Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter by chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

the Passover, as we pick up in Luke, chapter 22, verse one.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Luke's Gospel chapter 22. Now the feast of unleavened bread, Drunai, which is called

the Passover. The feast of unleavened bread actually was for six days, from the 15th of Nyssen to the 21st.

However, the 15th of Nysan was the day of the Passover.

And so it was drawing nigh.

People were beginning to prepare for it. Two days before the

feast, they would go through the house with brooms and brushes and make sure that they got rid of

all of the leaven out of the house in quite a ceremony. And of course, they'd always leave a little bit of leaven for one of the

children to find in order that they could find the last bit of leaven that was there, and they would

purge the house of leaven in preparation for the Passover. And so this time was drawing close.

And the chief priest and the scribes

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