The Gospel According to St. Mark

Chapter 14

ALABASTER

• The Greek word alabastron or alabastos meant a stone casket or vase, and alabastites was used for the stone of which the casket was made. This stone was usually crystalline stalagmitic rock or carbonate of lime, now often called oriental alabaster, to distinguish it from gypsum.

Passover

• I. Name and its Signification -- The Hebrew word Pesach pasach, to pass through, to leap, to halt

• Passover• It signifies the paschal sacrifice, by virtue of

which, according to the divine appointment, the passing over, or saving, was effected (Ex 12:2.1, 27, 48; 2 Chron 30:15).

PASSOVER

• 1. Pecach and Matstsoth: The Passover was the annual Hebrew festival on the evening of the 14 th day of the month of 'Abhibh (Abib) or Nisan, as it was called in later times. It was followed by, and closely connected with, a 7 days' festival of matstsoth, or unleavened bread

• (from International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1996 by Biblesoft)

PASSOVER

Pecach mitsrayim: The ordinance of pecach mitsrayim, the last meal in Egypt, included the following provisions:

• (1) the taking of a lamb, or kid without blemish, for each household on the 10 th of the month;

• (2) the killing of the lamb on the 14 th at even; • (3) the sprinkling of the blood on doorposts and lintels of

the houses in which it was to be eaten; • (4) the roasting of the lamb with fire, its head with its legs

and inwards-the lamb was not to be eaten raw nor sodden (bashal) with water;

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• (5) the eating of unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

• (6) eating in haste, with loins girded, shoes on the feet, and staff in hand;

• (7) and remaining in the house until the morning;

• (8) the burning of all that remained; the Passover could be eaten only during the night (Ex 12:1-23).

Passover

• Tradition, however, interprets the phrase between the two evenings to mean from afternoon to the disappearing of the sun,

• the first evening being from the time when the sun begins to decline from its vertical or noontide point towards the west;

• and the second from its going down and vanishing out of sight, which is the reason why the daily sacrifice might be killed at 12:30 P.M. on a Friday

The Almighty

• Isa 46:9-11• 9 Remember the former things of old,For I am God, and

there is no other;I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning,And from ancient times things that are not yet done,Saying,'My counsel shall stand,And I will do all My pleasure,'

• 11 Calling a bird of prey from the east,• The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.• Indeed I have spoken it;I will also bring it to pass.• I have purposed it;I will also do it.

Judas

• John 13:27

• 27 Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly