Saturday in Lent

21Verse 21. Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22Verse 22. Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. 23Verse 23. When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. 24Verse 24. And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants. 25Verse 25. When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service. 26Verse 26. When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ 27Verse 27. you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

45Verse 45. Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him. 46Verse 46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47Verse 47. Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. 48Verse 48. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49Verse 49. But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50Verse 50. You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” 51Verse 51. Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation, 52Verse 52. and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one. 53Verse 53. So from that day on they plotted to kill Him. 54Verse 54. As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples. 55Verse 55. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover. 56Verse 56. They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?” 57Verse 57. But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.