First let me say that I never listen to scholars - I go to the Word of God for information.
That is the only guaranteed true source for what it says.
There is not a specific Day called Passover.
But Passover, and its observance by that name, are found throughout the Word of God in the OT:
Lev 23:5; Ex 12:11,21,27,43; Nu 9:2,4,
28:16;
Dt 16:1;
Jos 5:10;
2 Kg 23:21;
2 Chr 30:1;
Ez 6:19.
SOME, Jews referred (still do) to the FIRST Day of Unleavened Bread as Passover (or even the whole 7/8 days) and some did/do not --- that is where the confusion comes in. So if you want to call the day after the preparation Passover (but are referred to as the days of unleavened bread)
When fallingblood refers to the Day of Preparation for the Passover, he means Nisan 13, the day
before Passover.
He has not yet reckoned with the abbreviated nomenclature of those feasts during the time of Jesus, and does not understand the bearing of that nomenclature
on the dates of the feasts in the NT.
There was no preparation for the Passover.
The lamb was slaughtered and roasted in the evening and then eaten at night, on Nisan 14, which had begun at sundown, and continued until the next sundown, which then began Nisan 15, the Feast of Unleavened Bread (see scriptures above).
The Day of Preparation was for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which that year began on a Saturday, making it a special Saturday sabbath.
The Day of Preparation for that special Sabbath was the day
before Nisan 15, which was Passover, Nisan 14.
Jesus died on the Day of
Preparation, Nisan
14, for the special Saturday Sabbath which was the beginning the Feast of Unleavened Bread on Nisan
15.
...No..Jesus did not die on that day but on the day before called the 'preparation day'. Still no problem or confusion and still the same day on which he died. :yes:
No confusion, as long as you understand that it was the Day of Preparation, Nisan 14, for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nisan 15-21.