A Very Important Day!

A Very Important Day!

About 3500 years ago (approximately 1500 B.C.), through Moses, God delivers the Israelites from captivity from the hand of the Egyptians, who were the world ruler of that time. The Egyptians made life very bitter for them as slaves. (Exodus 1:8-14) Who are the Israelites? By a simple explanation, they are the lineage of Isaac, the son of the prophet Abraham, whom God loved very much.

God rules over Egypt with many miracles and wonders, and gives the Israelites laws they must keep. One of these laws is the feast of Passover. It is a day the Israelites must commemorate with appreciation, so that they may remember the day God delivered the Israelites from Egypt, from slavery. (Exodus 12:1-14) This day of deliverance occurs, according to the Jewish calendar, on the 14th of Nisan. This time it falls on Thursday, April 2, 2026.

How is this date calculated in our time?

I am not an expert on this subject, but relying on the knowledge of the Holy Scripture and of the calendar that I have, I wish to explain briefly how this is calculated. For some reason this knowledge appears to everyone as mysterious and quite incomprehensible. And it must be admitted that, for someone who has no knowledge at all, it really does seem complicated.

Just as the earth's orbit around the sun is calculated according to a certain rule, there are also certain rules for calculating the time of the moon. Moreover, these time systems in the heavens continue their courses unerringly. (Genesis 1:14) And I cannot pass on without pointing out this too: let us not expect anyone to determine this day exactly to the hour, to the minute. Besides, no one knows for certain in which year Jesus was killed either. Although we cannot know exactly in which year Jesus died, we know exactly that month and day, that is, the time when God brought the Israelite out of Egypt, out of slavery. And since Jesus the Messiah wished us to commemorate this day, we too wish to celebrate this day on a general date, that is, at a time like the one the Israelites of that time and Jesus the Messiah celebrated.

In the times of the Holy Scripture records the Israelites used not the solar calendar like us, but the lunar calendar. For them the month of Nisan had to be accepted as the first month of the year. For God had delivered them from slavery from Egypt in exactly that month, and had told them to accept that month as the first month of the year. (Exodus 12:2) This had to be celebrated on the night of that day, that is, on exactly the 14th of the month. (Exodus 12:6; Numbers 28:16) In some of the calendars we use, the new moon is generally shown as a dark black round shape. This is a day on which, contrary to the full moon, the moon is not seen at all. That is, according to us, whatever day the new moon for the month of Nisan falls on — which generally coincides with the month of March — the day the moon first begins to be seen after that day means, for the Israelites, the first day of the month of Nisan. In short, when exactly 14 days are counted after the new moon, according to our present calendar we arrive at the Israelites' 14th of Nisan. Of course there is also this, which we must keep in mind: as in the solar calendar, so in the lunar calendar there are times in certain years when gaps must be filled. For instance, like the February of the calendar we use having 29 days every four years. Since I am not an expert on this subject, I write to you in the way I myself learned and understood. Again, to explain it simply: when calculating each of these days, that is, the 14th of Nisan, let us take care that it be after the day on which the moon appears dark in the calendar, after March 21, the time when day and night are equal — otherwise it means we are making a mistake. For example, in the year 2008 just such a situation occurred. In that year there is a new moon on March 7 and one on April 6. If we were to accept March 7, 14 days later we arrive at exactly the 21st of the month, and then perhaps we may be making a mistake by celebrating this day a month early. In this case the day after April 6 as the new moon may not mean the first day of the month of Nisan according to the lunar calendar. The moon must probably have been balanced in order to adjust the time according to the sun. In any case, because of these additions and balancings, I say that day can never be exactly to the minute, to the day, a year, that is, in the sense of 365 days. God too knows that it is so. What is important is not the minute, the hour and the figures of this day, but its meaning. Since on the matter of time everyone makes up something according to his own head, I too try to make simple explanations, as easily understandable as possible, so that we may not remain ignorant on this subject. To what degree I succeed is something left to your appreciation.

Setting out from the information I indicated above, my calculation of arriving at March 24 in the year 2005 was also according to this system. For in the year 2005 the new moon fell on March 10. As I said, the new moon means a time when the moon is not seen at all. According to my researches, in Israel the days were counted from the time the moon first begins to be seen. This generally happens one day later. So then that day means, according to the Jewish calendar, the 1st of Nisan. According to this rule, by counting 14 more days after the new moon, it should not be hard for us to calculate the 14th of Nisan.

Relying on this principle, if we set about calculating on which dates this day will fall in the coming years, it comes out exactly thus. For instance, since there is a new moon on March 29 of the year 2006, so then the day after that means the 1st of Nisan according to the Jews' calendar. So then if March 30 is the 1st of the month, or when we count 14 days after March 29, according to our calendar April 12 becomes the Jews' 14th of Nisan. You too can easily find these dates, either over the internet or from most calendars. From now on these years should be, in order, exactly thus:

April 12, 2006 Wednesday; April 2, 2007 Monday; March 21, 2008 Friday; April 9, 2009 Thursday; March 29, 2010 Monday; April 17, 2011 Sunday; April 5, 2012 Thursday; March 25, 2013 Monday; April 13, 2014 Sunday; April 3, 2015 Friday; March 23, 2016 Wednesday; April 11, 2017 Tuesday; March 31, 2018 Saturday; April 19, 2019 Friday; April 7, 2020 Tuesday; March 27, 2021 Saturday; April 15, 2022 Friday; April 4, 2023 Tuesday; March 24, 2024 Sunday; April 12, 2025 Saturday; April 2, 2026 Thursday; March 22, 2027 Monday; April 9, 2028 Sunday; March 29, 2029 Thursday; April 16, 2030 Tuesday… come to such years and days.

This is how I have understood these things according to the Holy Scripture. By this I do not mean how the lunar calendar is calculated, but that those days must be celebrated at certain times. This too must without fail be stated. Alongside our many errors, on this matter too, with the claim of keeping exactly the right day, no one should necessarily say “I am the most correct.” I must state again: however much we value these things, what is important is not the date, the hour, the minute of that day, but always the value we give to its meaning, coming from the heart. Otherwise, it is a great probability that many, like me at one time, may also have made a mistake on this matter.

Here I need to emphasize one thing. According to the Jewish calendar the days changed at 6 p.m. That is, not at 00:00, midnight, as we are accustomed. And the Holy Scripture was written according to this understanding. Some may be surprised at these matters. Just as with measures of length and weight, on the matter of time too there are differences. For this reason, for example, on March 17, 2018 the new moon occurred at exactly 14:14 and 19 seconds. Since, according to the lunar calendar, the first day of the month of Nisan began at 6 p.m. in the evening, in some Jewish calendars, accepting March 17 as the 1st of Nisan, they take March 30 as the basis for the 14th of Nisan. Until now I have never calculated this reckoning looking at the exact hour, and I cannot even say whether this is a mistake of mine. For this reason there are those who in the year 2018 count March 30 / the 14th of Nisan, who sometimes determine the date in a manner I cannot explain even in this way. The dates indicated above for the future may also need to be corrected according to this information, but I do not do it, because to know the hour of the new moon, and to know in which part of the world that hour is, may sometimes be impossible for us. For this reason, taking only the new moon as the basis as a day, without looking at its hour, and accepting the following day as the 1st of Nisan, and celebrating as in the table of dates indicated above, should not be wrong in my view. And if it is wrong, may God forgive us; seeing our sincerity on this matter, may He pardon us.

What is all this to us? Are we Israelites or Jews?

First it is necessary to emphasize this truth. Let us not forget that whatever God did, and to whomever He said whatever through His prophet servants, He in fact did and said to all people. We cannot say, “God then spoke only with the Israelites, or spoke with the Arabs, or spoke with the Greeks, I am none of these.” For that moment those people may belong to this or that nation. In His relationship with us, God is not a God who looks at our nationality, our color, our language, our sex. His words are words that all people must read, understand, and apply for their salvation. If God chose a nation so that it might be an example to all the nations on earth, and wished by this means to fulfill His purpose, then I say let us not cling to these thoughts of nationalism, which serve nothing but senseless enmity. (Deuteronomy 29:14) For the language, color, race, nation and sex we possess by chance, by birth, are not things to which God gives any importance at all.

