• Mark 1

  • Video Introduction to the Book of Mark

  • Gospel of Mark—Some Major Events

  • The Wilderness

  • John the Baptizer’s Clothing and Appearance

  • Locusts

  • Wild Honey

  • Sandals

  • The Jordan River

  • View of the Valley of Jezreel

  • The Wilderness of Judea, West of the Jordan River

  • Wild Beasts of the Wilderness

  • Casting a Net

  • Fish of the Sea of Galilee

  • Synagogue in Capernaum

  • Mark 4

  • Domestic Lampstand

  • First-Century Fishing Boat

  • Remains of a Galilean Fishing Boat

  • Jesus Calms the Storm

  • Mark 5

  • Cliffs on the Eastern Side of the Sea of Galilee

  • Mark 6

  • Staff and Food Pouch

  • Baskets

  • The Marketplace

  • Mark 8

  • Coin Made by Herod Antipas

  • Mark 9

  • Mount Hermon

  • Mount Hermon As Seen From the Hula Valley Nature Reserve

  • Upper and Lower Millstones

  • Modern-Day Valley of Hinnom

  • Salt on the Shore of the Dead Sea

  • Mark 10

  • East of the Jordan​—Perea

  • Mark 11

  • Bethphage, the Mount of Olives, and Jerusalem

  • Colt, or Young Donkey

  • Mark 12

  • Winepress

  • Tiberius Caesar

  • The Marketplace

  • The Front Seats in the Synagogue

  • Prominent Places at Evening Meals

  • The Treasury Chests and the Widow

  • Mark 13

  • Stones From the Temple Mount

  • Mount of Olives

  • Mark 14

  • Alabaster Jar

  • The Passover Meal

  • Upper Room

  • Vine

  • Mark 15

  • The Sanhedrin

  • Nail in a Heel Bone

  • Tomb Chamber

  • Mark 16

  • Codex Sinaiticus—End of Mark’s Gospel

  • Codex Vaticanus—End of Mark’s Gospel

The items shown in the illustrations and 3-D video footage in the Media Gallery are based on extensive research. However, they are artists’ renditions and, at times, depict only one of several possibilities.

The Passover Meal

The Passover Meal

Essential items at the Passover meal were: roast lamb (no bones in the animal were to be broken) (1); unleavened bread (2); and bitter greens (3). (Ex 12:​5, 8; Nu 9:​11) The bitter greens, which according to the Mishnah might have been lettuce, chicory, pepperwort, endive, or dandelion, evidently reminded the Israelites of their bitter slavery in Egypt. Jesus used the unleavened bread as a symbol of his perfect human body. (Mt 26:26) And the apostle Paul called Jesus “our Passover lamb.” (1Co 5:7) By the first century, wine (4) was also served as part of the Passover meal. Jesus used the wine to symbolize his blood, which would be poured out as a sacrifice.​—Mt 26:27, 28.

Related Scripture(s)

Mt 26:18; Mr 14:12
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