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• 1 Corinthians 5:7. Christ is our “Passover Lamb.” The Great Controversy, 399.BHB 59.14

• John 11:47-54. The 10th day of the first month, (31 A.D.) the council set Him apart for death.BHB 59.15

• John 18:28. Friday morning Jews had not eaten the Passover.BHB 59.16

• John 19:14. Christ was crucified at the time of “the preparation of the Passover.”BHB 60.1

• Matthew 27:46-50. Christ died between the evenings, about three o’clock, at the time the Passover lambs were being slain. The Desire of Ages, 756.BHB 60.2

• John 19:31. The day following the crucifixion was an “high day”; that is, the yearly Passover Sabbath, and also the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day of the week.BHB 60.3

• Luke 23:54-56; Leviticus 23:5-7. While Christ, the true Passover, rested in the tomb from His finished earthly work on the Passover Sabbath, the 15th day of the first month, His followers were resting according to the commandment, upon the same day, the creation Sabbath. The day from that time was doubly blessed. The Desire of Ages, 769.BHB 60.4

• 1 Corinthians 15:20. Christ, the “first fruits of them that slept.” The Desire of Ages, 785.BHB 60.5

• Matthew 27:52, 53. “Many bodies of the saints which slept arose” and followed Christ from the tomb.BHB 60.6

• Romans 8:29. He was the “first-born among many brethren.”BHB 60.7

• Ephesians 4:7, 8, margin. When he ascended to heaven He took His company with Him as a sample of the final great harvest.BHB 60.8

• Leviticus 23:10, 11, margin. In the type the priest waved a “handful,” or sheaf, of the heads of the ripened grain before the Lord on the 16th day of the first month. The Desire of Ages, 77, 786.BHB 60.9

• John 20:16, 17. In the early morning of that memorable 16th day of the first month, the Saviour had not ascended.BHB 60.10

• Matthew 28:9. A little later in the same day He permitted them to touch and worship Him; for He had ascended to the Father and His sacrifice had been accepted. The Desire of Ages, 834.BHB 61.1