The chief priests conspired to murder Lazarus (John 12:9-11).

Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem as the messiah (Matthew 21:1-11, 14-17; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44).

He entered the Temple compound and cast out them that sold and bought in the Temple (Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-48).

Monday afternoon, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus speaks to his disciples about the destruction if Jerusalem and his Second Coming ().

The Small Council plots to murder Jesus (Matthew 26:3-5, Mark 14:1-2, Luke 22:2).

Jesus dines Monday night at the house of Simon the Leper where Mary of Bethany anoints him (Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9, John 12:2-8).

Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and sought to deliver Jesus to them. They paid him 30 pieces of silver to do so (Matthew 26: 3-6, Mark 14:10-11, Luke 22:3-6).

Essene Jews observed their Passover seder after sunset Tuesday evening.²

The First Christian Passover apparently observed at the Essene Guesthouse in the Upper City (Mt. Sion).³

The Last Supper, the first Christian Passover, where Jesus ate his last Passover meal, a meatless one, with his followers.

The Preparation Day (Matthew 27:62) on which occurs the sacrifice of the Passover lambs (Luke 22:7). 

Essene Holyday
(an Essene annual Sabbath).

The day of the Crucifixion.

Joseph of Arimathea, with the help of Nicodemus, placed Jesus' body hastily in his own new tomb sometime shortly before the beginning of the Passover Sabbath (Luke 23:50-54).

The women observed where and how they laid Jesus' body in the tomb (Luke 23:55).

An annual Sabbath (a Jewish holyday).

Chief priests and Pharisees seek placement of a guard at the tomb (Matthew 27:62-65, cf. Luke 24:21).

Pilate ordered the tomb to be made secure.

¹In Jewish reckoning a normal 24 hour day run from sunset to sunset.

²The beginning of the Essene annual Sabbath (the Feast of Unleavened Bread) when they observed Passover. The Essenes always observed their Passover on a Tuesday night. In CE 30 their Passover was a full twenty-four hours before that of the rest of the Jews (the Passover of the Jews). The Essenes used a solar calendar which fixed their annual Sabbaths on specific days of the week. See The Essene Calendar.

³While Jesus of Nazareth was not an Essene, the Last Supper, also known as the first Christian Passover, likely occurred in the Essene community. "To my mind" writes Bargil Pixner "this took place in the Essene guesthouse on Mount Zion on the Tuesday night" (Pixner 1992:64). If so, it could explain the persisting tradition that the first Lord�s Supper occurred in an upper room on Mt. Sion. Mackowski, concurring, held that this "must have been a very simple dining hall in keeping with the simple life of the Essenes" (Mackowski 1980:141).

⁴Jesus instituted the first Christian Passover at the beginning of Nisan 14. The Jews celebrated the Passover at the end of Nisan 14. The first Christian Passover and the Essene Passover occurred at the same time. Judeo-Christians, well into the fifth century, continued to observe the Christian Passover at the beginning of Nisan 14, which according to Bagatti, was due to "the common belief among the [Christian] Jews that the date had been fixed by the Lord and was, therefore, unchangeable. Many believed that this date was superior even to the sabbath itself" (Bagatti 1971a:81).

⁵This would have been the first occasion for the women to gain access to the body as the authorities, under an order from Pilate, placed a seal on the stone closing the tomb (cutting off all access) and posted guards at the tomb until the end of the full three day period.