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Hagiographic appeal of
"Remembrance" by Jehovah's
Witnesses
Jesus Christ ate
unleavened bread in the
Supper?
George Tsimbiridis

• 1. Extracts from the Watchtower, for the time of the Last


Supper
• 2. The claims of the Watchtower Society brief
• 3. The 14th of Nisan was a day of eating the Passover, or
preparation?
• 4. The Watchtower admits that the unleavened bread took
place on 15 Nisan
• 5. Jesus broke the law by eating unleavened bread earlier?
• 6. When the Watchtower consolidates two days ... one!
• 7. The "contaminated" spoil the plans of the Watchtower
• 8. 'to eat the Passover. " A phrase that contradicts the
Watchtower
• 9. The "first of unleavened bread" and the clash of St John
the Watchtower
• 10. The Watchtower aftoanaireitai a different interpretation
• 11. interpretative inconsistency Watchtower included what
the "Easter"
• 12. 'preparation' for what, when everything had occurred?
• 13. antitypiki The sacrifice he disagrees with the
Watchtower
• 14. What does the Watchtower for the exact time of the
Last Supper
• 15. When the sacrificed Paschal Lamb? morning or
afternoon?
• 16. 'Among the Evening'
• 17. passages that contradict the purposes for the time of
sacrifice
• 18. Historical evidence against the Watchtower

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With the present study we will try, very briefly, to demonstrate the fallacy of
Jehovah's Witnesses in the issue of the use of unleavened bread used in the
ceremony of remembrance, which is performed annually in the 14th the Jewish
month of Nisan, and which this year coincides with the 17th April. To
understand at what points are based and which parts of the Bible have been
misinterpreted, here immediately excerpts from various texts that will
comment, highlighting what they consider important.

1. Extracts from the Watchtower, for the time of the Last Supper
" When introduced. I have always kept Easter on 14 Nisan of the month
(Aviv), daily or near-full moon days, since the first day of every month (lunar
month) in the Jewish calendar was the day the new moon, as determined by
visual observation. Therefore, the 14th day of the month fell around the middle
of the lunar cycle. The date of Jesus' death proved in section JESUS
CHRIST (When he died) that was 14 to Nisan of 33 K.CH .... the night
before death was Jesus, observing the Passover, ate the last of the
Easter meal, and then established the Lord's Supper. Before you even
start dinner of Remembrance, was removed and the traitor Judas, according
to the memo, "it was night." ( John 13:30 ) Since the days of the Jewish
calendar the evening lasted from one day to evening the next day, the Lord's
Supper was celebrated and the 14 to Nisan, the evening Thursday, March
31 .... The Emblems. Mark tells the following on the bread that Jesus used
when it established the Lord's Supper: "As we continue to eat, took a loaf, said
a blessing, broke it and gave it to them and said: "Take this means my body".
(Mark 14:22 ) The bread was what they had for the Easter meal that Jesus
and students had just completed. It was unleavened bread , since there
must be no leaven in the homes of Jews during the Easter and related to
this feast of unleavened bread loaves "( Insight, Vol, page 707- 708).
" The annual celebration of the Lord's Supper (or memory) is the only party
with the mandate from the Bible to keep the Christians. Jesus established the
night of 14 Nisan AD 33, after celebrating the Passover. Before him there were
various kinds of food, used in the Passover meal. The description of Luke
says: "[Jesus] took bread, and gave thanks, cut unto them, saying, This is my
body a favor of you; that makes definitions given in remembrance of the mine.
Likewise the cup after edeipnisan, saying, This cup is the New Testament in
the blood I shed far in favor of you Luke 22:19, 20. God had directed them to
use the Jews 'unleavened bread' during Easter. (Exodus 12:8) So the
'loaves of bread' that was in front of Jesus was unleavened bread . It was
made of wheat flour without any salt or other flavoring, it represents the "bread
of sorrow ." (WT 01.07.1982, page 31)

2. The claims of the Watchtower Society brief


In these forms the Watchtower informs readers that:
a) Christ died on the day of the Jewish Passover that at the 14th Nisan,
b) The last supper, Christ the etelese evening prn his death, that at the
beginning of the 14th Nisan, in the darkness of this section,
c) The bread, which made him use the Christ and etelese the Memorial, or the
unleavened,
d) During the Passover, ie on 14th Nisan, there were allowed to be leaven,

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leavened bread that, in the homes of Jews and
e) With careful reading we see that the Watchtower, in this text, distinguishing
between days of Easter and the feast of unleavened bread seven days which
followed the next day.

3. The 14th of Nisan was a day of eating the Passover, or preparation?


All the above considerations we have to account, during our study. But beware
dear readers Watchtower trick to mislead the readers and the message that
Jesus actually made use of unleavened bread during the dinner. It says a
truth, to pass the error of her! The truth is that, on the day of Easter, there were
allowed to have leavened bread in the homes of Jews. This is because the
evening of 14th Nisan, began the so-called ' bedikat chametz '(search for
leavened) during which investigation the host, with a torch light, searched the
whole house and around it to detect any enzyme bread and the deportation.
The Watchtower ie, stating the truth, suggests that from the moment is was
forbitten in the 14th Nisan yeast and leavened bread, thus was used of the
unleavened bread ! And so arbitrarily draw the conclusion that " The bread
was what they had for the Easter meal that Jesus and his disciples had just
completed. It was unleavened bread , since there must be no leaven in the
homes of Jews during Easter (Insight, Vol, page 708).
But sadly mistaken fallacy the Watchtower, and unfortunately misleads and his
followers, because it hides them that the day of Easter, that is 14th Nisan, or
the days of unleavened bread PREPARATION days and NOT cooking, and
use them ! Day use and cooking, the unleavened bread or the day of Jesus
death, the 15th Nisan, as clearly stated in the Leviticus 23: 6 (in Heb.) " And
the fifteenth day is the same month, feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord
· seven days you eat unleavened bread " and into the NUM. 28: 17 (in Heb.)
"And the fifteenth day of this month so it is feast · seven days they shall
unleavened bread be eaten."! The 14th Nisan was named "Easter Friday" (
JOHN 19: 14, 31, 42) because it claims had to finish all the household and thw
woeship preparation, which required the Jewish law on Passover, unleavened
bread that the commission bread, the supply of lamb and other utilities.
And taking into account that the Easter use to celebrate on 15th Nisan, then
coinciding with Saturday, which - and the celebration - starting from the 6th
vespers of eve, this eve, was the 14th Nisan, also known as " Easter Friday
"because in its beginning, as stated, supply or manufacture in the houses of
lilacs unleavened Passover bread, whose consumption would begin by the 6th
vespers of Friday to Saturday, when was started the 15th Nisan, ie the first day
of the weekly celebration of Easter, which was called by this' feast of
unleavened bread unto the Lord " Leviticus 23: 6 (in Heb.).

4. The Watchtower admits that the unleavened bread took place on 15


Nisan
The Watchtower, in the forms will be set out, clearly says that the feast of
unleavened bread, was performed after the maintenance of Passover dinner
that started at the 15th Nisan.
" The first of the annual feasts, the feast of unleavened bread, was performed
immediately after the observance of Passover dinner on 14 month Nisan or

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Aviv. The feast of unleavened bread lasted seven days from 15 Nisan and
up to 21 Nisan. The first day that the celebration was Saturday which
followed the observance of Passover dinner. On the second day of the
celebration, on 16 Nisan, the Israelite high priest in the temple of Jehovah in
Jerusalem gave Him a dredge from the harvest neotherismeni krithis.-Levites.
23:11-16.
There is a historical afigisis for a 12-year child eferthi from Nazareth to
Jerusalem to celebrate Easter. This child was Jesus, the son of Mary. After
eighteen years, in 29 AD, this Israeli, who was now the Lord Jesus Christ
became the "Lamb of God," whitch symbolized the Passover lamb ( Luke
2:41-52; John. 1 :29-37 ). After three and a half years, actually sacrificed on a
wood on Golgotha, outside Jerusalem, Friday, 14 Nisan of the year 33 AD, the
evening that began on Friday the 15th Nisan, and together with it the
feast of unleavened bread , but Jesus himself did not participate in the joy
that characterized this case. He died and was buried." (Watchtower,
15.05.1980, page 8-9 )
" Easter - the first of the month Nisan Christmas - originally celebrated in
Egypt, fell on the 14th day of the month and involved the sacrifice of the
Passover lamb. (EX. 12:2-14; LEV. 23:5; DEUT. 16:1) The next day began
the eftaimeri feast of unleavened bread loaves , from 15 until the 21 th day
of the month. 16 Nisan was offering the first fruits of the harvest of barley."
(Insight, Vol.2, page 463)

5. Jesus broke the law by eating unleavened bread earlier?


After reading the above printed address two issues dear to them Jehovah's
Witnesses:
a) What were allowed to eat through all the time the seven-day feast the
Jews? " seven days you eat unleavened bread " Leviticus 23:6 (in Heb.) "
they shall be eaten seven days unleavened bread " Numbers 28:17 (in Heb.)
b) When the Watchtower puts Christ with his disciples to eat unleavened bread
in the 14th Nisan, ie BEFORE 15th Nisan , have everyone (according to
Leviticus 23:6 and the Numbers 28:17) broke the law God YES or NO? And
if the SAME WATCHTOWER, who believe and obey dear Witnesses,
confesses and proclaims that " Christ in perfectly fulfilling the provisions
of the Law ' (Insight, Vol.2, page 768) here how to fulfill the provision relating
to the eating of unleavened bread when using He and His disciples
unleavened bread for one day in advance of legal, a provision which is clear
to the Leviticus 23:6, and in the Numbers 28:17?
The Watchtower publications in the above states clearly that the feast of
unleavened bread began Friday evening, the 15th Nisan, the day after the
sacrificial lamb of Passover! That started the feast of unleavened bread, and
so ... the unleavened bread! Dear Jehovah's Witnesses texts speak by
themselves. Combine the Leviticus 23:6 to Watchtower 15.05.1980, page 8-
9 and Insight, Vol.2, page 463 and draw unforced conclusions: There is no
way either one in a million Christ broke the law and used unleavened bread
for the simple reason:
1) Because the God-man himself said: " Do not think that I came to destroy
the Law or the prophets · essential come to destroy, but to fulfill " (Matthew.
5:17), and
2) Because the use and consumption of unleavened bread began on the next

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day of his death, in the 15th Nisan!

6. When the Watchtower consolidates two days ... one!


The book of the Watchtower 'Insights 'analysis of these events as follows:
" Issues Related to the Time Sequence. The issue of contaminated gave
rise to the following statement: "The same did not enter the palace of the
governor, not to infection but they can eat the Passover ". (John 18:28) Those
Jews felt that they are infected if they enter a house National. (Acts 10:28)
This statement was made, but "early in the morning", so after having
held the Easter meal. It should be noted that, at longer times, throughout
this period, both days for Easter and the following feast of unleavened
bread bread-sometimes called "Easter". In view of this fact, Alfred
Enterschaim gives the following explanation: A voluntary peace offer was
Easter and another, mandatory, the day on 15 Nisan, the first day of the feast
of unleavened bread loaves. This second offer feared that the Jews could not
eat if they contaminate the courtroom Pilatou.-Temple, 1874, p. 186, 187.
"The first days of unleavened bread loaves. It is also an issue in relation to
the declaration in paragraph Matthew 26:17: " On the first day of unleavened
bread loaves students approached Jesus, saying : " Where do you want me to
prepare to eat the Passover ? "
The phrase "day" in this case could be attributed to "the day before".
Regarding the use of the first word of the original Greek text, a footnote in
subsection Matthew 26:17 in the New World Translation says : Or, "On the
previous". This version of the word first word followed by a general fall in line
with the concept and the performance of such pension in verses John 1:15,
30, that "there before me [not my first]". According to the Great Greek
Dictionary (of Liddell and Scott Publications ' I. Sideris , 1921, Vol. 3, p. 774) ,
the " first is oftentimes instead of the expected quondam". At that time, the
day after Easter had come to be generally considered as the first day of
the feast of unleavened bread loaves. Thus, the original Greek text, in
keeping with Jewish custom, leaving the margin was this question to Jesus on
the eve of Easter.
" Preparation. "In verse John 19:14, the apostle John describes as the final
part of the trial of Jesus before Pilate, saying : "He was not preparing for
Easter; was about the sixth hour [of the day, between 11: 00 am and 12 noon].
"This, of course, for after the Easter meal, which had eaten the night
before. Similar expressions are found in paragraphs 31 and 42. Here, the
word of the original Greek text translated "preparation" is the word Friday. This
word seems to indicate, not the day before the 14th Nisan, but the day before
the weekly Sabbath, which in this case was "high" that was only because
Saturday was the 15th Nisan, the first day itself feast of unleavened bread
loaves, but because it was a weekly Sabbath. This is reasonable since, as has
been said, the word "Easter" is sometimes used referring to the entire festival."
(Insight, Vol.2, page 615-616)
In the above text the Watchtower wants to avoid the pitfall of the phrase "They
led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium · and it was early · and they
themselves din not enter into the Praetorium, in order that they might not be
defiled, but they might eat the Passover." (John 18:28). This passage clearly
says that Easter is not even been committed, as the Watchtower teaches
falsehoods, but the Jews will eat it later in the evening of the day. So the

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Watchtower made in the following interpretive trick: In one consolidates the
two festivals with the same name, that the sacrifice of the lamb duly recorded
the 14th Nisan, and that of the feast of unleavened bread.
But as we saw in the first volume of 'Insight' Easter as clearly stated ONLY
the 14th Nisan and NO and the weekly feast of unleavened bread: "... during
the Easter and related to this feast of unleavened bread loaves (Insight ,
Vol.1, page 707-708). This goes to the readers the erroneous message that
the Jews, the Passover in which they wanted to attend and eat, is not known
legal Easter ethyeto the passover lamb, since this Passover was carried out in
the rule of the day, when the darkness of this section, but the meat of the
Pacific offers egenonto the first day of the weekly feast of unleavened bread,
that of Passover sacrifice of so-called Chagiga (see Numbers 28:18-24)!

7. The "contaminated" spoil the plans of the Watchtower


Good trick the Watchtower, which was probably intended to mislead the
readers and followers, but the authors of the text or are unaware of the
following, or have deliberately concealed the following:
1) Because the house of Pilate was not purified from yeast according to the
Deut. 16:4 , the ritual contaminate, whom by the entrance to the Praetorium
would contaminate the Jews, would last until the sun of the West only (cf.
Leviticus. 11:24, Numbers 19:7, Deut.23:11, etc.), but in the case of Easter
who was going dirty, had to postpone the celebration of Easter in a whole
month, according to the Numbers 9:6-11 and 2 Chronicles 30:2-3. So, if they
had already eaten at Easter in the beginning of the day, as claimed by the
Watchtower, then had nothing to fear if the contamination would last until
evening, when through a purifying bath would eliminate the contamination.
However there were still eat the lamb of Passover, which was to eat from this
the next hours, though by the entry they would contaminate, then they should
celebrate Easter a month later, for that reason they don’t enter into the
Praetorium.

8. 'to eat the Passover. " A phrase that contradicts the Watchtower
2) However, in order to be righteous with the Watchtower, we shall immediately
mention another one interpretation whitch is proposed in this incident. The
houses oy the gentiles were considered unclean due to the dominant opinion
that gentiles used to be buried in them the abortioned embryos. So the house
was as if by whose dead infected carcass, and the entrance to this the Jew
would contaminate him in the definition of the Numbers 19:14, not on a single
day, but for seven days during which contaminated was forbitten to him to eat
all of any sacrifice, so much that its Passover lamb (Numbers 9:6 onwards),
and in Chagiga , of salvation that sacrifice (Leviticus 7:20).
What then of the two cases is meant John when he says "in order that they
might not be defiled '? He means the prohibition of eating the Passover lamb
of 14th Nisan, or the sacrifice of the Passover Chagiga of the 15th Nisan? So
decisive point about whitch of the two sacrifice eating is mention here, is the
relevance of the text and ordinary meaning, which is used in the New
Testament the expression ' to eat the Passover . "
About the relevance of the text we must think that the Gospel of John was
written for christians of the gentiles, who had a hand knowledge on the Jewish
Passover lamb, but hardly had a closer knowledge regarding Chagiga. If we