What is this Passover? Who had to celebrate it?

As explained above, the feast celebrated on the day the Israelites were delivered from slavery in Egypt was called Passover (also known among the people as Easter). This feast had its rules. This subject begins to be mentioned in chapter 12 of the Torah's book of Exodus and is written going into its details. On the night God killed the firstborn of all the Egyptians, He did not touch the Israelites. They had to slaughter the lamb they were to eat at the feast of Passover and roast it on the fire. Only as specific to that time, so that the firstborn of the Israelites would not be killed, they had to smear the blood of the lamb on the upper lintel and the frames (doorposts) of the door, so that the destroying angel coming would not strike their firstborn too. (Exodus 12:21-23) With this and similar miracles their faith too was being tested. They had to eat this meal in haste, clothed and girded. This too was so that they might commemorate that day as if living it. For on the morning of that day they had come out of Egypt, out of slavery, in haste.

Without going into more details, in short, all Israel had to keep this law or feast. A foreigner could not keep this law nor eat of that meat. But if a foreigner wished to celebrate this day, first all the males had to be circumcised, and after that he and his family could eat of this meat. In Exodus 12:43-44 it is written thus:

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: “These are the rules of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat the Passover meat. But the slaves you have bought may eat of it after being circumcised.” And in the 48th verse:

If a foreign guest among you wishes to celebrate the feast of Passover, first all the males in his household must be circumcised; then he may join the people of Israel like one of the local people and celebrate the feast. But no uncircumcised person shall eat the Passover meat,” says God.

Did all the Israelites have to eat of the meat of this Passover celebration?

Yes, all of them, all Israel. The priest, the high priest, the tribe of Levi, and the poorest belonging to the most insignificant tribe — all Israel had to eat of it. God says, “The whole assembly of Israel shall celebrate the feast of Passover,” in Exodus 12:47. On the contrary, whoever deliberately did not eat of it, this meant for him being cut off from his nation. (Numbers 9:1-13)

This law was applied for more than about 1500 years. In our time there are also Jews who still apply it, who do not believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

I said those who do not believe Jesus is the Messiah. Will the one who believes Jesus is the Messiah not celebrate this feast? This is, anyway, the main idea of our whole subject.

The Passover sacrifice of that time pointed to the body of Jesus the Messiah, which he gave as a sacrifice, as a ransom. (1 Corinthians 5:7)

A short time before his death, Moses said clearly about Jesus the Messiah: “The LORD your God will raise up for you from among you, from your own brothers, a prophet like me. Listen to him.” (Deuteronomy 18:15)

In the Gospel's book of John, in 1:17:

“The Holy Law (the sharia) was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah,” it is written.

Why did Moses liken himself to Jesus and not to so many other prophets?

Because Moses had mediated in the work of delivering those people from slavery from Egypt. Jesus, on the other hand, mediated in the work of delivering us human beings from the death that comes upon us because of our sins, since we cannot keep those commandments bound to the holy law. Through His prophets God emphasizes anyway that those laws in the holy law pointed to Jesus. The one, that is, Moses, delivered from slavery to man; the other, that is, Jesus the Messiah, delivered from slavery to death. In John 3:16:

For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. So that none of those who believe in Him should perish, but all attain everlasting life.

Muslims and Jews generally do not believe the above verses. These behaviors of theirs serve no purpose other than to cause God's wrath. Muslims say they believe this way relying on the saying in the Quran, “God has not taken a son.” (For example, Surah Al-Ma'idah (4) 171-172.) In fact with these verses the Quran wishes to emphasize that it opposes the Christian world, which has a wrong faith, worshiping Jesus with a worldview, with a fleshly Father-Son relationship. For the Christians worship Jesus as God. And they do this using the father and son comparisons that occur in a spiritual sense in the Gospel. And yet God speaks of His creatures in the heavens too as sons of God. Indeed He used this expression for all the sinful Israelites as well. In the book of Deuteronomy 14:1 it is clearly written:

“You are the sons of the LORD your God,” it is written.

