The days leading up to the resurrection of Jesus Christ are among the most important in the Christian calendar, as the faithful everywhere prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday.

Here are six key pieces of information to know and remember on this most Holy Thursday.

“I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

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1.) Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples before the crucifixion. In liturgical church traditions such as in the Catholic Church, worshippers commemorate this day with Mass on the Thursday evening before Easter Sunday. This day signifies the last day of Lent — a 40-day period on the Christian calendar set aside for fasting and prayer — and the start of the three-day Easter Triduum.

2.) Judas betrayed Jesus. Judas plotted to hand over Jesus to the religious authorities — and betrayed his teacher. “While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked him, ‘Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?'” (Luke 22:47-48).

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3.) Peter denied Jesus as well. After Jesus’ arrest, the disciple Peter denied three times that he knew Jesus — and afterward broke down and “wept bitterly,” as the Bible tells us. Peter later repented — and was restored.

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4.) Officials did not find Jesus guilty. Many people do not know that the chief priests and the Jewish people condemned Jesus. “Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate,” Luke 23 says. “So Pilate asked Jesus, ‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ ‘You have said so,’ Jesus replied. Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, ‘I find no basis for a charge against this man.'”

Pontius Pilate, a Roman, ruled Judea at the time. In front of the people, Matthew tells us, Pilate declared Jesus “just.” Pilate sent Jesus to Herod — and Herod sent Jesus back to Pilate.

“I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him,” Pilate told the people. “Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death.”

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The crowd at this trial wanted Jesus to die. Luke 23 adds, “Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. But they kept shouting, ‘Crucify him! Crucify him!'”

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5.) Jesus finished the Passover wine while on the cross. A traditional Passover Seder includes four glasses of wine (or grape juice) that symbolize the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in Egypt.

“Jesus finished the fourth cup, and the Passover meal, on the cross when he drank the wine,” notes author Brant Pitre on Patheos.com.

6.) On the cross, Jesus gave His life for the sins of the world. “Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth,” John 19:29-30 says.

“So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished!’ And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.”