John 11:55

As Passover nears, crowds go up to Jerusalem to purify themselves. The festival setting frames Jesus' coming sacrifice.

Cross-references · 25

• 2 Chr 30:17–20Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.
• Heb 9:13–14For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
• John 6:4Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.
• Exod 19:10Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
• Gen 35:2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
• John 2:13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• John 12:1Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
• Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
• John 5:1Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Neh 8:1–12At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
• John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
• John 2:6Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
• 1 Cor 11:28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
• John 7:8–10Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
• Acts 24:18At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia
• Exod 19:14–15When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
• Ezra 3:1–6By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
• John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
• Ps 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• Num 9:6But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
• Exod 12:11–14This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
• 1 Sam 16:5“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
• Matt 26:1When Jesus had finished saying all these things, He told His disciples,
• Mark 14:1Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.

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