God's emphasizing His closeness to His creatures with these verses does not require us to worship them and to put them in God's place! (Revelation 22:8-9)

While the Christian world goes astray on this matter, the Muslims too, saying we will do exactly the opposite, have fallen into another error. By means of these pages I am only trying to make heard a mere mote of the truths about the religions. For this reason, here, without going into details, I will take up some of the religions and pass on, touching on the surface of their absurdities about this day.

On the day the Passover sacrifice is slaughtered, Jesus is killed. This is exactly the day the Israelites came out of Egypt. The 14th of Nisan, sometimes, if it coincides, when it is exactly the full moon.

Jesus said: “Unless you eat the body of the Son of man and drink his blood, there is no life in you.” (John 6:53)

What did this mean?

Through the sin that came from Adam, which passed to all human beings — if it can be likened, like a contagious disease — and for this reason humanity became mortal. In the apostle Paul's book written to the Romans, in 5:12:

“Therefore, just as through one man sin, and through sin death, entered the world, so death too passed to all men; because all sinned,” it says. The Quran sheds an understandable and clear light on this subject. In Surah Al-Baqarah 38, after Adam's sinning, God's word to them is exactly thus.

“…all of you go down from here. (that is, they are expelled from paradise) Then a guide will come to you from Me. From now on, whoever goes in the footsteps of that guide of Mine, for them there is no fear,” by saying which God draws attention to the fact that for their salvation they must listen to that guide.

And in Surah Al-i Imran (3), verse 59: “In God's sight Jesus too is like Adam,” it says.

A similar verse also occurs in Surah Ta-Ha (the 20th surah), verse 122. We had emphasized a little earlier that Moses too said these same similar words. Moses had spoken of a prophet like himself.

All these prophecies and God Himself always pointed to a savior. Muhammad or no other prophet said that this savior was themselves. (Surah Al-Jinn (72) 21) We see that this is so only about Jesus the Messiah. According to the truths in the Quran, He is the only one who died and rose and lives in God's presence, and He Himself is the Messiah. (Surah Al-i Imran (3) verse 55.)

The sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah delivered us, all humanity, from the sin that passed from Adam and consequently from death. Of course the one who wished all this is also God. In Romans 5:19 and 6:10 and 23:

For just as through the disobedience of one man (Adam) many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one (Jesus the Messiah) many will be made righteous… For the death He (Jesus) died, He died to sin once for all… For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is everlasting life in our Lord (our teacher) the Messiah Jesus. (Hebrews 10:4)

For this reason we must value this day, the day of the death of Jesus the Messiah, in order to appreciate, to commemorate what God did for us, humanity. By doing this we will glorify not the Christian world but God.

On the last night Jesus the Messiah celebrated the feast of Passover, he took bread, said a prayer of thanks, broke it, gave it to his disciples and said: Take, eat, this is my body. He took a cup, gave thanks, and giving it to them said: This is for all of you. For this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for the sake of many for the forgiveness of sins. (Luke 22:14-20)

Do you remember that above Jesus said: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, there is no life in you. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life”? John 6:53-54

Again the bread eaten here and the sip of wine drunk have symbolic meanings. What is meant to be told is that the body of Jesus was sacrificed for our salvation, so that there might be everlasting life for all who believe. The word God, who cannot lie, said to Adam, “If you eat of this tree you will die,” could not be taken back. The just God could forgive Adam's transgression only if a flawless sacrifice, an atonement, exactly like Adam were paid. For this reason Jesus is likened to Adam in the Quran and the Gospels. When God created Adam, He created him flawless. Flawless, but with free will. Not only Adam, but His angels too, in the form of armies living in all the heavens, God created flawless but with a free will. For this reason not just anyone could sacrifice himself for Adam. Only someone flawless like Adam could do this. It is for this reason that Jesus has no earthly father and his birth too took place in the form of a miracle.

The holy books draw attention to the fact that He lived also in the heavens before being born and was even, as the first of those created, the spokesman of God. In John 1:1 and 14 it is written thus:

In the beginning was the Word (the Logos, that is, Jesus). The Word was with God and the Word was a god. (Many translations use the word God instead of god. In fact it is not wrong. Both are of the same meaning. But one must not do as the Christian world, which is in the passion of confusing it with the Almighty God.) (John 10:32-33) In the continuation of John 1:14 it says thus: The Word took on a body and lived among us. Here John clearly spoke of Jesus. We cannot take up many more proofs, because I take care to keep my writings as short as possible.

These days the Christian world, with rabbits and eggs, under the name of the feast of Easter, does everything far from Jesus' command. By now, from their chocolates to their candies, there are rabbits and eggs. Almost no one knows its meaning, and those who do know say it is a pagan custom. But we wish to celebrate this day in keeping with God's wish and Jesus' commands before his death.

Who may drink of the wine and eat of the bread?

The Israelites had to keep this feast called Passover in order to commemorate the day they were delivered from slavery. God wanted us to understand that this day pointed to a future event, that is, that the Passover sacrifice celebrated for hundreds of years was Jesus the Messiah. And of this sacrifice not only the Israelite but at the same time every circumcised male and his family could eat. Well, what did Jesus say? Who had to drink his blood and eat his flesh? Everyone. Did he separate a certain class? Yes. He rightly separated from one another those who believe and live worthily of this sacrifice and this salvation, and those who do not believe and turn their backs on a way of life worthy of this.

The Christian world — as they say, “they have wrung this business dry” — it is exactly so. They give of these symbols at all times and to everyone. Of course anyone who wishes to take, takes; this cannot be prevented. But just as the Passover sacrifice had its law, this too had its conditions. What were they?

In those times one was circumcised; now, in place of the circumcision of the body, there is Baptism, which means dying to our sins and rising again. That is, the circumcision of our hearts. Baptism too is a word, a proclamation, that, accepting that we are all sinners, turns us to repentance. We are all sinners, but the apostle John emphasizes that there is a limit to this too. In 1 John 5:17, by saying “All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin that does not lead to death,” he distinguishes sins too.

We all commit sin, but our sins that do not lead to death are not an obstacle to our taking of these symbols. If we are living a life worthy of God and of the death of Jesus the Messiah for us, our taking of these symbols is necessary and indeed obligatory. Not taking of the symbols means a great ill-manneredness and counting the sacrifice of the Messiah as nothing. Alongside this, on the contrary, as it says in 1 Corinthians 11:27: “Whoever eats the bread and drinks of the wine in an unworthy manner has committed a sin against the body and blood of the Lord.” In short, those who commit a sin that leads to death, even if they have been baptized, must not take of these symbols until they repent and correct themselves.

What are these unworthy things?

By now many things are not so hidden at all. Even the mafias gather in church while shedding the blood of many. Or soldiers' taking of these symbols and praying in church before fighting, before shedding the blood of many innocent people, does not make us say “these are worthy of Jesus' blood.” If in our knowledge we do not acknowledge God, if we are full of every kind of unrighteousness, evil, greed, malice, jealousy, the ambition to kill, strife, deceit, being ill-intentioned, gossiping, slandering, hating God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, producing evil, not listening to mother and father, without understanding, not keeping our word, devoid of love, merciless, having pagan habits; if, knowing that those who behave thus deserve death, we not only do them ourselves but also look with sympathy on those who do them, let us not see ourselves as worthy of Jesus' blood. (Romans 1:28-32) Jesus did not teach the doing of these anyway. To do these and still partake of those symbols can only be mockery, and one must not forget that it is written, “God is not mocked.” God does not see those who do this and similar works as worthy of taking of the symbols. Certainly, as it is written in the Gospel of John, it is certain that there are also sins that do not lead to death. About this too everyone must decide with his conscience, without deceiving himself. For, whether little or much, we all did and do these things. There is doing them always with desire and knowingly, as if having made them a profession, and there is doing them without planning, without knowing, unwillingly, with our foolishness of the moment, or being overcome by our feelings, and being repentant. Of these differences, the one clearly leads to death, while the other helps us to take refuge in God's mercy.

