Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets.
How would you feel if this is what you were told was going to happen, but you had just lost your best friend?
The disciples and those close to Jesus would have had to do their best to follow the law in the scriptures; but they would also have been mourning for their loss too.
Jesus knew what was happening and He knew this was one feast He would not go to because His body lay dead in the tomb.
…But He knew what lay ahead…