The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ (First Half) - Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services, the Sabbath before Passover! This year Passover falls on a Friday, which means that we take the Passover ceremony Thursday after sunset.

Then the regular Sabbath is the first day of Unleavened Bread. The next day is the Wave Sheaf Offering Day. When we get to the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the seventh day is on Friday and we have the Sabbath backed up to it. So we have: