29 Bible Verses about Passover

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Exodus 12:25-27

And it shall be when ye shall come to the land. which Jehovah will give to you, as he spake, watch ye this service. And it shall be when your sons shall say to you, What this service to you? And they said, This the sacrifice of the passing over to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt in his striking the Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. And the people will bow down and will worship.

Exodus 12:2-11

This month is to you the beginning of months: this to you the first month of the year. Speak ye to all the assembly of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month and they shall take to them each a sheep, according to the house of the fathers; a sheep for a house. And if the house shall be little from being for a sheep, and he taking, and his neighbor drawing nigh his house according to the number of souls; each according to the mouth of his eating shall ye reckon for the sheep.read more.
A perfect sheep, a male, the son of a year, shall be to you from the he-lambs and from the goats ye shall take. And it shall be to you for a preservation till the fourteenth day of this month; and they shall slaughter it, all the convocation of the assembly of Israel, between the two evenings. And they took from the blood and gave upon the two door-posts, and upon the lintel within the houses which they shall eat it in them. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it Ye shall not eat from it raw and boiled from boiling with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs with its inner part Ye shall not leave from it till morning: and that remaining from it till morning, ye shall burn with fire. And so shall ye eat it, your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand: and ye ate it in hasty flight; a passing over to Jehovah.

Numbers 9:1-5

And Jehovah will speak to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the second year of their coming out of the land of Egypt., in the first month, saying, And the sons of Israel shall do the passover in its appointment In the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings ye shall do it in its appointment, according to all its laws, and according to all its judgments ye shall do itread more.
And Moses will speak to the sons of Israel to do the passover. And they will do the passover in the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the desert of Sinai: according to all which Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

Watch the month of Abib, and do the passover to Jehovah thy God: for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night And sacrifice the passover to Jehovah thy God, of the sheep, and the oxen in the place which Jehovah shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. Thou shalt not eat upon it leavened; seven days thou shalt eat upon it unleavened, the bread of affliction; (for in hasty flight thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt) so that thou shalt remember the day of thy coming forth from the land of Egypt all the days of thy life,read more.
And leaven shall not be seen to thee in all thy boundary seven days; and there shall not remain over night from the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice in the evening, in the first day to the morning. Thou shalt not be able to sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee. But at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover in the evening, as the sun went down, the appointment of thy coming out of Egypt And boil thou and eat in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose in it: and turn in the morning and go to thy tents. Six days shalt thou eat unleavened, and in the seventh day an enclosing to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do work.

Exodus 34:25

Thou shalt not slaughter upon leaven, the blood of my sacrifice; and the sacrifice of the festival of the pass-over shall not be left to morning.

John 11:55

And the Jews' pascha was near: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the pascha, that they might purify themselves.

Numbers 9:6-13

And there shall be men who were unclean by the soul of man, and they will not be able to do the passover in that day: and they came near before Moses and before Aaron, in that day: And these men will say to him, We are unclean by the soul of man: wherefore shall we be withheld so as not to bring near an offering of Jehovah at his appointment, in the midst of the sons of Israel? And Moses will say to them, Stand ye, and I will hear what Jehovah will command for you.read more.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, A man, a man when he shall be unclean by the soul, or in a way far off to you or to your generations, and he did the passover to Jehovah. In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it They shall not leave from it till morning, and a bone they shall not break in it: according to all the laws of the passover they shall do it And the man who is clean, and was not in the way, and failed to do the passover, that soul was cut off from its people; for he brought not the offering of Jehovah at his appointment, that man shall bear his sin.

Exodus 12:43-45

And Jehovah will say to Moses and Aaron, This the law of the passing over: every son of a stranger shall not eat of it. And every servant of a man bought with silver, and thou hast circumcised him, then he shall eat of it The sojourner and the hireling shall not eat of it

Numbers 9:14

And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and he did the passover to Jehovah; according to the law of the passover and according to its judgment, so shall he do: one law shall be to you, and to the stranger, and to the native of the land.