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go further, we think that in the New Testament the word " Easter "and the
phrase "to eat the Passover" means the passover lamb, and only this:" The
first day of the unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus saying to him ·
where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover ? "( Matth. 26:
17), " And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb, was
being sacrificed, his disciples said to him Where do you want us to go and
prepare for you to eat the Passover? ... where is my guest room in whitch I
may eat the Passover with my disiples? (Mark 14:12,14), " and he sent Peter
and John saying: Go and prepared us the Passover that we may eat it ... and
you shall say to the owner of the house · The teacher says to you, where is the
guest room where I shall eat the Passover with my disiples? ... and said unto
them · With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I
suffer" (Luke 22: 8,11,15).
The same is ib force in the parallel phrases 'prepare the Passover ': 'And the
disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover .
"(Matthew 26:19) and " Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to
eat the Passover? ... and they prepared the Passover "(Mark 14:12,16 ),
"Go and prepare us the Passover that we may eat it ... and they went and
found everything just as he said unto them, and they prepared the
Passover." (Luke 22:8,13), " the Passover sacrifice " " And on the first day
of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb, was being sacrificed (Mark
14:12), " Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must
be killed (Luke 22: 7), " and gar the Passover for us our etythi Christ ( I Cor.
Q: 7 ) and ' keep the Passover '" the teacher says, my time ia at hand · I will
keep the Passover at your house with my disiples." (Matt. 26:18), "By faith
he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that he who destroyed
the first-born might not touch them" (Hebrews 11:28).
In this verse that "They led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium · and it
was early · and they themselves din not enter into the Praetorium, in order that
they might not be defiled, but they might eat the Passover." (John 18:28),
there is no extortionate reason to perceive the expression "to eat the
Passover " with a meaning different from the usual, so none can be no doubt
that ' to eat the Passover ' AND IN THIS VERSE ALSO , like all similar in the
New Testament as shown above, it means the eating of the Passover lamb in
the evening of 14th Nisan, and not another Paasover meal ( Chagiga ) as the
Watchtower misbelief teaches and mislead the readers.

9. The "first of unleavened bread" and the clash of St John the


Watchtower
In the phrase now "The first and of unleavened bread " (Matthew 26:17) the
disciples who came to Jesus and asked him where to prepare to eat for Easter,
the explaining of the Watchtower that the word 'first' is with the meaning of
'fore' with a large proportion is correct. Because if we take the phrase 'first of
the unleavened bread "or in Mark 14:12 "And the first day of unleavened
bread, when the Passover lamb, was being sacrificed, They say to him his
disciples · Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the
Passover?" by the meaning as the day of slaughter of the Paasover lamb, ie
14th Nisan, the day Thursday, then the same day is the Last Supper, the day
and 15th Nisan Friday, celebrated the crucifixion, which is in direct conflict with
John, which says clearly that the days of the death of Jesus was the

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"preparation of the Pasover "(John 19:14), ie Friday 14th Nisan, so the Last
Supper took place the previous day, Thursday 13 to Nisan!

10. The Watchtower recant herself with her own different interpretation
While the Watvhtower made a serious interpretation on the phrase 'first of the
unleavened bread' in the sequel to convince readers that Christ ate
unleavened bread at the last supper, says the following: " At that time, the
Easter day had come to be generally considered as the first day of the
feast of unleavened bread loaves. So, the original Greek text, in keeping
with Jewish custom, leaving the margin this question was asked to Jesus on
the eve of Easter . "
Having made a serious attempt to interpret the ' first of the unleavened bread '
as 'fore' as to say 'eve of unleavened bread' to show that the question of
students on the preparation and eating of the Passover came Christ at the eve
of the feast of unleavened bread and lamb slaughter of the Passover, so the
word 'first' leave from the Friday of the 14th Nisan and transferred to the day
before, namely in the Thursday of the 13th Nisan, however, reverts back to the
same places that 'first of unleavened bread' in the 14th Nisan, confusing it with
the date of Easter and the slaughter of the lamb when he writes: "At that time,
the day after Easter had come to be generally considered as the first day
of the feast of unleavened bread, bread !" Interpretive Babel!
The specific claim of the Watchtower, that Easter Day, the 14th that Nisan, was
regarded as the first day of the feast of unleavened bread lacks seriousness
and is clearly copying. It is simply an interpretative maneuver to convince
readers that Christ that day, 14th Nisan, used unleavened bread at his last
dinner. The Old Testament states clearly as we have said in the beginning of
our study, the duration of the use of unleavened bread and cooking, are limited
to SEVEN (7) days from the 15th to Nisan and 21th Nisan : Leviticus 23:6 (in
Heb.) "And pemptin tenth day is the same month, feast of unleavened bread
unto the Lord · seven days you eat unleavened bread "and Numbers 28:17
(in Heb.) "And pemptin tenth of the month so it is feast · seven days they
shall unleavened bread be eaten." ! Unto the Deut. 16:3 (in Heb.) clarifies that:
"Seven days shall eat unleavened bread with IT (ie Easter), ie in a period of
SEVEN (7) DAYS IS INCLUDED THE EASTER! So the Watchtower teaching
that Jesus and the disciples ate unleavened bread on 14th Nisan, extends the
period of seven (7) days, as mandated by the Law of God to use and eat
unleavened bread, to eight (8)! And in this case how the Watchtower believes
that "Jesus perfectly fulfill the provisions of the Law" (Insight, Vol.2, page
768), when clearly and flagrantly violated the law, by making use of
unleavened bread in an entire day before legal? Don’t you believe, dear
Jehovah's Witnesses that the Watchtower owes you an adequate answer to
that?

