I shall therefore bring you the Passover lamb as a gift.
It wasn't that I hadn't seen the sacrifices before, nor even eaten the Passover lamb, but this was the first time I'd actually participated.
Mark says this is on the first day of the Feast and the day they sacrificed the Passover lamb.
A less common way to prepare meat was to roast it over an open fire, but this was done particularly for the meat of the Passover lamb.
During the Exodus out of Egypt and the first Passover, God commanded the all of the Israelites to slaughter a Passover lamb and eat it.
The Passover lamb or kid speaks of God's protection and provision for his people - Israel is his firstborn.
The Passover lamb and the man on the cross make the same point.
And God told them to instruct the Israelites in the laws of the Passover service, of the Passover lamb, and of abstaining from leavened bread.
In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, they would bring the body of the Passover lamb before the leader.
An apostate must not eat from the Passover lamb.