Joshua 5:10

And the sons of Israel will encamp in Gilgal, and they will do the passover in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the plain of Jericho.

2 Kings 23:21-23

And the king will command all the people, saying, Do the passover to Jehovah your God, according to the writing upon the book of this covenant For there was not done according to this passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel, and the kings of Judah. But in the eighteenth year to king Josiah was done this passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:1-5

And Hezekiah will send to all Israel and Judah, and also he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh to come to the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, to do the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel. And the king will take counsel, and his chiefs, and all the convocation in Jerusalem, to do the passover in the second month. For they could not do it at that time for the priests consecrated not themselves sufficiently, and the people were not gathered to Jerusalem.read more.
And the word will be straight in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of all the convocation. And they will set up a word to cause a voice to pass in all Israel, from the well of the oath, and even to judgment, to come to do the passover to Jehovah God of Israel in Jerusalem: for they did not for much time as written.

Ezra 6:19-21

And the sons of the exile will do the passover in the fourteenth to the first month. For the priests and Levites were purified as one, all of them being purified; and they will slaughter the pass-over for all the sons of the exile, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. And the sons of Israel will eat; those turning back from exile and every one being separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the earth to them, to seek for Jehovah the God of Israel;

Ezekiel 45:21-24

In the first, in the fourteenth day in the month, the passover shall be to you the festival of seven days; unleavened shall be eaten. And in that day the prince did for himself and for all the people of the land the bullock of sin. And seven days of the festival he shall do a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams blameless for the day, seven days; and the sin a he goat of the goats for the day.read more.
And the gift an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram shall he do, and oil, an hin to the ephah.

Luke 2:41-42

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem to the festival of the passover. And when he was of twelve years, they having gone up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the festival :

John 6:4

And the pascha was near, the festival of the Jews.

Acts 12:4

And having seized, he put him in prison, having delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to watch him; wishing after the pascha to bring him to the people.

Luke 22:15

And he said to them, With eager desire have I desired to eat this pascha with you before I suffer:

Matthew 26:17-19

And in the first of the unleavened loaves, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou we should prepare for thee to eat the pascha? And he said, Retire ye into the city, to a certain person, and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near; with thee do I the pascha with my disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus commanded them: and they prepared the passover.

Mark 14:12-16

And in the first day of the unleavened, when they sacrificed the pascha, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou, we, having gone, should prepare that thou eat the pascha And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Retire to the city, and a man shall meet you bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow him. And wherever he should enter in, say to the lord of the house, That the Teacher says, Where is the room where I might eat the pascha with my disciples?read more.
And he will shew you a great apartment spread, ready: there prepare for us. And his disciples went out, and came to the city, and found as he said to them: and they prepared the pascha.

Luke 22:7-13

And the day of unleavened came, in which must be sacrificed the pascha. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Having gone, prepare ye for us the pascha, that we might eat. And they said to him, Where wilt thou that we should prepare?read more.
And he said to them, Behold, you having come to the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow ye him to the house where he goes in. And ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the room where I should eat the pascha with my disciples? And he shall shew you a great upper room spread: there prepare ye. And having departed, they found as he said to them; and they prepared the pascha.

John 2:23

And when he was in Jerusalem at the paseha, in the festival, many believed in his name, beholding his signs which he did.

John 19:36

For these were that the writing be completed, A bone of him shall not be broken.

Exodus 12:46

In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not bring forth out of the house from the flesh without, and ye shall not break a bone of it

Revelation 5:5-6

And one of the elders says to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion conquered, he being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, to open the book, and to loose its seven seals. And I saw, and, behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent into all the earth.

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John 2:23

And when he was in Jerusalem at the paseha, in the festival, many believed in his name, beholding his signs which he did.