11. Watchtower’s interpretative inconsistency for what included the


"Passover"
We carry on, dear readers, reading the Watchtower book 'Insight':
" On the morning that Jesus was tried and prosachthike before Pilate, the

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early morning hours of 14 Nisan (the day of Easter had begun the previous
evening) , the verse John 19:14 says: "It was the preparation of the
Passover'. (KJ, Da, NWT) Some commentators believe that this means "
preparation for the Passover, and some translations render the paragraph so. (
AT, We, CC ) However, this creates the impression that they were not
celebrating yet Passover, while the narratives of the Gospels clearly
show that Jesus and the apostles were celebrating last night. (Lu 22:15;
Matt 26:18-20; March 14:14-17) Christ perfectly fulfill the provisions of Act ,
including requiring the observance of Easter on 14 Nisan. (On Lef; 12:6 23:5;
see Passover). The day of the trial and death of Jesus could be considered "
preparation for the Passover " in the sense that a preparation for the feast of
unleavened bread eftaimeri bread that started the following day. Due to the
proximity of the two festivals calendar, this entire period is often called
"Easter". The next day, the 14th Nisan was always Saturday, and even in 33
CE The 15th Nisan fell to normal Saturday, which made the day "great" or
double Saturday" (Insight, Vol.2, page 768).
Observe in the above text, in order that the Watchtower to overcome another
obstacle (this referred to the John 19:14 , that the days of the trial of Jesus by
Pilate or the "preparation of the Passover"), so therefore 'cloud the issue'
and to mislead readers by taking in another interpretive maneuver. The
Watchtower explains that the phrase " preparation of the Passover " is not
ralated to the Passover sacrifice and eating the lamb, ie the 15th of Nisan, so
as 'preparation' to mean here the 14th of Nisan (because if this is such a
fundamental shots the theory of the Watchtower about the slaughter and
eating of the Passover lamb by Christ and his disciples at the beginning of
the 14th Nisan , in the darkness of this section), but Watchtower explains that
the word "Passover" here means the entire seven-day feast of unleavened
bread, 'because the narratives of the Gospels clearly show that Jesus and the
apostles were already celebrating Easter on the previous night '!
Therefore, in order to persuade the readers that Jesus made use of
unleavened bread at the dinner of remembrance, [" It was unleavened bread
, since there must be no leaven in the homes of Jews during the Easter and
related to this Day loaves of unleavened bread " (Insight, Vol.1, page
708)], resorting to the following trick: When the Watchtower interpretation
serves to treat the word "Passover", the 14th Nisan and the Feast of
unleavened bread as a separate holiday, and when the serving interpretation,
consolidates both holidays (ie 14th Nisan and seven-day feast of unleavened
bread) as Easter! Because he wants to convince its readers that in the phrase
"preparation of the Passover" as "Passover" does not mean the 15th Nisan
but the entire eight-day "due to the proximity of the two festivals calendar,
throughout this period is often called "Passover" (Insight, Vol.2, page
768).
In the continuation of our study we mention that there were such a unification
of the two holidays, but not where our interests interpretation be regarded as
Passover only the 14th of Nisan and where we do not interpretation serves to
consolidate the holidays, so be regarded as Passover throughout the eight-
day, so be overlooked and relegated the relevance of the text.

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12. 'Preparation' for what, when everything had occurred?
Let us note, however, dear readers, the following: We find ourselves at the
moment, which is the fate of Jesus under Pilate, who sat on the throne of the
judiciary, sign the sentence decision. The great and epoch-making moment
John identifies with the words "And it was the preparation of the Passover, and
about the sixth hour" (John 19:14). So if in the phrase "preparation of the
Passover" understood here that wants to spend the Watchtower to its readers,
that "The day of the trial and death of Jesus could be considered
"preparation of the Passover" in the sense that it was a preparation for
the seven-day feast of unleavened bread that started the next day" then
for what kind of preparation the Watchtower is trying to convince us that is
mention here?
Or let’s ask the question in other way, for what kind of preparation speaks
here, John? If all preparations relating to the celebration of Passover had
already been done (either as we consider the seven-days passover of
unleavened bread, either we consider the eight-days passover including the
and 14th Nisan)! And the removal of the leavened bread of the houses had
been done, and unleavened bread making and baking them had been done (if,
according the Watchtower everything, Christ and His disciples ate
ALREADY THE Passover early in the morning , ate unleavened bread at
that last supper), and the commission, the slaughter and cooking of the lamb
and they have occurred! Each household and worship preparation, which
required the Jewish Law for Passover was completed. What other
preparation is left to do ?

13. The antitypiki sacrifice disagrees with the Watchtower


But how different would things, whether in the phrase "preparation of the
Passover" understood the eve of Passover, that is 14th Nisan, in which the
Jews used to sacrifice the passover lamb! In that day and hour coincided at
the Lamb of God (cf. John 1:29 "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away
the sin of the world) to take the path to Golgotha. And this interpretation is also
reinforced and from one another verse of John in the 19:36 "For these things
were done that the scripture should be fulfilled A bone of him shall not be
broken". The command not to break the bones aimed at the passover lambs of
14th Nisan. That and this command also was applied to Jesus by not crushing
the legs on board the Cross (cf. John 19:33 "But when they came to Jesus
and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs") this is a true
testimony to the Evangelist, that the (on 14th of Nisan, in which the
Passover Lamb was being sacrificed), crucified Jesus is in history the
realized true antitypon of the Old Testament sacrificial lamb of Passover !

14. What does the Watchtower teach about the exact time of the Last
Supper
Let's read a few yet excerpts from the book 'Insight':
" If the Jews thought that the day began after sunset and ended the day with
the sunset, the 14th of Nisan began after sundown. Thus, Passover was
celebrated in the evening after the 13th Nisan . Since the Bible explicitly
states that Christ is the Passover sacrifice (1Ko 5:7) and ate the Passover
supper the night before the killing, must have died on 14 Nisan, rather than
15, to be performed accurately temporal side of the depicted type, or

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otherwise the shade provided by Nomos.-Heb 10:1.
Laws that were concerned the celebration Him. Every home should
have chosen a sound-year male sheep or goat. This was brought home in the
10th day of Aviv and lasted until the 14th , when the slaughtered and shook
his blood with a bunch of hyssop in the jambs and the lintel of the door of the
house in which we will eat (not in threshold where the blood will be pressed).
What means the expression "between the two nights"?
The Israelis had anticipated the day from one sunset to another. Therefore,
the Passover day began with the sunset at the end of 13th day of Aviv (Nisan).
The animal should be slaughtered "between the two evenings". (Ex. 12:6)
Opinions differ as to the exact time means with this expression. According to
some scholars, and the Karaites Jews and Samaritans, this is the time
between sunset and the deep twilight. On the other hand, the Pharisees and
Ravinistes thought that first night was when the sun began to tilt, while the
second is the real west. Because of this latter view, the rabbis believed
that the lambs are slaughtered at the end of 14 days, not in principle, so
that the Easter meal eaten in fact the 15th Nisan .
In this regard, teachers and Kyle Delic said: "From very old have different
views prevailed among the Jews regarding the exact time of course. The
Ampen Ezra agrees with the Karaites and the Samaritans considering that the
first night is the time when the sun sinks below the horizon and the second
time it has fallen quite dark. In this case, the gap "between the two evenings"
would be from 6:00 until 7:20. . . . According to the rabbinical view, the time
the sun began to tilt, ie from 3:00 until 5:00, was the first night, while the west
is the second. So the space "between the two evenings" would be from 3:00
until 6:00. Modern performers have held very well in favor of him Ampen Ezra
and the custom adopted by the Karaites and Samaritans' .- Scholiologio of the
Old Testament (Commentary on the Old Testament), 1973, Vol 1, The Second
Book of Moses tyy, P 12. DAY; see.
From the above, and in particular on several cuts as the verses Exodus 12:17,
18, Leviticus 23:5-7 and Deuteronomy 16:6, 7, the weight of evidence that
favors the expression "between the two evenings" applicable to the
period between sunset and darkness. This means that ate Easter dinner
long after sunset on Nisan 14, as needed appreciable time to kill, to
scratch and well-bake the animal . The verse Deuteronomy 16:6 instructs: "
We must sacrifice the Passover night , when the sun sets . " Jesus and his
disciples ate the Paschal meal "as night fell." ( Mar. 14:17; Matt 26:20 )
The Judas went out immediately after the celebration of Easter, " and it was
night . " (John 13:30) While Jesus celebrated the Passover with the 12
disciples, must have been enough debate, and also Jesus must have had
some time to wash the feet of the Apostles ( Ioa 13:2-5 ). Therefore the
establishment of the Lord's Supper event took place quite late that night"
(Insight, Vol.2, page 613-614).

15. When was sacrificed the Passover Lamb? Morning or afternoon?


And we got, dear readers, at the critical point of our research. With the help of
God we will try to give an adequate response to the time when exactly was
sacrificed the passover lamb. The Watchtower Society tells us, and indeed
so it is, that the scholars have proposed two explanations relating to the exact
time of Passover sacrificial lamb. One interpretation suggests the time

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between 6:00 - 7:20 pm , at the beginning ie the 14th Nisan, a proposal that it
considers proper and the Watchtower has been accepted and the other
interpretation suggests the period between 3:00 - 6:00 pm something
considered wrong and has refused. Certainly in the inquiry so far we have
shown that the interpretation of the Watchtower on the time of slaughter lamb
of Passover and the simultaneous use of unleavened bread cooking, and,
contrary to God's command on the use and eating of unleavened bread and
cooking, the next day of Jesus' death, ie in the 15th Nisan, as clearly stated in
the Leviticus 23:6 (in Heb.) "And the fifteenth day of the same month, is the
feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord · seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread "and unto the Numbers 28:17 (in Heb.) "And the fifteenth
day of this month shall be a feast · seven days shall unleavened bread be
eaten."!
So in these passages precludes the teaching of the Watchtower on the
sacrificial lamb of the Passover at the beginning of the 14th Nisan, and that the
use and consumption of unleavened bread came, as we said, the day of
Jesus' death, ie the 15 th of Nisan, but also because through it the
interpretation accepted by the Watchtower, the duration of cooking, and use of
unleavened bread, which is included in the passover meal and extended,
as shown by SEVEN (7) to EIGHT (8) days, according to the Deut. 16:3 (in
Heb.) clarifies that: "Seven days you want to eat unleavened IT (ie with the
Easter), ie in a period of SEVEN (7) DAYS IS INCLUDED THE EASTER
ALSO!
The logic then says that since one of the two interpretations are wrong, if
contrary to the most basic provisions of the Law of God, the other is probably
correct and that we should adopt. But we should not rely only in the logical
order to consider as correct, but should, by the method of research and
'torture' to be proved and through this mode as correct. The reader may if
they wish, before undertaking research on the exact timing of the Passover
sacrifice, to study some information about the changes of the feast of
Passover, which took place over time, so the reader has got an better idea of
the celebration the later Passover especially in the era of Christ. These have
exposed us to the relevant Art by HERE:
http://www.oodegr.com/oode/israil/eortes/pasxa_1.htm

