In each of the scriptures assigned for Maundy Thursday there is a near obsession with
time: "This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month
of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month
they are to take a lamb ..." (Exodus 12:2-3); "For I received from the Lord what I also
handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of
bread ..." (1 Corinthians 11:23); and "Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew