do that night (verse 12)?
What will be
the sign that, when the Lord sees it, the house will be passed over (verse 13)?
How shall this
day be celebrated (verse 14)?
7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb
had to be sacrificed. 8 Jesus sent Peter and John,
saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”
9 “Where do you want us to prepare for it?” they asked.
10 He replied, “As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water
will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, 11 and
say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room,
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 12 He
will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there.”
13 They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they
prepared the Passover.
14 When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15 And
he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I
suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until
it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and
divide it among you. 18 For I tell you I will not drink
again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them,
saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This
cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
What day came up (verse
7)?
Who did Jesus send to prepare (verse 8)?
How were they to know where the preparation was to take
place (verse 10)?
What were they to ask the owner of the house (verse 11)?
Where will they make preparations (verse 12)?
How did they find things (verse 13)?
When did “Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table”
(verse 14)?
In your opinion, why did Jesus eagerly desire to eat the
Passover meal with the apostles (verse 15)?
When will Jesus eat the meal again (verse 16)?
What did Jesus give (verse 17)?
When will Jesus “drink again from the fruit of the vine” (verse
18)?
What did Jesus say when He had given the bread to the
apostles (verse 19)?
What did Jesus say the cup was (verse 20)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, what is there about the first Passover in Exodus 12:1-14 that makes
Jesus eager to share it with His apostles in Luke 22:7-20?
In your
opinion, did Jesus eat the Passover with His apostles with His cloak tucked in
His belt, His sandals on His feet and His staff in His Hand?
Romans
3:20-26 –
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
20 For “no human being will be justified in his sight” by deeds
prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
21 But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been
disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, 22 the
righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who
believe. For there is no distinction, 23 since all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God; 24 they are
now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of
atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show
his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the
sins previously committed; 26 it was to prove at the
present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the one who has
faith in Jesus.
What will “no
human being will be justified in his sight” by (verse 20)?
Who attested
to “the righteousness of God” that has been disclosed apart from the law
(verse 21)?
What is this “righteousness
of God” through (verse 22)?
Who has sinned
and fallen “short of the glory of God” (verse 23)?
How are human
beings “now justified by his grace as a gift” (verse 24)?
How is the “sacrifice
of atonement by his blood” effective (verse 25)?
What had been done
in “his divine forbearance” with sins (verse 25)?
Who does God
justify (verse 26)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, how is the effect of the blood of Lamb on the doorframes to the people
inside the homes in Exodus 12:1-14 similar to the effect of the blood of Jesus
on those who have faith in Romans 3:20-26?
In your
opinion, what do we learn about Jesus’ statement in Luke 22:7-20 that “this cup is the new covenant in my blood,
which is poured out for you” from
the statements about sin and righteousness that Paul makes in Romans 3:20-26?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Leviticus, Exodus, Luke and Romans teach us about how the festival of Passover is related to the Lord’s Supper?
In your opinion, how can we, as Christians, proclaim the Passover today?
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