Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Passover and Christ's Crucifixion

 “John also records that the Last Supper occurred the day before Passover; thus the Savior was likely bound and crucified at the same time the Passover lambs were being sacrificed at the temple (see John 13:1). John also recounts that when Pilate ordered the soldiers to break the legs of those being crucified to hasten their deaths, the soldiers instead pierced Jesus’s side to make sure He was dead. Just as the lambs of Israel were sacrificed without breaking any bones, so the Son of God was sacrificed and the scriptures fulfilled: “A bone of him shall not be broken” (John 19:36; see also Psalm 43:20).”


David Rolph Seely and Jo Ann H. Seely, “Behold the Lamb of God,” Ensign, Apr. 2013, 48.

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