In this Christian religious chaos, the only ones I know who reject the symbols are the Witnesses. And in a sense I can find nothing else to say but: “This means that they do not accept this salvation.” According to them, Jesus' blood was shed as if only for the 144,000 persons who will live in the heavens!!! And with this belief they have forbidden these symbols to all their members. At the same time this means rejecting Jesus' blood. Again I will state, the Witnesses, as on this matter, so on many matters, do as they receive orders from their governing bodies. And they are obliged to do so; otherwise they are thrown out of that religion and no one speaks with them anymore!

Humanity is quite eager to become a robot. They too, with much boasting, show to their governing bodies the obedience that the soldiers, officials, police of every state are obliged to show. Let us not forget this too: people obey toward what is evil, but in doing a good thing they are very skeptical, slow and cowardly! By now they split hairs in doing what is good and right. Knowingly or unknowingly — only they themselves know — the Jews, for some reason, are quite delighted to put Moses, the Muslims Muhammad, the Christians Jesus, and the Witnesses their governing bodies, in God's place. Although all are thus, and give all the glory to these persons rather than to God, they also hate those who speak this truth! I do not know about the governing body, but if there is one thing I do know, it is that neither Moses nor Muhammad nor Jesus asked such a thing of anyone. If they loaded this yoke upon themselves, what can we say! But let us never forget: whomever we wish to please, whomever we fear most, from him too we will receive the recompense!

When is it to be celebrated?

In the late afternoon, after the sun has set (Exodus 12:8-10; Deuteronomy 16:6-7; Leviticus 23:5; Matthew 26:17-30), as Jesus commanded us, we must commemorate this day with appreciation. These may perhaps be subjects of which you who read these pages have no knowledge at all. But there is still time before you to make preparation and to comply with God's will and the warnings of all His prophets. Whatever you may have done until now, whoever you may be, of whatever language and nation you may be, of whatever age you may be, learning what God's will is, and celebrating this day together with the baptism that symbolizes repentance from your sins, by all means strive to show your gratitude and your faith by taking of the wine that calls to mind Jesus' blood and the unleavened bread that calls to mind his body. Show with your living and your thoughts that you are worthy of the Lord.

There is salvation in no one else. For there is no other name given among men under heaven by which we can be saved… Acts of the Apostles 4:12

When did Jesus last eat the Passover?

To this question everyone will generally answer, “the day before his death,” which, however, is wrong. Let us try to explain why it is wrong.

“You know that after two days the Passover will be, and the Son of man will be handed over to be crucified,” it says in Matthew 26:1.

“After two days was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.” Mark 14:1

“The Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching.” Luke 22:1

“For this reason Jesus, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, the village where he had raised Lazarus.” John 12:1

John's words seem to contradict almost all the translations in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. I wonder what John really meant there, or is there a translation error? Yes, it has been translated wrongly. Whereas Matthew and Mark say, “after 2 days the feast of Passover,” Luke says “the feast is approaching.” John, by saying “6 days before,” bewilders the readers. According to the Gospel in the original Greek texts, the following meaning should have come out of John's words: For this reason Jesus, 6 days before the Passover, came to Bethany, the village where he had raised Lazarus. Generally everyone says, “Well, what is the difference here?” The difference lies in the comma and changes the meaning in the sentence. Let me explain what I mean and I will also give an example. Jesus in fact comes to Bethany, the village of Lazarus whom he had raised 6 days before the Passover. When does he come? According to John's account in that sentence we do not know, he does not write it. John, looking at the event from another angle, tells it giving different details from the other gospels. That is, he means to say that 6 days before the Passover Jesus had raised Lazarus there; he does not mean to say “6 days remain to the feast of Passover.” Why should a single comma change the meaning so much? For example:

1- Be a man, do not be a donkey like your father.

2- Be a man like your father, do not be a donkey.

Please, when reading these 2 examples, read pausing at the commas, and you will see the difference. In one, the father becomes a donkey; in the other sentence, the father becomes a man. And it is purely the commas that do this. Of course the translator knows this difference. The sentence he constructed is either erroneous or a sentence constructed in keeping with wrong teaching and interpretations. But, just as in this example, the only problem is not the comma either. As will be seen in other verses too, there are erroneous translations made clearly with wrong teaching, under the influence of centuries of practices and interpretations.