Numbers 9:5

And they will do the passover in the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the desert of Sinai: according to all which Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

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Exodus 12:1-28

And Jehovah will say to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month is to you the beginning of months: this to you the first month of the year. Speak ye to all the assembly of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month and they shall take to them each a sheep, according to the house of the fathers; a sheep for a house. read more.
And if the house shall be little from being for a sheep, and he taking, and his neighbor drawing nigh his house according to the number of souls; each according to the mouth of his eating shall ye reckon for the sheep. A perfect sheep, a male, the son of a year, shall be to you from the he-lambs and from the goats ye shall take. And it shall be to you for a preservation till the fourteenth day of this month; and they shall slaughter it, all the convocation of the assembly of Israel, between the two evenings. And they took from the blood and gave upon the two door-posts, and upon the lintel within the houses which they shall eat it in them. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it Ye shall not eat from it raw and boiled from boiling with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs with its inner part Ye shall not leave from it till morning: and that remaining from it till morning, ye shall burn with fire. And so shall ye eat it, your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand: and ye ate it in hasty flight; a passing over to Jehovah. And I passed over in the land of Egypt in this night, and I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt from man even to quadruped: and against all the gods of Egypt I will do judgments: I Jehovah. And the blood was to you for a sign upon the houses where you are there: and I saw the blood and I passed over you, and the blow shall not be upon you to destroy, in my striking upon the land of Egypt And this day shall be to you for a remembrance; and ye kept it a festival to Jehovah for your generations: ye shall keep a festival a law forever. Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day. And in the first day a calling of holiness, and in the seventh day a calling of holiness shall be to you; every service shall not be done in them only what shall be eaten by every soul; this only shall be done by you. And ye watched the unleavened; for in this self-same day I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt and watch ye this day for your generations a law forever. In the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened till the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening. Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for all eating from the leavened, that soul shall be destroyed from the assembly of Israel, for the sojourner or for the native of the land. All leavened ye shall not eat: in all your dwellings ye shall eat unleavened. And Moses will call for all the old men of Israel and he will say to them, Draw out and take to yourselves a sheep according to your tribes, and slaughter the passing over. And take ye a bundle of hyssop, and dip in the blood that is upon the threshhold, and touch upon the lintel, and upon the two door-posts from the blood which is upon the threshhold and ye shall not come forth each from the door of his house till morning. And Jehovah passed over to strike the Egyptians; and he saw the blood upon the lintel, and upon the two doorposts, and Jehovah passed by the door and will not give him destroying to come in to your houses to strike. And watch ye this word for a law to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall be when ye shall come to the land. which Jehovah will give to you, as he spake, watch ye this service. And it shall be when your sons shall say to you, What this service to you? And they said, This the sacrifice of the passing over to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt in his striking the Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. And the people will bow down and will worship. And the sons of Israel will go, and will do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron; thus did they.

Israel » Second » Passover

Numbers 9:1-5

And Jehovah will speak to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the second year of their coming out of the land of Egypt., in the first month, saying, And the sons of Israel shall do the passover in its appointment In the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings ye shall do it in its appointment, according to all its laws, and according to all its judgments ye shall do it read more.
And Moses will speak to the sons of Israel to do the passover. And they will do the passover in the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the desert of Sinai: according to all which Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

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Passover » Feast of » Held on the 14th of the first month, abib (april), to commemorate the exodus from egypt

Hebrews 11:28

By faith he has kept the pascha, and the pouring out of blood, lest he destroying the first born should touch them.

Leviticus 23:6

And in the fifteenth day of that month the festival of unleavened to Jehovah: seven days shall ye eat unleavened.

Numbers 9:5

And they will do the passover in the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the desert of Sinai: according to all which Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

Joshua 5:10

And the sons of Israel will encamp in Gilgal, and they will do the passover in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the plain of Jericho.

2 Kings 23:22

For there was not done according to this passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel, and the kings of Judah.

Passover » General references to

Deuteronomy 16:1

Watch the month of Abib, and do the passover to Jehovah thy God: for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night

Exodus 12:11

And so shall ye eat it, your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand: and ye ate it in hasty flight; a passing over to Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 35:11

And they will slaughter the passover, and the priests will sprinkle from their hand, and the Levites flaying.

Numbers 33:3

And they will remove from Rameses in the first month, in the fifteenth day to the first month: on the morrow of the passover and the sons of Israel went forth with a high hand before the eyes of all the Egyptians.

