Why is Easter always on different Sundays?

Answer 1

The reason is not biblical it is to do with using the lunar calendar as opposed to the solar calendar.

Easter is a Christian holy period celebrating the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ . Easter Day is the holiest day and celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and is always on a Sunday. The Christian church believed that the promises made to the Jews had now been done away with and been given to christians instead.

This meant they did not want any reminder of Judaism at all. This was difficult to do since Christ was crucified on the Jewish Passover and resurrected 4 days later, but they managed to do it by creating a complicated formula to give variable dates for Easter Day with no connection to Passover. The one thing they could not countenance was the memorial of Jesus' death occurring exactly on the Jewish Passover.

The reason the date for Easter varies is because the Jewish calendar is lunar (that is, based on the moon) while the western christian calendar is solar (that is , based on the sun) so the two calendar systems do not coincide .

The only time 'Easter' is mentioned in The Bible is in Acts 12:4, and that is in only the King James version version: all the others use 'Passover' or 'the festival'.

Act 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Christ was crucified on the Jewish Passover ("Pesach" ) which is always on the 14th day of the Jewish month of 'Nisan' , which happened to be a Wednesday of that particular year. (Christ was not crucified on a Friday as there were twosabbaths that week, not one as the anti-semitic church thought: one was a 'High' sabbath for the 'Feast Of Unleavened Bread ' period and the other was the usual weekly [Saturday] sabbath.)

As Christ was crucified at Passover which happened to be on a Wednesday and resurrected four days later on Sunday, the actual date for Easter Day should always be 4 days after the Jewish Passover.

Answer 2

Easter Sunday is alway on a different Sunday as it is always the Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon date for the year. Easter Sunday, since 326 A.D., is always one of 35 dates March 22 to April 25.

Answer 3

It depends upon the lunar cycle which is not what our solar calendar system is based upon. Easter always is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox (March 21).