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 30:17–20For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
• Heb 9:13–14For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
• John 6:4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
• Exod 19:10Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
• Gen 35:2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
• John 2:13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• John 12:1Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
• Job 1:5It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
• John 5:1After these things, 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 8:1–12All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• John 2:6Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
• 1 Cor 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
• John 7:8–10You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
• Acts 24:18amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
• Exod 19:14–15Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
• Ezra 3:1–6When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
• John 18:28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
• Ps 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
• Num 9:6There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
• Exod 12:11–14This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
• 1 Sam 16:5He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
• Matt 26:1When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,
• Mark 14:1It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

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