(SEE 5:12)

The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to honor the LORD.

For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.

So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to---the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.

You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).

At one time you yourselves used to live according to such desires, when your life was dominated by them.

Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.

I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;

that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;

You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.

Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.

"He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly; he never said a word. Like a lamb about to be slaughtered, like a sheep about to be sheared, he never said a word.

He was placed in a grave with those who are evil, he was buried with the rich, even though he had never committed a crime or ever told a lie."

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

when he saw Jesus walking by. "There is the Lamb of God!" he said.

It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate said to the people, "Here is your king!"

The passage of scripture which he was reading was this: "He was like a sheep that is taken to be slaughtered, like a lamb that makes no sound when its wool is cut off. He did not say a word.

The official asked Philip, "Tell me, of whom is the prophet saying this? Of himself or of someone else?"

it was the costly sacrifice of Christ, who was like a lamb without defect or flaw.

He had been chosen by God before the creation of the world and was revealed in these last days for your sake.

Then I saw a Lamb standing in the center of the throne, surrounded by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb appeared to have been killed. It had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God that have been sent through the whole earth.

As he did so, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people.