Jesus Christ's Final Passover holds significant importance in understanding the timing and observance of this sacred event. The gospel accounts clearly show that Jesus observed the Passover with His disciples at the beginning of the 14th day of Abib, just after sunset. In Matthew 26:17-19, Jesus expresses His intention to keep the Passover at a disciple's house, and Mark clarifies that He meant to eat the Passover with them, not merely prepare for it. Luke's account further emphasizes Jesus' fervent desire to eat that Passover with His disciples before He suffered, as seen in Luke 22:15. His focus that evening was on eating the Passover, not on being the Passover, and He did so prior to His arrest later that night and His suffering, which began the next morning. Despite eating the Passover at the start of the 14th, Jesus, our Passover Lamb, was not sacrificed until many hours later, around 3:00 pm on the preparation day for the first day of Unleavened Bread. His crucifixion began at the third hour, about nine o'clock in the morning, and ended after the ninth hour. This discrepancy in timing highlights that while Jesus fulfilled the spiritual requirements of the Passover, the physical rites given to Israel do not match exactly with how He accomplished this fulfillment. He ate the Passover with His disciples, emphasizing the bread and wine, and set an example of humble service through washing their feet, symbolizing forgiveness and cleansing. Moreover, certain aspects of the original Passover instructions were not fulfilled in their literal form. Jesus and His disciples left the house before morning, contrary to the command in Exodus 12:22. He was crucified rather than roasted in fire, His remains were not burned, and His blood was not caught in a basin or smeared on a doorpost. Despite these differences, Jesus absolutely fulfilled the Passover according to spiritual requirements that satisfied our Father, setting the example for when and how to keep it by partaking of the bread and wine in remembrance of Him during the night of the 14th.

During Jesus Christ's final Passover, a series of harrowing events unfolded, orchestrated by God's timeline for our learning and to help us discern the depth of what He endured. The evening began with betrayal as Judas, a close companion, turned against Him, revealing the profound strength of Jesus' character in continuing to serve even the one who would betray Him. Following the Passover meal, loneliness gripped Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, where He faced the dread of impending suffering alone, despite pleading with His disciples to pray with Him. His arrest came with a violent mob armed with swords and clubs, stripping Him of liberty and subjecting Him to the mercy of merciless captors. Jesus was then beaten, enduring punches, slaps, and possibly blows from a club, each strike a mark of humiliation and disrespect. His beard was painfully plucked from His face, an act of excruciating shame akin to being skinned alive. He was spit upon, a gesture of profound contempt and hatred, which He bore silently with resolute determination. Stripped of His clothing, Jesus faced further humiliation, likely remaining unclothed throughout His ordeal. He was scourged with a brutal whip designed to flay skin, beaten so severely that His appearance was marred beyond recognition. His tormentors clothed Him in a scarlet robe, placed a reed in His hand as a mock scepter, and crowned Him with thorns, symbols twisted into instruments of pain and ridicule. Mockery followed, as His accusers derided Him, turning everything He represented into a source of mental anguish and suffering. The deepest pain came when He felt forsaken by His Father as the sins of mankind fell upon Him on the cross. Crying out, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" He experienced the separation from God that sin causes, a necessary suffering to relate to humanity as our High Priest. Through all this, both the Father and the Son endured immense pain, sacrificing deeply so that we might have the chance to live eternally with Them.

During Jesus Christ's final Passover, He shared bread with the Twelve, breaking it to distribute among them as a symbol of sharing His life. He declared the bread to represent His body, which He would give for the life of the world. However, His body was not broken, a significant detail in fulfilling scriptural prophecies. At the crucifixion, the position of a victim's body made breathing difficult, often necessitating the breaking of legs to hasten death. Yet, when the time came to break the legs of those crucified alongside Him, Jesus was already dead. The executioners pierced Him instead, ensuring that not one of His bones was broken, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Psalm 34:20.

Jesus Christ kept His final Passover with His disciples the night before He suffered, setting the example for when and how to keep it in remembrance of Him. As our Passover, He did not die until much later, near the end of the 14th day of the first month. The timing of His crucifixion on the afternoon of Abib 14 points to the promises God made to Abraham and the preparations for their covenant centuries before the Passover in Egypt. When Jesus was crucified, He fulfilled the requirement of the Passover lamb, with not one bone broken, confirming His sacrifice served a positive purpose. His death on the anniversary of God's covenantal promise to Abraham, at the same day and hour, draws attention to the eternal inheritance promised to Abraham and his spiritual seed. Jesus set the example of observing the Passover at the beginning of the 14th, and on that afternoon, He shed His blood to establish a New Covenant, an outgrowth of the covenant with Abraham, making his great nation a reality.