At Twilight

At Twilight

Sh’mot 12:6
⁶It shall be your for examination until the fourteenth day of this month; the entire congregation of the assembly of Israel shall slaughter it in the afternoon.

When Yeshua participated in the Pesach ceremonies with His disciples, He celebrated Israel's deliverance from Egypt. Centuries after that deliverance, He took common food – unleavened bread or matzah and festival wine – and distributing them as spiritual food, he vested these Pesach symbols with enhanced significance giving much additional cause for gratitude and thanksgiving.

Taking a look at our timeline, Yeshua ate the Pesach before the Pesach lamb was to be slain. This was necessary so the talmid'im would understand the events that were to follow. This year Yeshua was to be the fulfillment of the Pesach Festival. This teaching session would show His Talmid'im that He was the true Pesach Lamb.

Let's take up our study on the Day of Preparation.

Wednesday
Pesach
Preparation Day Abib 14 Chametz is removed from the house this night in preparation for Passover.
Yeshua has Pesach Seder with disciples — Yochanan 13:1
Yeshua predicts His betrayal — Yochanan 12:21
Judas leaves to betray Yeshua — Yochanan 13:30 (Chametz among disciples is removed)
Yeshua goes to Gethsemane — Yochanan 18:1
Yeshua goes before Annas — Yochanan 18:13
Yeshua goes before Caiaphas — Yochanan 18:24
Yeshua in the Hall of Judgment before Pilate — Yochanan 18:28
Barabbas released — Yochanan 18:40

Fast-day of the first-born. Soferim 21
6 am — Yeshua declared King of the Jews by Pilate — Yochanan 19:14

9 am — Yeshua crucified — Mark 15:25
First Daily Sacrifice — Sh’mot 29:39

12 pm — Darkness over the earth until the 9th hour — Mark 15:33
Second Daily Sacrifice — Sh’mot 29:39
(3 pm sacrifice moved to 12 pm because of the Pesach-offering)

3 pm — Yeshua Dies — Yochanan 15:34
Passover sacrifices begin in the Temple — Sh’mot 12:1-6
Curtain of the Temple torn from top to bottom — Mattit'yahu 27:51
Holy dead are raised to life — Mattit'yahu 27:52-53
Bodies removed from the cross in preparation for the High Sabbath — Yochanan 19:31
Yeshua laid to rest in the tomb — Yochanan 19:32

The lamb was killed literally "between the two evenings". The hours of the crucifixion of 9 am to 3 pm were the hours which fulfilled "between the two evenings".

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