Passover » Observed with unleavened bread (no yeast)

Exodus 23:15

Thou shalt watch the festival of unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened as I commanded thee according to the appointment of the month Abib; for in it thou camest forth out of Egypt: and they shall not be seen before me empty.

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it

Numbers 9:11

In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.

Acts 12:3

And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added also to take Peter. (They were the days of unleavened bread.)

Passover » Institution of

Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times in a year shall every one of thy males be seen before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose in the festival of unleavened, and in the festival of weeks, and in the festival of booths: and he shall not be seen before Jehovah empty:

Psalm 81:5

He set him a testimony in Joseph in his going forth upon the land of Egypt: I shall hear a lip I knew not

Exodus 12:3-49

Speak ye to all the assembly of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month and they shall take to them each a sheep, according to the house of the fathers; a sheep for a house. And if the house shall be little from being for a sheep, and he taking, and his neighbor drawing nigh his house according to the number of souls; each according to the mouth of his eating shall ye reckon for the sheep. A perfect sheep, a male, the son of a year, shall be to you from the he-lambs and from the goats ye shall take. read more.
And it shall be to you for a preservation till the fourteenth day of this month; and they shall slaughter it, all the convocation of the assembly of Israel, between the two evenings. And they took from the blood and gave upon the two door-posts, and upon the lintel within the houses which they shall eat it in them. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it Ye shall not eat from it raw and boiled from boiling with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs with its inner part Ye shall not leave from it till morning: and that remaining from it till morning, ye shall burn with fire. And so shall ye eat it, your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand: and ye ate it in hasty flight; a passing over to Jehovah. And I passed over in the land of Egypt in this night, and I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt from man even to quadruped: and against all the gods of Egypt I will do judgments: I Jehovah. And the blood was to you for a sign upon the houses where you are there: and I saw the blood and I passed over you, and the blow shall not be upon you to destroy, in my striking upon the land of Egypt And this day shall be to you for a remembrance; and ye kept it a festival to Jehovah for your generations: ye shall keep a festival a law forever. Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day. And in the first day a calling of holiness, and in the seventh day a calling of holiness shall be to you; every service shall not be done in them only what shall be eaten by every soul; this only shall be done by you. And ye watched the unleavened; for in this self-same day I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt and watch ye this day for your generations a law forever. In the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened till the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening. Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for all eating from the leavened, that soul shall be destroyed from the assembly of Israel, for the sojourner or for the native of the land. All leavened ye shall not eat: in all your dwellings ye shall eat unleavened. And Moses will call for all the old men of Israel and he will say to them, Draw out and take to yourselves a sheep according to your tribes, and slaughter the passing over. And take ye a bundle of hyssop, and dip in the blood that is upon the threshhold, and touch upon the lintel, and upon the two door-posts from the blood which is upon the threshhold and ye shall not come forth each from the door of his house till morning. And Jehovah passed over to strike the Egyptians; and he saw the blood upon the lintel, and upon the two doorposts, and Jehovah passed by the door and will not give him destroying to come in to your houses to strike. And watch ye this word for a law to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall be when ye shall come to the land. which Jehovah will give to you, as he spake, watch ye this service. And it shall be when your sons shall say to you, What this service to you? And they said, This the sacrifice of the passing over to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt in his striking the Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. And the people will bow down and will worship. And the sons of Israel will go, and will do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron; thus did they. And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle. And Pharaoh will rise up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there will be a great cry in Egypt: for not a house where there was not the dead there. And he will call for Moses and for Aaron by night, and he will say, Arise, go forth from the midst of my people, also ye, also the sons of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah as ye spake. Also your sheep, also your oxen take as ye spake, and go and bless also me. And Egypt will be strong upon the people to hasten to send them forth out of the land; for they said, We are all dying. And the people will take up their dough before it will be leavened, their kneading-bowls bound in their garments upon their shoulders. And the sons of Israel did as Moses spake: and they will ask of the Egyptians, silver vessels and gold vessels,' and garments. And Jehovah gave favor to the people in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they will lend them; and they will strip the Egyptians. And the sons of Israel will remove from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand footmen; men apart from the little ones. And also a great mixture went up with them; and sheep and oxen, very much cattle. And they will cook the dough which they brought out of Egypt unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened; for they were driven out of Egypt, for they could not linger, and also they made not for themselves food. And the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they dwelt in Egypt, was thirty years and four hundred years. And it will be from the end of thirty years and four hundred years, in this self-same day all the armies of Jehovah will go forth out of the land of Egypt This a night of watchings to Jehovah, for bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt: it is this night to Jehovah of watching to all the sons of Israel for their generations. And Jehovah will say to Moses and Aaron, This the law of the passing over: every son of a stranger shall not eat of it. And every servant of a man bought with silver, and thou hast circumcised him, then he shall eat of it The sojourner and the hireling shall not eat of it In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not bring forth out of the house from the flesh without, and ye shall not break a bone of it All the assembly of Israel shall do it. And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and do the passing over to Jehovah, all the males to him being circumcised, and then he shall draw near to do it; and he was as a native of the land: and every one uncircumcised shall not eat of it. One law shall be to the native and to the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

