Passover

Definition

The annual feast of Israel’s deliverance through the blood of an unblemished lamb, fulfilled in Christ’s sacrifice and the Eucharist.

Exodus 1:1–18:27 — * These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt—each man with his household entered with Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. All the…*
Exodus 12:1–13:16 — * The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘On the tenth day of this month they…*
Exodus 12:4 — *If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people—you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat. *
Exodus 12:5 — *Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. *
John 6:53–57 — Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I…