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The passover meal remembers when God brought the Hebrews out of Egypt. They were saved by killing a lamb and putting the blood on the door posts of their houses. God brought them out of Egypt into a new life in the promised land. We are saved by the blood of Jesus - the lamb of God. Those who believe are saved out of this life (Egypt) to a new life in Christ- from bondage to freedom. Hope this is helpful.
Jews eat the Passover meal to commemorate what happen to them a long time ago. In the Bible, it explains that the Jews were taken out of Egypt, in a hurry. Their bread did not have a chance to leaven, and so they ate what they call "matzoh" Now Jews have a meal with "matzoh" in it, to commemorate it.
A:In the synoptic gospels, Jesus celebrated the Passover at the same time as all other Jews. The Passover feast they held was to become known as the Last Supper. Mark 14:12-16: "And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him. And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us. And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. "However, the author of John's Gospel moved the date of the Passover in his account, for theological reasons. This is why John does not have a Last Supper narrative, instead merely a normal evening meal after which Jesus washed the feet of the disciples.John 13:1-2: " Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; "AndJohn 19:13-14: "When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! "In summary, the synoptics do say that Jesus and the disciples held the Passover feast at the appropriate time and day. John's Gospel differs by saying that Jesus was crucified before the time of the Passover, but does not describe Jesus and the disciples as celebrating the Passover. There is only a disjunction when any of the synoptic gospels is read with John's Gospel.
The SDA belief on the passover is that it was a ceremony pointing to Jesus. The lamb that was killed and used as a mark to protect the children for Israel's first born from death in Egypt, symbolized Jesus, who was also killed. If we accept Jesus in our lives, he will also protect from eternal death. In the last supper, Jesus gave the outline of how we should keep the passover (we call itcommunion). It no longer points to the first coming of Jesus, but now to His second coming. Read Mark 14 for all the details.
Jesus instituted and celebrated the first communion with His disciples at the passover feast we now refer to as the Last Supper.
The symbolic meaning of the Last Supper is that Christ was showing his disciples how they were to remember him. There were to hold on regular occasions what we now call The Sacrament, done mostly on Sundays. Which included the breaking of bread in remembrance of his body and the drinking of water or unfermented wine in remembrance of the blood he spilt. It is also at this sacred time that we have the opportunity to renew the covenants we have made with him.
Before. He was crucified on a Friday, and the Sabbath is Saturday.John 19:31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
In my knowledge, i think that after palm Sunday Jesus had a last supper (last pass-over meal when Jseus changed bread+wine into body+blood of Jesus) with his disciples which is now known as Holy Thursday. Palm Sunday marks the beginning in many denominations of Holy Week, which commemorates the last week of Jesus' life. The Passover and Jesus' arrest, were on the Thursday night, now observed as Maundy Thursday. His crucifixion, death, and entombment were on Friday (Good Friday), and the Resurrection occurred early on Sunday morning (Easter Sunday).
Easter
Jesus died on Good Friday, 2010 years ago, at around 3:00 pm.
Matthew 26:17 - Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?" [NKJV]
On the evening before his death, Jesus observed his last Passover meal and after the meal, he instituted the 'Last Supper' . Mark 14:17-26; Luke 22:7-39Mark 14:17 &18 says: "After evening had fallen he came with the twelve. And as they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said: "Truly I say to YOU, One of YOU, who is eating with me, will betray me".. . .THEN (after Judas has been dismissed) it continues in verses 22-24 ". . .And as they continued eating, he took a loaf, said a blessing, broke it and gave it to them, and said: "Take it, this means my body." 23 And taking a cup, he offered thanks and gave it to them, and they all drank out of it. 24 And he said to them: "This means my 'blood of the covenant. . ."So they were already eating the Passover first, as was part of the law that Jesus fulfilled, THEN he instituted the NEW covenant, with the passing of wine and bread, which would from then on, be celebrated yearly by his anointed followers, IN PLACE OF the Passover (which had been part of the Law from Moses to the Jewish nation). The Mosaic Law was not ended until AFTER Jesus died, so he would have celebrated the Passover faithfully, as a perfect Jew.(Colossians 2:13&14)(Matthew 5:17)He then passed the wine and bread among his remaining FAITHFUL apostles.Answer:The "last supper" WAS the Passover, which is commanded in the Bible to be observed the day before the "feast day" of unleavened bread:"...the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord..." (Lev.23:5-6)."...He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the Passover, that we may eat..." (Luke 22:8)."...they made ready the Passover. And when the hour was come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. And He said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer..." (verses 13-15).It was at this time that Jesus "changed" the way the Passover was to be observed in the years ahead, with the "bread and wine" symbols:"...THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME..." (verse 19).