Ex 11:1-12:21; Lk 14; Job 29; 1Co 15

Exo 12:26 — Exo 12:27

When your children ask you, ʻWhat does this ceremony mean to you?ʼ - then you will say, ʻIt is the sacrifice of the Lordʼs Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.ʼ” The people bowed down low to the ground,

Exodus 12:32

Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.” 

Note: Pharaoh probably meant that they should bless him also when they were sacrificing to Yahweh in their religious festival—after all, he might reason, he did let them go (after divine judgment). To bless him would mean to invoke good gifts from God for him.

Luk 14:15 — Luk 14:18a

The Parable of the Great Banquet 

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!” But Jesus said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ʻCome, because everything is now ready.ʼ But one after another they all began to make excuses.