16. 'Among the Evening'


We are already in the last part of our study relating to the ascertainment of
the exact hours of lilac sacrifice . So at the research we did on the Bible and
particularly in the Hebrew text, we found the following to be read immediately:
The Israelis would bring the passover lamb in their home in the 10th the first
Jewish month of Nisan or Aviv. Then we learn the following in the Ex. 12:6 (in
Heb.) "And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month · and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."
The Greek translation of Archimandrite Neophytos Vamvas, as many Greek
people know, is a translation from the corresponding translation of the Hebrew
into English of King James, which was published in the 1611. The English
translation then, at the end of the verse reads: '... shall kill it in the evening'
hence the Greek translation of "shall slaughter it in the evening" .

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However, those people who can read from the original Hebrew text, note the
following details: The same Hebrew phrase " in the evening" not found in the
haarbayim), ie' among ‫ב‬ ּ‫ר‬ַ singular ereb ’‫ם‬
ְ‫ע‬ ִ ‫בי‬ ַ ָ‫בין ה‬
ָֽ ְ ‫ער‬ ֵ but in the plural
eperinon OF 'or' between them at evening 'or' by means of evening '! the ' (
' (ereb ') is used 134 times in the Hebrew text, but in the 11 times we meet it in

plural tense ‘bên hā·‘ar·bā·yim’ (Ex.12:6, 16:2, 29:39,41, 30:8, Leviticus.


!( 23:5, Numbers 9:3, 5,11,28:4,8
In the only thing that we will disagree with Watchtower, is in the interpretation
of the two evening "According to the rabbinical view, the time the sun began to
tilt, ie from 3:00 to 5: 00, was the first night, while the west of the second. So
the space "between the two evenings" would be from 3:00 until 6:00 (Insight,
Vol.2, page 614). In our view, the first or the evening was from 12:00 pm when
the sun began to fall, and the second evening or the sunset, at the end of the
Jewish day around 6:00 pm. So between the two evenings is found on the 3rd
pm or ninth time at the Jewish way of measuring time. We come now to
demonstrate within the Bible our view.
" This is not that which thou shalt offer upon the altar · two lambs one-year day
forever · 39 . that lamb thou shalt offer in the morning and the other lamb thou
shalt offer at the middle of the evening ; ... 41 . and the second lamb thou
shalt offer at the middle of evening ... "( Ex. 29:38-39,41 (according the
corrected translation of the Hebrew text)
In the above passage the Jews were compelled to offer the first lamb in the
morning and the second lamb 'among the evenings', ie later than the first, at
a different time of day. In other words, during each day of the Jews, the first
offer or the morning, followed by ‘among the evenings' day supply.
Now, if the phrase 'among the evenings' means the offer made at the
beginning of the Jewish day, at the 6:00 - 7:20 pm as wrongly believe the
Watchtower (Insight, Vol.2, page 614), then this offer would be worth
necessarily the first offer of the day, not the second as God wanted her ( the
second lamb thou shalt offer at the middle of evenings ...»). Will be
preceded that morning and this offer, so the morning will not be the first or the
second offer, but! Here's the first verse, which contradicts the purposes of
Watchtower for its interpretation is been accepted on to the phrase 'among
the evenings', and so contradicted as to the exact time of the sacrifice of lamb
lilacs.

17. Verses that contradict Watchtowerabout the time of sacrifice


" And afterwards they prepared for themselves (the Levites), and for the
priests · because the priests, the sons Aaron were offering the burnt offering
and the tat until night · therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for
the priests, the sons of Aaron ... 16 . So all the service of the Lord was
prepared on that day , to selebrate the Passover, and to ofer burnt offerings
on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of king Josiah . "[ 2
Cronicles 35:14-16].
In the above passage, which describes us celebrate the Easter season on
King Josiah read that because was approaching the night and there was still
many animals for sacrifice by the priests, the Levites was to help priests
prepare the Paasover lambs for the priests and themselves, before the end of
14th Nisan . This implies that the Levites began to sacrifice them the Paasover