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (or: the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread) the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to make preparation for you to eat the Passover meal?” (Matthew 26:17) In many translations, whether Mark or the other gospels, a wrong time has always been given. Some Holy Scripture translations have given a footnote, “from the original Greek texts the meaning ‘before’ comes out,” and they are right. In fact the translations should have been translated as before the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or the day before the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

And in John 13:1 it is clearly told that the meal they ate was before the feast of Passover. The translation and account here sheds a clear light on our whole understanding and is in harmony with all the gospels.

“The evening meal was going on, and the Devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, the thought of betraying Jesus.” John 13:2. The “evening meal” here clearly writes that that meal was not the Passover meal. We had read, anyway, a verse earlier, that “it was before the feast of Passover.”

By all this, what do I clearly mean?

The translations made relying on the understanding the Christian world has gained for us and on these interpretations are in the direction of our perceiving the last evening meal Jesus ate as the Passover meal. The proofs I will give in continuation will show that this is not so and absolutely cannot be so.

In a few places Jesus speaks to his disciples of how greatly he desired to eat the Passover meal together with them. (Luke 22:8; Luke 22:15) These words of his may leave on us an impression as if he had eaten it too on the last day. Whereas Jesus does not eat the Passover meal; in fact he is killed on exactly that day.

Let us look at the events following them in ordinary order. Jesus and his disciples go to a house to prepare the Passover. At the feast of Passover all the Israelite males had to gather in the place God chose, that is, in Jerusalem. After the sun set the sacrifices had to be slaughtered and everyone had to eat the Passover in his house. After 6 in the evening the 7-day feast also began. This meant that the first and the 7th day of the feast were days like the Sabbath day, or the day they also call the Shabbat day, on which daily work would not be done. (Leviticus 23:3-8) When we read the gospels anyway, we read that on the day Jesus was killed the religious leaders and the people were continually in a hurry. (John 19:31) If Jesus had eaten the Passover the evening before, the morning should have been the feast and no one could have been executed, just like the Sabbath, that is, the Shabbat days.

After the meal, while with his disciples in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus is arrested and is tried until morning. (Matthew 26:36; 27:1; Mark 14:32; 15:1) And in the morning he is taken to Pilate, and the officials do not go inside so that they may not become unclean and may be able to eat the Passover. (John 18:28) So then the Passover had not yet been eaten.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas and led him to the governor's residence. It was early in the day. They themselves did not enter the governor's residence, so that they would not become unclean and could eat the Passover meal. John 18:28; Matthew 27:1

Since that day, the day of Jesus' killing, was the day of preparation, it required them to hurry so that the corpses would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath day. (John 19:31; Mark 15:42-43)

In fact this feast, that is, the Passover sacrifice, celebrated for almost 1500 years, pointed to Jesus the Messiah. Look at what is written in Hebrews in the Gospel:

Since the law has not the substance but the shadow of the good things to come… it says in Hebrews 10:1, and again:

We, in keeping with the “will” of God spoken of here, have been brought into a holy condition through the body of Jesus the Messiah, offered only once. Hebrews 10:10

By all this, clearly, Jesus the Messiah had to die exactly on the 14th of the month of Nisan according to the Jewish calendar, because he himself was the Passover sacrifice. If it had been after the Passover meal, it would be Nisan 15, and then it was both the feast — and at the feast a person was not hanged — and the harmony of the whole Holy Scripture with the purpose of prophecy would be broken. (Deuteronomy 21:23; John 19:31)

In short, the meal they ate on the last night was not the Passover meal. There are many more verses, but at the very least many a translation error on this subject clearly does not accord with the events. We find the most correct and easy understanding in the translations in the Gospel of John. (13:1-2) Even those, however, can be interpreted wrongly.

From this example too it is understood: is not this counsel, given inspired by God's spirit, very fitting?

My son, if you accept my words, if you value my commandments and keep them in your mind; if you thus open your ear to wisdom, if you give your heart to becoming discerning; moreover, if you call understanding to your aid, if you cry out to discernment, and if you seek all these as you seek silver, and search for them as you search for a treasure, then you will understand what the fear of Jehovah (God's personal name) is, and you will find the knowledge of God. Proverbs of Solomon 2:1-5