Exodus 23:15-18

Thou shalt watch the festival of unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened as I commanded thee according to the appointment of the month Abib; for in it thou camest forth out of Egypt: and they shall not be seen before me empty. And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field. Three times in the year every male of thine shall be seen to the face of the Lord Jehovah. read more.
Thou shalt not sacrifice upon leaven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the fat of my festival shall not remain over till morning.

Passover » Prisoner released at, by the romans

Matthew 27:15

And in the festival the leader was accustomed to loose one imprisoned to the crowd, which they desired.

Mark 15:6

And at the festival he loosed to them one in bonds, whomsoever they asked.

Luke 23:16-17

Therefore, having chastised him, I will release. (And he had necessity to loose one at the festival.)

John 18:39

But a custom is to you, that I loose one to you in the pascha: will ye therefore I should loose to you the King of the Jews

Passover » Observed by jesus

John 2:13

And the pascha of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

John 2:23

And when he was in Jerusalem at the paseha, in the festival, many believed in his name, beholding his signs which he did.

Luke 22:15

And he said to them, With eager desire have I desired to eat this pascha with you before I suffer:

Matthew 26:17-20

And in the first of the unleavened loaves, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou we should prepare for thee to eat the pascha? And he said, Retire ye into the city, to a certain person, and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near; with thee do I the pascha with my disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus commanded them: and they prepared the passover. read more.
And it being evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.

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Matthew 26:26-28

And they eating, Jesus, having taken the bread and praised, brake and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And having taken the cup, and given thanks, he gave to them, saying, Drink of it all ye. For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.

Mark 14:12-25

And in the first day of the unleavened, when they sacrificed the pascha, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou, we, having gone, should prepare that thou eat the pascha And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Retire to the city, and a man shall meet you bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow him. And wherever he should enter in, say to the lord of the house, That the Teacher says, Where is the room where I might eat the pascha with my disciples? read more.
And he will shew you a great apartment spread, ready: there prepare for us. And his disciples went out, and came to the city, and found as he said to them: and they prepared the pascha. And having been evening, he comes with the twelve. And they reclining and eating, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, That one of you shall deliver me up, he eating with me. And they began to be grieved, and to say to him one by one, What, not I? and another, What, not I? And he having answered, said to them, One of the twelve, he dipping with me into the small dish. Truly the Son of man retires, as has been written of him: and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it were good for him if that man had not been born. And they eating, Jesus having taken bread, having praised, brake, and gave them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. And having taken the cup, having returned thanks, he gave them: and they all drank of it. And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the new covenant, being poured out for many. Truly I say to you that I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

