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Passover Timing Shows The Supper's Weight
- The Passover context makes this Thursday moment decisive: Jesus times the meal at the start of Unleavened Bread when the Passover lamb is central.
- He prepared a room amid 2.5 million pilgrims and the temple's two-hour lamb slaughter window, showing this supper's significance.
Secrecy Was To Preserve The Meal
- Jesus gives clandestine instructions to Peter and John to protect the meal from disruption, indicating strategic planning.
- He used vague code words because Judas was seeking a private place to betray him and Jesus refused to let that ruin the supper.
Jesus Passionately Longed For The Supper
- Jesus 'earnestly desired' the Passover, using intense Greek terms (epithumia/epithumeo) to express passionate longing.
- That passion explains why he protected the meal from Judas and Satan to ensure it occurred.