'Festival' in the Bible

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

“Not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be rioting among the people.”

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.