The document provides background information about the biblical timeline of events known as the Passion Week, which spans from Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday. It discusses how biblical days were measured from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight as modern days are. The Passion Week occurred during the Hebrew month of Nisan/Abib, which included religious feasts like Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits. Key events took place on specific days that align to Wednesday evening through Sunday evening on modern calendars.

1. The Passion Week
Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday
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2. These lessons will synchronize and highlight the recorded events of the week of the
Passion of the Christ:
Matthew chapters 21-27
Mark chapters 11-15
Luke chapters 19-23
John chapters 12-19
The Passion Week

3. “Passion” can mean “a strong and barely controllable emotion.”
It also refers to the suffering and death of Christ.
Acts 1:3
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being
seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God …
The Passion Week

4. “And the evening and the morning
were the first day.”
Part One

5. It can be challenging to align biblical events to our modern calendar because of
the different way we designate a day.

6. Our new day begins at 12:00 midnight.

7. In the Bible, a day began at sunset – about 6 hours earlier.

8. “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
This explains the wording of Genesis 1:5:

9. Biblical and modern days overlap.

10. Biblical and modern days overlap.
By our thinking, the Sabbath Day is Friday evening to Saturday evening.

11. Each 24-hour period was divided into ‘watches of the night’
and ‘hours of the day’.

12. The daytime was divided into twelve hours commencing at dawn.
“Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?” (John 11:9a)

13. (These hours were not precisely 60 minutes long.
The first mechanical clock was not invented until the early 14th century.)

14. The first hour of the day was counted from about 6 AM to 7 AM.
The second hour concluded at 8 AM, and so forth.

15. Acts 2:15 [Peter said] For these are not drunken, as ye suppose,
seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

16. Acts 10:9 …Peter went up upon the housetop to pray
about the sixth hour …

17. Acts 10:3 [Cornelius] saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour
of the day an angel of God coming in to him …

18. The nighttime was divided into four “watches.”

19. The nighttime was divided into four “watches.”
The first from 6pm to 9pm

20. The nighttime was divided into four “watches.”
The second from 9pm to midnight

21. The nighttime was divided into four “watches.”
The third from midnight to 3am

22. The nighttime was divided into four “watches.”
The fourth from 3am to 6am

23. Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night
Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

24. The events of the Passion Week occurred in
the first month of the Hebrew year.
This was the time of Passover.
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the
month of Abib the LORD thy God brought
thee forth out of Egypt by night.

25. The name Abib was changed to Nisan after
the Babylonian captivity.
Esther 3:7
In the first month, that is, the month Nisan,
in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus,
they cast Pur, that is, the lot …

26. In the evening of Nisan 14, the
Passover Feast was eaten.
Leviticus 23:5
In the fourteenth day of the
first month at even is the
LORD'S passover.

27. The Feast of Unleavened Bread
began the following evening.
Leviticus 23:
And on the fifteenth day of the
same month is the feast of
unleavened bread unto the LORD:
seven days ye must eat
unleavened bread.

28. On the day after the weekly
Sabbath, the Feast of Firstfruits
was celebrated.
Leviticus 23:10-11
10 …then ye shall bring a sheaf
of the firstfruits of your harvest
unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf
before the LORD, to be accepted
for you: on the morrow after the
sabbath the priest shall wave it.

29. These special days correspond to our Wednesday evening to Sunday evening.

30. These special days correspond to our Wednesday evening to Sunday evening.

31. UP NEXT: Palm Sunday and the cleansing of the temple.