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lambs on the afternoon of 14th Nisan, so there was not enough time to
sacrifice all animals offered by the faithful, before night falls (when it will start
the 15th Nisan). So if the expression 'among the evenings' means the period
after the change of the day, this dark part 6:00 - 7:20 pm [including incorrect
teaches Watchtower misinforms once again the readers (Insight, Vol.2, page
614)], and that time the Passover lambs were being sacrificed, will already
already be night! The text would not reffer ‘were offering the burnt offering
and the tat until night’ , nor would speake of days "So all the service of the
Lord was prepared on that day’! Here is another passage that contradicts the
Watchtower, with respect to the time of slaughter of Passover lamb, that
fallacious belief and teaching and sadly drifting in the loss of its followers.
" And on the noon Elijah sniff them and he said, cry aloud voice · because he
is a god is · either he is talking, or he is pursing, or he is in a journey, or
perhaps he is asleep, and needs to be awakened .... 29. And after the noon
and they prophesied until the time of the offering, but there was no voice, no
one answered, and no ome paid attention" (1 Kings 18:27,29).
When the priests of Baal were trying desperately to the time of offering to
'persuade' the god to act at the time of the prophet Elijah gathered the people,
fixed the altar of the Lord, took 12 stones and built an altar (verses 31-32),
stacking wood, dissected the calf and affixed to the wood (verse 33) and said
unto the people to fill 4 urns of water to throw in the Holocaust and in the
woods, and all this be done three occasions. Then the text says the following:
" And it came the time of of the offering of the evening sacrifice Elijah the
prophet, came near and said, Lord, God of Israel, let it be known today that
You are God in Israel, and tat I am your servant, and that I have done all these
things at your word." (verse 36)
Then comes the famous incident of fire fall from heaven, which devoured the
holocaust, wood and stones, and killed the prophets of Baal (verses 38-40).
Important also is the one that refers to the verse 45: "And in the mean while
the heaven was black of clouds and wind, and there was a great rain".
From these observations we see clearly that ALL the events described in this
chapter were made in the light of day ! This is also confirmed by the above
verse 45 who tells us that even at the end of all these events it was day just in
a moment of time the heaven was black of clouds! Also, ALL of the above
facts as described by verse 30 onwards took place after noon and evening
offer was performed by among of evenings, as clearly evidenced by the
verse 29 "And it came about when midday was rast , and they prophesied
until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, but there was no
voice, no answered, and no one paid attention."
If now, according to the misinterpretation of the Watchtower, the evening
offering rite at the beginning of the day in this dark part (ie 6:00 - 7:20 pm ) if it
determines the time point between two evening (Insight, Vol.2, page 614),
may all these incidents have taken place during the night ? Especially
when verse 45 witness, as we said, it was still just a day and just in a moment
of time the heaven was black of clouds? So all these incidents took place
during the daytime , so when during the daytime is the moment under
investigation 'by the middle of the evenings' during which was being
sacrificed the passover lamb, and not during night as misbeliefly teaches
and misleads the Watchtower its followers.

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18. Historical evidence against the Watchtower
Will conclude the study and giving us two evidence out of Biblos confirming our
interpretation and prove wrong the Watchtower’s:
"And any one may hence learn how very great piety we exercise towards God,
and the observance of his laws, since the priests were not at all hindered from
their sacred ministrations by their fear during this siege, but did still twice a-
day, in the morning and about the ninth hour, offer their sacrifices on the
altar" (Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 14, Chap.4, parag.3)
In the above reference by Josephus tells us clearly that the two daily sacrifices
mentioned in the Ex. 29:38-39,41 and we have analyzed above, one took
place in the morning and another at around the 9th hour, ie 3rd pm. Josephus
tells us that is pure and clear, that the time of under investigation famous
expression ‘among the evenings', corresponds to the 3rd pm! So here we
have another testimony that contradicts the Watchtower Society as to the time
of slaughter lamb of lilacs.
"So these high priests, upon the coming of that feast which is called the
Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour till the
eleventh... "( Flavius Josephus, Jewish Wars, Book 6, chap.9, para.3).
This reference of Josephus, as such, it is enough to shake the air in the loose
structure of the Watchtower on the alleged massacre of Passover lamb to the
principle the 14th Nisan, in the darkness of this section (ie 6:00 - 7 : 20 pm ),
and alleging that in cooking, unleavened bread of Christ and his disciples,
because Josephus thunders that point in time ‘among the evenings', which
he duly recorded in the second offer of the day, not what misbelief the
Watchtower teaches (ie 6:00 - 7:20 pm), but the time between 9th and 11th , ie
3:00 - 5:00 pm!!! The same time that were being sacrificed the Passover
lambs, the same time coincided to slaughter the lamb of God, so the
crucified Jesus is realized that the story true antitypon of the Old
Testament sacrificial Passover lamb!
" After the curlew there is fourth feast passports, whitch the Jewish Passover
call, during this feast they sacrifice alltogether beggining at noon until
evening."[Philo of Alexandria, De legibus specialibus ( About the partially
decrees), Book II, chap. "About the way the laws relating to three genera
of ten scholars, 3rd , the 4th , the 5th. In the evorkias and respect for
sacred 7th and parents value' par.145 ].
Another testimony out of the Bible that exposes the fallacy Watchtower, we
derive from Philo, who clearly says that Jews the Passover sacrifice to begin
in noon and onwards , and not since the Watchtower convenient to pass
the unleavened bread and shamelessly to make Christ and His disciples
offenders .
Each household had to choose a healthy, one-year male sheep or goat. This
was brought home in the 10th day of Aviv and lasted until the 14th , when the
slaughtered and shook his blood with a bunch of hyssop in the jambs and the
lintel of the door of the house in which we will eat (not in threshold where the
blood will be pressed). (Insight, Vol.2, page 613)
To conclude our study we want to send a query to our beloved Jehovah's
Witnesses:
In the above excerpt from the book "Insight", is apparently quoting from the
passage in Ex. 12:6, where in the Hebrew text we read: "And you shall keep
it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of

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the congregation of Israel shall kill it among the evenings".
The command of God then, was the sheep to stay in the house of the
Israelites, of course alive up to the 14th of Nisan. When the Watchtower puts
Christ and his disciples, and all the Israelites to slaughter the lamb
immediately on entering the 14th Nisan (ie 6:00 - 7:20 pm, Insight, Vol.2,
page 614), how is it understood that the sheep remained alive on the 14th of
Nisan, when slaughtered immediately upon entry ???

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