There they were remembering their covenants of God from Passover.

When God led the people out of Egypt in Exodus readings that we're doing right now,

that's what Jesus and his disciples are remembering.

And they were eating the meal when Jesus says to them,

this is my body broken for you.

And the bread that he is holding is an established part of the Passover meal.

In Passover, if you have not experienced it, there's a number of different pieces of unleavened bread,

and some of them are broken, and some of them are hidden, and there's a lot of ritual with bread.

So, of course, Jesus and his disciples are in the upper room doing their Passover,

and he's holding one of the pieces of bread because this is what you do in Passover. And he says to

them, this is my body broken for you. He himself is tying the death of his body back to what

happened in the Passover. He names himself as the Passover lamb.

Welcome back to come follow me with Fair Old Testament Year. I am Jennifer Roach-Lee's

today we're actually talking about Easter.

Come follow me. Gives us a break this week from our regular Old Testament readings, and we turn

our attention to Easter, which is kind of great. It also is super fun because if you remember,

right now we're in the midst of the Passover event.

And so we're going to talk some today about how the Passover and Easter are very, very related

and how we remember all of this in our sacrament meeting when we take sacrament in our baptismal

covenant, like it all really ties together.

So this is a great place for Easter to fall.

Sometimes Easter falls in different places in the year. So I is a great place for Easter to fall. Sometimes Easter falls in

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