Luke 22:7-20

And the day of unleavened came, in which must be sacrificed the pascha. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Having gone, prepare ye for us the pascha, that we might eat. And they said to him, Where wilt thou that we should prepare? read more.
And he said to them, Behold, you having come to the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow ye him to the house where he goes in. And ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the room where I should eat the pascha with my disciples? And he shall shew you a great upper room spread: there prepare ye. And having departed, they found as he said to them; and they prepared the pascha. And when it was the hour, he reclined, and the twelve sent with him. And he said to them, With eager desire have I desired to eat this pascha with you before I suffer: For I say to you, no more should I eat of it, till when it should be completed in the kingdom of God. Having taken the cup, and returned thanks, he said, Take this, and divide among yourselves: For I say to you that I drink not of the fruit of the vine, till when the kingdom of God comes. Having taken the bread, and returned thanks, he brake, and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you: this do ye for my remembrance. Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:

Passover » Jesus crucified at the time of

John 18:28

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium: and it was early morning; and they came not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the pascha.

Mark 14:1-2

And after two days was the pascha, and the unleavened loaves: and the chief priests and scribes sought how, having taken him by fraud, they might kill. And they said, Not in the festival, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Passover » The lamb killed by levites, for those who were ceremonially unclean

Ezra 6:20

For the priests and Levites were purified as one, all of them being purified; and they will slaughter the pass-over for all the sons of the exile, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

2 Chronicles 30:17

For many in the convocation which consecrated not themselves: and the Levites for slaughtering the passover to all not being cleansed to consecrate to Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 35:3-11

And he will say to the Levites causing to all Israel to understand, being consecrated to Jehovah, Ye shall give the holy ark into the house which Solomon son of David, king of Israel built: not to you a lifting up upon the shoulder: now serve ye Jehovah your God and his people Israel. And prepare yourselves to the house of your fathers in your divisions, in the writing of David king of Israel, and in the writing of Solomon his son: And stand ye in the holy place for the divisions of the house of the fathers to your brethren the sons of the people, and the division of the father's house to the Levites. read more.
And slaughter ye the passover and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses. And Josiah will lift up to the sons of the people, sheep, lambs and sons of the goats, the whole for the paschal lambs for all being found to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these from the king's substance. And his chiefs for willingness to the people, to the priests and to the Levites, lifted up: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, leaders of the house of God, gave to the priests for paschal lambs, two thousand and six hundred, and three hundred oxen. And Cononiah and Shemaiah, and Nathaniel his brethren, and Hashabiah, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, chiefs of the Levites, lifted up to the Levites for paschal lambs, five thousand, and five hundred oxen. And the service will be prepared, and the priests will stand upon their standing, and the Levites upon their divisions according to the command of the king. And they will slaughter the passover, and the priests will sprinkle from their hand, and the Levites flaying.

Passover » Observation of, renewed » By josiah

2 Chronicles 35:1

And Josiah will do in Jerusalem the passover to Jehovah: and they will slaughter the passover in the fourteenth day to the first month.

2 Kings 23:22-23

For there was not done according to this passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel, and the kings of Judah. But in the eighteenth year to king Josiah was done this passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 35:18

And a passover as this was not done in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and all the kings of Israel did not like the passover which Josiah did, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel being found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Passover » Special passover, for those who were unclean, or on a journey, to be held in the second month

Numbers 9:6-12

And there shall be men who were unclean by the soul of man, and they will not be able to do the passover in that day: and they came near before Moses and before Aaron, in that day: And these men will say to him, We are unclean by the soul of man: wherefore shall we be withheld so as not to bring near an offering of Jehovah at his appointment, in the midst of the sons of Israel? And Moses will say to them, Stand ye, and I will hear what Jehovah will command for you. read more.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, A man, a man when he shall be unclean by the soul, or in a way far off to you or to your generations, and he did the passover to Jehovah. In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it They shall not leave from it till morning, and a bone they shall not break in it: according to all the laws of the passover they shall do it

2 Chronicles 30:2-4

And the king will take counsel, and his chiefs, and all the convocation in Jerusalem, to do the passover in the second month. For they could not do it at that time for the priests consecrated not themselves sufficiently, and the people were not gathered to Jerusalem. And the word will be straight in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of all the convocation.

