'Passover' in the Bible
"You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
"Go into the city," He replied, "to a certain man, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'"
The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.
During the meal Jesus took a Passover biscuit, blessed it and broke it. He then gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it: it is my body."
It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.
On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread--the day for killing the Passover lamb--His disciples asked Him, "Where shall we go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
and whatever house he enters, tell the master of the house, 'The Rabbi asks, Where is my room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'
So the disciples went out and came to the city, and found everything just as He had told them; and they got the Passover ready.
Also during the meal He took a Passover biscuit, blessed it, and broke it. He then gave it to them, saying, "Take this, it is my body."
Now His parents used to go up year by year to Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover.
Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
When the day of the Unleavened Bread came--the day for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed--
Jesus sent Peter and John with instructions. "Go," He said, "and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it."
and say to the master of the house, "'The Rabbi asks you, Where is the room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'
So they went and found all as He had told them; and they got the Passover ready.
He said to them, "Earnestly have I longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;
Then, taking a Passover biscuit, He gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is being given on your behalf: this do in remembrance of me."
But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover, many became believers in Him through watching the miracles He performed.
The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.
Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.
But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King of the Jews?"
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!"
Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity)
Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.
He had him arrested and lodged in jail, handing him over to the care of sixteen soldiers; and intended after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.
Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.
Through faith he instituted the Passover, and the sprinkling with blood so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.