before the passover # 43_JOH_11_55 # And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves. 
before the passover # 43_JOH_12_01 # Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.