Passover » Strangers authorized to celebrate

Exodus 12:48-49

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and do the passing over to Jehovah, all the males to him being circumcised, and then he shall draw near to do it; and he was as a native of the land: and every one uncircumcised shall not eat of it. One law shall be to the native and to the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

Numbers 9:14

And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and he did the passover to Jehovah; according to the law of the passover and according to its judgment, so shall he do: one law shall be to you, and to the stranger, and to the native of the land.

Passover » Re-instituted by ezekiel

Ezekiel 45:21-24

In the first, in the fourteenth day in the month, the passover shall be to you the festival of seven days; unleavened shall be eaten. And in that day the prince did for himself and for all the people of the land the bullock of sin. And seven days of the festival he shall do a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams blameless for the day, seven days; and the sin a he goat of the goats for the day. read more.
And the gift an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram shall he do, and oil, an hin to the ephah.

Passover » Observation of, renewed » After the return from babylonian captivity

Ezra 6:19-20

And the sons of the exile will do the passover in the fourteenth to the first month. For the priests and Levites were purified as one, all of them being purified; and they will slaughter the pass-over for all the sons of the exile, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

Passover » Observation of, renewed » By the israelites upon entering canaan

Joshua 5:10-11

And the sons of Israel will encamp in Gilgal, and they will do the passover in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the plain of Jericho. And they will eat from the grain of the land from the morrow of the passover, unleavened and roasted in the self-same day.

Passover » Design of

Exodus 12:21-28

And Moses will call for all the old men of Israel and he will say to them, Draw out and take to yourselves a sheep according to your tribes, and slaughter the passing over. And take ye a bundle of hyssop, and dip in the blood that is upon the threshhold, and touch upon the lintel, and upon the two door-posts from the blood which is upon the threshhold and ye shall not come forth each from the door of his house till morning. And Jehovah passed over to strike the Egyptians; and he saw the blood upon the lintel, and upon the two doorposts, and Jehovah passed by the door and will not give him destroying to come in to your houses to strike. read more.
And watch ye this word for a law to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall be when ye shall come to the land. which Jehovah will give to you, as he spake, watch ye this service. And it shall be when your sons shall say to you, What this service to you? And they said, This the sacrifice of the passing over to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt in his striking the Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. And the people will bow down and will worship. And the sons of Israel will go, and will do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron; thus did they.

Passover » Jesus in the temple courtyard at the time of

Luke 2:41-50

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem to the festival of the passover. And when he was of twelve years, they having gone up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the festival : And having completed the days, in their returning the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not. read more.
And they, having supposed him to be in the caravan, came the way of a day, and sought him among Kingmen and among acquaintances. And not having found him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it was after three days they found him in the temple, sitting, in the midst of teachers, and bearing them, and inquiring of them. And all hearing him were affected in mind at his understanding and answers. And having seen him, they were struck with awe : and his mother said to hint, Child, why didst thou so to us ? behold, thy father and I, grieving,have sought thee. And he said to them, For what have ye sought me ? knew ye not that among the things of my Father I must be ? And they understood not the word which he spake to them.

Passover » Observed at the place designated by God

Deuteronomy 16:5-7

Thou shalt not be able to sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee. But at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover in the evening, as the sun went down, the appointment of thy coming out of Egypt And boil thou and eat in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose in it: and turn in the morning and go to thy tents.

Passover » Observation of, renewed » By hezekiah

2 Chronicles 30:1

And Hezekiah will send to all Israel and Judah, and also he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh to come to the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, to do the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel.

Passover » Penalty for neglecting to observe

Numbers 9:13

And the man who is clean, and was not in the way, and failed to do the passover, that soul was cut off from its people; for he brought not the offering of Jehovah at his appointment, that man shall bear his sin.

Passover » Peter imprisoned at the time of

Acts 12:3

And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added also to take Peter. (They were the days of unleavened bread.)

Passover » Christ called "our passover,"

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Exodus 12:11-13

And so shall ye eat it, your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand: and ye ate it in hasty flight; a passing over to Jehovah.

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